Humour Comedy category: 17948 books
Born Standing Up
A Comic's Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2007
The riveting, mega-bestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.
In the mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert...
Gone Astray
A Collection Of (Sac)Religious Cartoons By Jim
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Church folk often take ourselves too seriously. Jim’s warm-hearted, but edgy, cartoons help us to see the funny side of church life. No one is spared – clergy, organists, parishioners – all get a gentle prod. Good, thought-filled fun, well balanced between the trite and the bite of cartooning...
by Arijit Ghosh
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
Humour and Jokes is a collection of funny jokes popular in India that will make your day. It’s a real stress buster. Jokes are the best medicines to treat melancholy and hypertension and create a glue in social groups. These jokes are for everyone. The beauty of the jokes lies in their brevity.
by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz was born in New York City and raised in New Jersey. Upon graduating college, he worked a few odd jobs until he finally decided to move to New York and pursue comedy full-time. His career was slow to take off. Stewart would perform stand-up comedy gigs while performing small...
Mustache Shenanigans
Making Super Troopers and Other Adventures in Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Director, writer, and actor Jay Chandrasekhar tells the hilarious stories behind his films Super Troopers and Super Troopers 2 (out on 4/20/2018!), the history of his comedy group, Broken Lizard, and everything in between.
Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing,...
A Carlin Home Companion
Growing Up with George
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Truly the voice of a generation, George Carlin gave the world some of the most hysterical and iconic comedy routines of the last fifty years. From the "Seven Dirty Words" to "A Place for My Stuff," to "Religion is Bullshit," he perfected the art of making audiences double...
Comedy FAQs and Answers
How the Stand-up Biz Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
This guide to the world of stand-up comedy, written in easy-to-use Q&A format, provides current and potential comedians with the no-nonsense advice they need for every stage of their careers. Schwensen's lively book features interviews with many of the top names in stand-up-Ray Romano, George Carlin,...
The Second City Unscripted
Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
In 1959, a group of like-minded Chicagoans joined forces to open a hip new venue dedicated to coffee, cigarettes, conversation, and comedy. The result, a nightly cabaret featuring a troupe of inventive young actors skewering everything from politics to popular culture in witty, rapid-fire, improvised...
The Double Act
A History of British Comedy Duos
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The double act has been at the heart of British entertainment for over 150 years, yet there has never been a book detailing how this form of comedy continues to develop. From music hall turns such as Flanagan & Allen, to variety acts who managed to make the transformation to television such as...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
A brief preface explains my motive for writing and a brief summary of essay content. Chapter 1 describes the three basic theories along with a fourth. One: Superiority Theory. We laugh to feel superior, laugh at others. Two: Relief. We have pent up energy that needs to be released, whether from anger,...
by Joseph Chotzner
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2015
The Hebrew Bible rightly deserves to be termed the Book of Books in the world of letters: it is distinguished from other literary productions by the richness of its sentences, its charm of style and diction, its pathos, and also by the flashes of genuine humour, which here and there illuminate its...
by Vincent Thnay
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Of Wit ‘n’ Humour is a compilation of short jokes, humorous, quirky, oxymoronical quotes and witty come-backs – some of which are hilariously funny and at the same time profoundly true.
It All Begins in the Waiting Room
How to drive your doctor crazy while escaping retaliation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
For more than twenty years, Dr. David Rapoport has been writing about the lighter side of medicine in Family Practice and Medical Post magazines. They both devoted their last page to medical humour, with an illustrated story. This book brings together seventy of the popular stories Dr. Rapoport wrote...
by Keith Reed
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
this book was meant to be for light reading whilst flying between airports but don't be put off you can still read it anyway.it is a collection of true short stories, written by a not so short person, who had a short temper in those days brought about by the frustration of the job on the day....