General Humour category: 16710 books
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...
How to American
An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
**Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood.
"I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was...
I Know What I'm Doing -- and Other Lies I Tell Myself
Dispatches from a Life Under Construction
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
New York Times bestselling author and stand-up comedian Jen Kirkman delivers a hilarious, candid memoir about marriage, divorce, sex, turning forty, and still not quite having life figured out.
Jen Kirkman wants to be the voice in your head that says, Hey, you’re okay. Even if you sometimes...
by Pete Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of stand-up stand-out, podcast king, and HBO superstar Pete Holmes.
Pete Holmes is a sold-out-every-night stand-up comedian with two...
The Big Bad Book of Bill Murray
A Critical Appreciation of the World's Finest Actor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The New York Times Best Seller.
Part biography, part critical appreciation, part love letter, and all fun, this enormous full-color volume, packed with color film stills and behind-the-scenes photography, chronicles every Murray performance in loving detail, recounting all the milestones, legendary...
How I Slept My Way to the Middle
Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
How I Slept My Way to the Middle winningly combines never-before-heard stories featuring A-list entertainers with fan favorites and Kevin’s own thoughts about how he made it. He turned down his first invitation to do stand-up on The Tonight Show because he knew that he’d make a bigger impact if...
Permanently Suspended
The Rise and Fall... and Rise Again of Radio's Most Notorious Shock Jock
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Today, Anthony Cumia is the co-host of the wildly popular “Anthony Cumia Show,” which live-streams to a huge following of paid subscribers; however, Anthony is most well-known from the legendary, nationally syndicated “Opie and Anthony Show.” Permanently Suspended is an all-access pass to...
by Frankie Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Brace yourself for Frankie’s novel, he’s more outspoken and brilliantly inappropriate than ever. There are fears that this year could see the start of a double-dip recession, or worse still a double-dip-with-misery-sprinkles and f**k-where’s-my-job?-sauce. Why not chuckle into the howling void...
by John Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
If you’re a man of a certain age you’ll know there comes a point in life when getting a sports car and over-analysing your contribution to society sounds like a really good idea. With a good job in sales and marketing and a nice house in Manchester that he shared with his wife and kids, John Bishop...
by Richard Webber
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
Ronnie Barker was one of our most respected and best-loved comedy actors and here, in this fascinating biography, Richard Webber delves deep in to the heart of Barker's life and career, peppering his narrative with original and incisive memories from some of Barker's closest contemporaries, including...
As I Was Saying . . .
The World According to Clarkson Volume 6
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
As I Was Saying... is the seventh book in Jeremy Clarkson's best-selling The World According to Clarkson series.
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Crikey, the world according to Clarkson's been a funny old place of late . . .
For a while, Jeremy could be found in his normal position as the tallest man on British television but,...