General Humour category: 16710 books
1,000 Unforgettable Senior Moments
Of Which We Could Remember Only 254
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
The president who left the nuclear launch codes in a suit at the dry cleaners. The novelist who put the orange juice outside and the kitten in the refrigerator. The Russian general who left home in full military dress . . . minus his pants. The famous sex goddess who blew the same line through 52...
How to Sound Cultured
Master The 250 Names That Intellectuals Love To Drop Into Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
'Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' Stephen Fry
Which philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which novelist drank 50 cups of black coffee every day? What on earth did Simone de Beauvoir see in Jean-Paul Sartre?
How to Sound Cultured offers a wry and yet profoundly...
by Joanna Benecke
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Actor. Director. Musician. Heartthrob. Feminist icon (sort of). There's only one Ryan Gosling. Women want him. Men want to be him. Most Tumblr blogs are about him. No mere Hollywood pretty boy, he's a model of sensitive masculinity, symbolic of everything modern manhood should aspire to. Did you see...
by James Dargan
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
ALMOST THE BEST PUN AND JOKE BOOK EVER is a collection of over 500 puns and jokes that go right across the board, from politics and politicians, to historical figures, general observations and commentary on today's world. One thing's for sure though: you'll be laughing out loud if you don't cringe with embarrassment at their sheer lameness first!
That Dammed Beaver
Canadian Humour, Laughs and Gaffs
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
A unique collection of stories and art: Margaret Atwood, Austin Clarke, Leon Rooke, Priscila Uppal, Jonathan Goldstein, Paul Quarrington, Morley Callaghan, Jacques Ferron, Marsha Boulton, Joe Rosenblatt, Barry Callaghan, Linda Rogers, Steven Hayward, Andrew Borkowski, Helen Marshall, Gloria Sawai,...
Someone has to set a bad example
An Anne Taintor Collection
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
We can't be good all the time, and no one knows it better than Anne Taintor. This generous collection of her most popular artwork includes more than 150 images in categories such as friendship (a real friend will help you hide the body), motherhood (WOW! I get to give birth AND change diapers!), money...
Hitler Saved My Life
WARNING—This book makes jokes about the Third Reich, the Reign of Terror, World War I, cancer, Millard Fillmore, Chernobyl, and features a full-frontal nude photograph of an unattractive man.
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
When advertising legend Jim Riswold is stricken with leukemia and prostate cancer, he quits the business that made him famous to become a “fake artist,” creating a controversial body of work with a controversial cast of characters, from Hitler to Mao to Kim Jong-Il. It was a decision that would...
Capitalism Comes to Mao's Mausoleum
An Indian Goes Around the World - I
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
"I travel, therefore I am - apologies to Descartes for twisting his noble thought." This is how M.P. Prabhakaran explains his passion for travel. In terms of academic qualifications, he has a Ph.D. in Political Science from a prestigious university in America. But his greatest learning experience...
Outdated Advertising
Sexist, Racist, Creepy, and Just Plain Tasteless Ads from a Pre-PC Era
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This outrageous collection of inappropriate ads will have you turning the pages and shaking your head in disbelief.
Outdated Advertising: Memories from a Less-than-PC Era takes a look at print advertising from the mid-1850s through the 1980s with an eye toward ads that were notorious for their sexist,...
by Rick Mercer
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
An all-new collection of furiously funny rants from the most recent seasons of the Rick Mercer Report plus three brilliantly written, previously unpublished pieces by Rick. Illustrated throughout with photos and snatches of dialogue from Rick’s encounters and exploits across Canada.
“[Mercer’s]...
by Denis Norden
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2008
Classic stills from the life of one of Britain's most venerated entertainers. This is the extraordinary life story of comic legend Denis Norden, told in momentary snapshots by the master British comedian himself. Containing reminiscences of a career stretching back to the golden age of the radio,...
Man Fail
Stupid Things Men Do
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
In Man Fail, readers will find a fantastic selection of the side-splitting bloopers, mistakes and misunderstandings that have been boldly uttered by the male sex. Spanning from the rich and famous, to the everyday man on the street and with hilarious anecdotes that defy belief and typify the failings...
by Harry Pope
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Basil Fawlty has reincarnated in Eastbourne as Harry Pope, he enters into a disastrous partnership with a Californian businessman, and buys a 28 bedroom hotel. He employs Polish, not Spanish, staff, blocks the purchase of a £10,000 ornamental fountain for the front garden, and enters into a hate relationship...
by Ellen Stimson
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Living the dream of the endless vacation
“Anyone who has ever dreamed of leaving the city and taking their lives back to nature (and who hasn't?) will find much to contemplate in this warm and hilarious tale of rural misadventure and small town quirk, even if they have never chased a goat...