General Humour category: 16710 books
Nabokov's Favorite Word Is Mauve
What the Numbers Reveal About the Classics, Bestsellers, and Our Own Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Data meets literature in this “enlightening” (The Wall Street Journal), “brilliant” (The Boston Globe), “Nate Silver-esque” (O, The Oprah Magazine) look at what the numbers have to say about our favorite authors and their masterpieces.
There’s a famous piece of writing advice—offered...
by Molly Ivins
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2010
Whether she's writing about redneck politics in her native Texas or the discreet charms of Bushwazee, Molly Ivins in never less than devastatingly honest—and hilarious. Our toughest, funniest, and savviest columnist delivers the goods on:
-Texas politics: "Well, our attorney general...
The Making of the Prefident 1789
The Unauthorized Campaign Biography of George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A “witty, funny and hysterically silly” political parody that dares to take on the Mount Vernon Machine (The New York Times).
Lampooning the modern “campaign insider” books, this book asks: “How is it possible that a man with no military experience becomes a general? He loses more...
by Tony Husband
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2012
Guaranteed to make everybody laugh, and with an introduction by the renowned Stephen Fry, this collection of hilarious cartoons is an insight into the darkly comic world of one of the UK's leading cartoonists, Tony Husband. Tony Husband has created cartoons for many leading publications, including The...
by Stephen Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The enjoyment of working in a variety of Hotels has given me the pleasure of changing in different areas. To meet with a range of Comedians, Actors, Musicans again makes life worth it. The Staff in all the Hotels that I have been involved with, again made life easy as they always worked together,...
by Vanessa Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
A fantastic new sporting humour series with other titles planned for release over the next year. Superb collection of humorous football quotes, stories, anecdotes, jokes and chants, highlighting some of the key characters of the game such as Jose Mourinho, Sir Alex Ferguson, John Motson, Bill Shankly,...
Halsey
Flying High to Success Weird and Interesting Facts on Ashley Nicolette Frangipane!
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
So, in this part right here guys, I’m going to convince you to BUY THIS TRIVIA. Now, if that is not yet convincing enough for you then how about this… so in this trivia, you will learn about a rising pop artist named Ashley Nicolette Frangipane. Nope? Still not convinced? Okay, how about HALSEY?...
by James King
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Updated for Christmas 2013! James King is tired of ‘Step Into Christmas’. He’s tired of ‘All I Want for Christmas is You’. He’s tired – if it’s possible – of ‘Fairytale of New York’. It’s time for a new Christmas Classic. ‘It’s Chriiiistmaaaas’ is a festive journey through...
Searching for Michael Jackson's Nose
And Other Preoccupations of Our Celebrity-Mad Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In his first book, National Post columnist Scott Feschuk offers a hilarious, satirical take on trends in television and our peculiar obsession with the famous, the infamous, and the nature of Tom Cruise’s sexuality. Searching for Michael Jackson’s Nose romps through the birth and the future of...
by Jeremy Dauber
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
**Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award
“Dauber deftly surveys the whole recorded history of Jewish humour.” —Economist**
In a major work of scholarship that explores the funny side of some very serious business (and vice versa), Jeremy Dauber examines the origins of Jewish...
But I Wanted a Pony!
An Anne Taintor Motherhood Collection
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
This new collection of vintage-with-a-twist work by Anne Taintor offers up a fresh serving of Anne's signature hilarious commentary on the joys, challenges, and cocktail hours of motherhood. From the fundamentals (WOW! I get to give birth AND change diapers!) to putting food on the table (you see...
Game Query
The Mind-Stretching Economist Quiz
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
TEST YOURSELF AGAINST THE ECONOMIST'S CHAMPION QUIZ TEAM - THE ONLY QUIZ BOOK YOU NEED THIS CHRISTMAS
General knowledge quizzes are ten a penny. Trust The Economist, which knows both the price and the value of everything, to do something different.
In its first ever quiz book in a 175-year...
Give Your Teacher This Note!
(Parents Say the Funniest Things)
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2006
This book is a collection of endearing, lively, and comical
letters, notes, and comments from students parents.These were
gathered over a period of 30 years, by the author.The purpose of
the book is to show that parents, teachers, and administrators share
a close and familial...
by Ada Adverse
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
’This fun and feminist series of humour books celebrates the sisterhood with a wry smile.’ – Red Have you ever…? A) Questioned how you can be expected to smash and clean the glass ceiling at the same time? B)Seriously considered poisoning your own sandwiches just to stop your colleagues stealing...