Humour Comedy category: 17948 books

In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current...

Ronnie Barker has long been known as one of Britain’s greatest comedy performers. But he was also responsible for writing much of the material he performed, often hiding the fact from the public by using a number of pen names. Showcasing the complete work of a true comic icon, All I Ever Wrote is...

From the co-writer of the record-breaking BBC3 sitcom, Bad Education. 'Doctor, doctor, what do you call a book about comedy that tries to be funny, argumentative, wide-ranging, silly, weirdly personal and fairly well-researched?' 'Doomed to failure.' Bullets are violent. Jokes are violent. Can either...

Le rire est aussi essentiel pour nous que la respiration. La vie devient un gros ennui sans humour. Quels que soient les mérites de la vie occupée et mouvementée d'aujourd'hui, il a certainement enlevé rire de nos vies. Dépressions nerveuses que nous voyons autour sont des preuves de cela. Blagues...

One of the things that will happen to all of us, if we are lucky, is that we will grow old. In Old Fogies, Unite!, author, Sam Almond, takes a humorous and witty look at what happens if you are lucky enough to reach the age of 90 and beyond. In the introduction, and having reached the grand age of...

Funny Business: management unmasked is an exposé of management as it is practiced in business, government and the non-profit sector. Keywords are explained through humour, making them better understood than a library of management textbooks. Management theories and applications are...

Le rire est aussi essentiel pour nous que la respiration. La vie devient un ennui important sans humour. Quels que soient les mérites de la vie occupée et mouvementée d’aujourd’hui, il a certainement enlevé le rire de nos vies. Dépressions nerveuses que nous voyons autour sont des preuves...

125+ Funny Jokes: Funny Jokes for Kids! The Joke King, Johnny B. Laughing... "The Online King of Comedy" This funny joke book is excellent for long road trips, waiting rooms and reading aloud at home! The Joke King is back with another hilarious joke book full of funny,...

A poet who has everyone smiling should write more than just poetry. And so, in order to keep everyone in stitches, he wrote a joke book with a thousand and one laughs! Unlike Vazqueztells previous books, TRUTH, COMEDY & POETRY for ALL and THE V-FILES: The Truth Is In Here, which are filled with...

Comedians really want to make us cry. The best reaction they can hope to elicit is tears - laughter, sure, but it’s the tears they’re after. Like almost every other human emotion, there is an emoji depicting this phenomenon online: a round yellow face with an absurdly broad, open smile, eyebrows...

Es un fenómeno que se ha extendido por cafés, pequeños clubs y teatros. Conocido como Stand-Up Comedy, tiene cada vez más y más público. Y es que el monólogo cómico solo precisa de un micrófono, un guion sólido y una cierta base técnica. Que el público ría y pase un buen rato, de eso...

Le rire est aussi essentiel pour nous que la respiration. La vie devient un gros ennui sans humour. Quels que soient les mérites de la vie occupée et mouvementée d'aujourd'hui, il a certainement enlevé rire de nos vies. Dépressions nerveuses que nous voyons autour sont des preuves de cela. Blagues...

The funniest catalog in America. Guaranteed. Let award-winning comedy troupe Kasper Hauser transport you into the sublime universe that is SkyMaul, where Banana-ganizers and Reality-Canceling Headphones coexist with Crack Pipe Chess Sets and Llamacycles. More than just a catalog parody, SkyMaul...

"A howlingly funny parody. … The copy for the fake products is pitch perfect. I wish the Camping Coma Pills were really for sale - I'd take them." —BoingBoing.com The towering sequel to a "comedy classic" (Austin Chronicle), SkyMaul 2 picks up where its "brilliantly funny"...