General Humour category: 16710 books
by Jenny Mollen
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
***A NEW YORK TIMES HUMOR BESTSELLER*
By theauthor of I Like You Just the Way I Am and a frequent Chelsea contributor, an outrageous collection of personal stories about motherhood, responsibility, and other potential disasters**
Jenny Mollen is a writer and actress living in New York....
Where Am I Now?
True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
**"Thoughtfully traces [Mara Wilson's] journey from child actress to Hollywood dropout...Who is she now? She's a writer." —NPR's "Guide To 2016’s Great Reads"
“Growing up, I wanted to be Mara Wilson. Where Am I Now? is a delight.” —Ilana Glazer, cocreator and star...
by Ellie Kemper
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious, refreshing, and inspiring collection of essays “teeming with energy and full of laugh-out-loud moments” (Associated Press).
“A pleasure. Ellie Kemper is the kind of stable, intelligent, funny,...
The Tao of Bill Murray
Real-Life Stories of Joy, Enlightenment, and Party Crashing
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Perfect for the Bill Murray fan in all of us, this epic collection of “Bill Murray stories”—many reported for the first time here—distills a set of guiding principles out of his extraordinary ability to infuse the everyday with surprise, absurdity, and wonder.
No one will ever believe...
No Wonder My Parents Drank
Tales from a Stand-Up Dad
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
YOU’LL NEVER SLEEP IN THIS TOWN AGAIN
From Saturday Night Live to stand-up, from a blockbuster film career to the star of CBS’s hit television show Gary Unmarried, Jay Mohr is one of the funniest people in comedy today. Now, in this down and dirty tale of modern fatherhood, Mohr shares...
by Jane Borden
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Jane Borden is a hybrid too horrifying to exist: a hipster-debutante. She was reared in a propert Southern home in Greensboro, North Carolina, sent to boarding school in Virginia, and then went on to join a sorority in Chapel Hill. She next moved to New York and discovered that none of this grooming...
I Only Roast the Ones I Love
Busting Balls Without Burning Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Jeffrey Ross is one of the world’s most foremost practitioners of insult comedy. Having escaped from his family’s kosher catering business, he spent years in the comedy circuit and mastered his craft of delivering hilarious and often offensive insults. Mixing silliness and sincerity, Ross explains...
by Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The multitalented writers, directors, producers, and actors (as seen on The League, Transparent, and The Mindy Project)share the secrets of their lifelong partnership in this unique memoir.
“A book that anyone will love . . . You can enjoy it even if you have no idea who the Duplass brothers...
Nerd Do Well
A Small Boy's Journey to Becoming a Big Kid
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
The unique life story of one of the most talented and inventive comedians, star of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Paul, Spaced, and Star Trek.
Zombies in North London, death cults in the West Country, the engineering deck of the Enterprise -- actor, comedian, writer, and supergeek Simon Pegg...
Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse
My Life in Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2006
You think I’m overdressed? This is my slip!
No, I’m going to tell you the truth about what I’m wearing.
I used to work as a lampshade in a whorehouse.
I couldn’t get one of the good jobs.
From housewife to humorist, Phyllis Diller made millions laugh for over five decades...
by Stephen Tobolowsky
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
From legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky, comes a collection of memoiristic pieces about life, love, acting, and adventure, told with a beguiling voice and an uncommon talent for storytelling.
The Dangerous Animals Club by Stephen Tobolowsky is a series of stories that form a non-linear...
Lessons from the Prairie
The Surprising Secrets to Happiness, Success, and (Sometimes Just) Survival I Learned on America's Favorite Show
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
"Lessons from the Prairie delivers one belly laugh after another as Melissa tees up an easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide to tackling life's toughest challenges, and making your life happier." - Megyn Kelly
For fans of the beloved TV show Little House on the Prairie, a self-help book...
by Margaret Cho
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Comedian. Icon. TV star. Role model. Trash talker. Fag hag. Gypsy. Tramp. Thief. Margaret Cho displays her numerous sides in this funny, fierce, and honest memoir. As one of the country’s most visible Asian Americans, she has a unique perspective on identity and acceptance. As one of the country’s...
President Me
The America That's in My Head
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Imagine a world where New York Times bestselling author, comedian, actor, television, and podcast host Adam Carolla is the President of the United States. Can’t do it? You don’t have to! Adam has done it for you!
Podcast king Adam Carolla first shared his unique, but always funny world...