Humour category: 17948 books
Failure Is an Option
An Attempted Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
**“Writing this funny requires immense talent.”
—AV Club
H. Jon Benjamin—the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers—helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure.**
Most people would consider H....
Stirring the Pot
My Recipe for Getting What You Want Out of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The View host and New York Times bestselling author Jenny McCarthy is like your favorite friend: honest, open, and oh-so-funny. She also speaks her mind and says what the rest of us are thinking, a characteristic that has won her millions of fans no matter how much...
by Jon Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
‘I loved Jon’s book. It’s even better than the real thing because you can’t hear his voice.’ Michael McIntyre A control freak looks for love (women who leave wet teaspoons in sugar bowls need not apply). ‘I haven’t woken up with a cup of tea by the bed for seven years. It seems such...
by Rob Brydon
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Rob Brydon tells story of his slow ascent to fame and fortune in Small Man in a Book.
A multi-award-winning actor, writer, comedian and presenter known for his warmth, humour and inspired impressions, Rob Brydon has quickly become one of our very favourite entertainers. But there was a time...
by Stewart Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny word! See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed, before your astonished face!
In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and...
Lizard Tales
The Wit and Wisdom of Ron Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The star of TruTV's hit show, Lizard Lick Towing, shares stories of life as a small-town repo man, as well as the "Ron-isms" and "Ron-osophy" he is known for.
Crazier than a sack of rabid weasels?
Country as cornflakes?
Gooder than grits?
You bet he is!
Week after week,...
I, Justine
An Analog Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A one-woman media phenomenon and a leading YouTube influencer takes readers behind the camera, and deep inside her world.
Justine Ezarik has been tech-obsessed since unboxing her family’s first Apple computer. By sixth grade she had built her first website....
Springfield Confidential
Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A "Must" pick by Entertainment Weekly * **An A.V. Club Best Books selection * A "New and Noteworthy" selection by USA Today
In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary,...
How Hard Can It Be?
The World According to Clarkson Volume 4
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
How Hard Can it Be? is the fourth hilarious volume in Jeremy Clarkson's The World According to Clarkson series.
How hard can it be...
To build a power station without upsetting the eco-mentalists? To seek world domination if you've been hit the ugly stick? For the Met Office to get yesterday's...
by Michael Showalter
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
I was at my wit's end. I'd had enough of this job, this life, and my relationship had broken up. Should I eat chocolate, or go to India, or fall in love? Then I had a revelation: Why not do all three, in that order? And so it was that I embarked on a journey that was segmented into three parts and...
Riding the Elephant
A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.
Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he...
Happily Ali After
An Other Fairly True Tales
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
“Hilarious. . . . Her glass isn’t half full—it’s ‘empty and cracked.’”—Entertainment Weekly (the Must List)
Moved by a particularly inspirational tweet one day, Ali Wentworth resolves to live by the pithy maxims she discovers in her feeds. What begins as a sort of self-help...
by Alan Partridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
As seen on This Time with Alan Partridge on BBC One.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Praise for Nomad:
'Funniest book of the year' Sunday Telegraph
'Alan Partridge's Nomad is almost certainly the funniest book ever written' Caitlin Moran
'Sensationally funny. What brilliant writing' Richard Osman
'Sensational'...
by Kevin Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Following on from the New York Times-bestselling My Boring-Ass Life, Kevin Smith is back!
In freewheeling conversations with his friend and producer Scott Mosier (as heard on their top-rated podcast, known as SModcast), we discover — to pick just four random examples of the riches therein...