General Humour list 32

Newspaper Blackout

by Austin Kleon
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

“Some of the results are hilarious, some are profound and even unsettling, but they are never bland or boring.” — Ephermerist Newspaper article + sharpie = Newspaper Blackout Poetry: Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs a newspaper and a permanent marker and...

Deeply Grateful & Entirely Unsatisfied

A Book for Anyone Wondering if Life Is Giving You Magical Gifts or Just Messing with You

by Amanda Happé
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018

What does it mean to be vulnerable and defiant at the same time? In Deeply Grateful and Entirely Unsatisfied, author and artist Amanda Happé poses this question with disarming honesty and humor. Her colorful marker drawings and quirky hand-lettered sentiments offer an idiosyncratic take on life's...

Europe Revised

by Irvin S Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018

Mr. Cobb's commentary on traveling in Europe as an American around the turn of the previous century gives an interesting sense of the era, and is always at least mildly amusing. But the real joy of this book is that Cobb is forever side-swiping you with startlingly funny, burst-out-laughing descriptions...

They Used to Call Me Snow White . . . But I Drifted

Women’s Strategic Use of Humor

by Gina Barreca
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013

Published by Viking in 1991 and issued as a paperback through Penguin Books in 1992, Snow White became an instant classic for both academic and general audiences interested in how women use humor and what others (men) think about funny women. Barreca, who draws on the work of scholars, writers, and...

Confessions Of An Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul

by Bill Engleson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017

"Bill Engleson has written a very funny book filled with stories rooted in truth and leavened with affection. The Island (Denman Island, BC) , the people and all that unfolds in between will keep you chuckling as you hang on for the ride. It makes me long to return to Denman." ~ Terry Fallis, two time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.

Wrotten English

A Celebration of Literary Misprints, Mistakes and Mishaps

by Peter Haining
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015

Painstakingly researched and tapping in to the public's insatiable general interest with the written word, Wrotten English contains curious opening lines, fantastic fictions whose titles are too terrible to be true and some of the most suggestive double entendres committed by those who really should know better!

Santa vs. Satan

The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights

by Jake Kalish
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008

“Who would win between . . .” has through the ages been one of man’s most fundamental questions. Sadly, adult responsibilities like “earning a living” and “having a girlfriend” have conspired to make it impossible for men to devote to this issue the scholarship it so deeply deserves....

Rage-In:

Trolls and Tribulations of Modern Life

by Tara Flynn, HeadStuff
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018

The world is a mess and bestselling author and comedian Tara Flynn is raging. Well, sometimes. Mostly she’s shocked, bemused, irreverent and wondering where the kindness went. Depends on the week, really. 'Rage-In' is a collection of essays providing a personal look at our modern world. Written...

Rom Com

by Dina Del Bucchia, Daniel Zomparelli
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

At precisely the cultural moment you were hoping for, a dream team of smart, sexy, brunette, West Coast poets of Italian descent has passionately co-authored an intelligent collection of poetry that both celebrates and capsizes the romantic comedy.From the origin of the genre (It Happened One Night)...

Three Men (not) in a Boat: and most of the time without a dog

by Timothy Finn
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011

Timothy Finns Three Men (Not) in a Boat is a stylish update of a humorous classic. With echoes of Jerome K. Jeromes masterpiece Three Men in a Boat Timothy has introduced new characters, a new plot, new paths to be trodden by fearless men in search of a holiday. But still the hazards that face our modern...

Gervase Phinns Mangled English

A lighthearted look at the mishandling of the English language by the man with the funny name

by Gervase Phinn
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013

Sometimes what we say and write can lead to a great deal of misunderstanding and unintentional humour, as bestselling author and former school inspector Gervase Phinn shows in his book 'Gervase Phinn's Mangled English', a humorous anthology of the mistakes, misprints, malapropisms and misunderstandings...

The A-Z of Stuff

by David Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018

Life is full of trivia. More and more, it seems, every waking minute of our lives is spoken for, by the inconsequential, the irrelevant, the incidental, the positively wasteful, and by a whole host of other stuff that serves no purpose whatsoever other than to distract us from what is really important....

Even

by Nigel Barley
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014

Most people agree that the world should be just but that it simply isn't. Rogues flourish, the good die young and many feel they have not received their due. Unlike the rest of us, the anonymous hero of Even does not just complain about it, he embarks on a voyage of self-discovery, searching both...

Il mondo di Gio, Cris & Ricky

Strisce comiche di vita quotidiana

by Giovanni Beduschi
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 20, 2015

Prendete un papà di nome Gio, poi prendete una mamma di nome Cris, quindi aggiungete un figlio dall’aria sbarazzina di nome Ricky, amante di dinosauri, iguane e similari, e il mix è fatto. All’apparenza potrebbe sembrare una famiglia normale, ma poi, con la lettura, si scoprirà un figlio filosofo...