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LAUGHTER HEREAFTERThe Comic StrugglesBy Steven Kent McFarlin(The Comic)While studying in the Far East I was taught an ancient Japanese proverb: “Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.” This insight resonated with me until I began to ask myself the question, or rather, the question...

Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies since they...

Karen O’Connor, author of the highly popular Getting’ Old Ain’t for Wimps (more than 260,000 copies sold) tunes into the hilarious, surprising, and sometimes insightful things that grandchildren say.Funny quotes and vignettes celebrate the candid comedy that children bring to our lives. Among...

Remember when The Simpsons was the funniest show on television? The Simpsons is the longest running comedy in history. Gracing our screens since 1989, with over 600 episodes, the show is a cultural phenomenon. Whilst it is still drawing huge ratings numbers, there is no argument that during...

Jerome Stevens makes people laugh for a living. Or he tries to... The stand-up circuit is a world of extremes where money talks, agents slither and hecklers throw mince pies. It's hard to balance the demands of touring with family life - especially when Jerome is a star everywhere except his own home...

Laughter is as essential for us as breathing is. The life becomes a big boredom without humour. Whatever be the merits of today’s busy and hectic life, it certainly has taken away laughter from our lives. Mental breakdowns we see around are proofs of it. This ‘Jokes E-book’ of ours is an effort...

Have you ever been in a bar and overheard some half-drunk telling what sounded like a pretty amazing or perhaps humorous story? Or eavesdropped on some loudmouth at another table in a restaurant pontificating about the state of the world? If you secretly enjoyed those experiences,...

One Leg Too Few will feature an extensive range of fresh interviews, previously unpublished archive material and a wealth of information about the most creative (and explosive) double act that British comedy has ever produced. One Leg Too Few is a book about an extraordinary relationship: a...

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women’s Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever. A Book For Her details Christie’s twelve years of anonymous toil in the bowels of stand-up comedy and the sudden...

Ellie Somerset's high-flying job as an advertising copywriter is hard work, but she's got it under control. Her sexy, devil-may-care new boss, on the other hand? She'll try her best...A perfect romantic comedy for fans of Holly Martin and Cathy Bramley. Ellie Somerset loves her career-obsessed...

Most scholarly writing about Joyces Ulysses has concentrated on its parallels with Homer''s Odyssey, Catholic theology, Dublins streets, Shakespearean references (especially Hamlet} , all of which, and much more, Joyce included in his novel but emphasizing the interpretation of these overlays to the...

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)...

"A comedy of errors and mistaken identities, funny, warm and really entertaining." ~Kumotteiru Good Humor Abounds When the Ice Cream Man Falls for His Suspect Divorcee Jenny Lake suspects the new ice cream man, Nick Barnett, is selling more than bompops off his truck. The neighbors...

A bittersweet box of comedy bon-bons by the sometimes angry, but always hilarious A.J. Axline. If comedy is a banquet, then this collection is a surreal dream diner filled with tasty bite-sized treats like, "My uncle was a lot like Galileo: reviled by the church, and under house arrest." The perfect book for reading in-between meals!