Humour Comedy category: 17948 books
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...
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...
by Bernie Mac
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2002
"My granddaddy would get mad at all of us. He couldn't just get mad at one of us. 'Ain't nobody got...
You know what? Go to bed! All y'all, go to bed!'
It'd be like two o'clock in the afternoon. 'Go to bed!'"
Bernie Mac, the royal king of the Original Kings of Comedy, is salty and pissed...
Sprinkle Glitter on My Grave
Observations, Rants, and Other Uplifting Thoughts About Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
The star of Bravo’s breakout scripted comedy Odd Mom Out shares her razor-sharp wit and backhanded wisdom in a deeply observed and outrageously funny collection of musings, lists, essays, and outrages.
From her unique lingo (things don’t simply frighten her, they “M. Night Shyamalan her...
by Rob Brydon
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Rob Brydon tells story of his slow ascent to fame and fortune in Small Man in a Book.
A multi-award-winning actor, writer, comedian and presenter known for his warmth, humour and inspired impressions, Rob Brydon has quickly become one of our very favourite entertainers. But there was a time...
Springfield Confidential
Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A "Must" pick by Entertainment Weekly * **An A.V. Club Best Books selection * A "New and Noteworthy" selection by USA Today
In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary,...
by Michael Showalter
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
I was at my wit's end. I'd had enough of this job, this life, and my relationship had broken up. Should I eat chocolate, or go to India, or fall in love? Then I had a revelation: Why not do all three, in that order? And so it was that I embarked on a journey that was segmented into three parts and...
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 Frankie Boyle
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
A free sampler containing the outrageous first chapters from Frankie’s three books My Shit Life So Far, Work! Consume! Die! and Scotland’s Jesus. Perfect for when you want to feel deeply offended. MY SHIT LIFE SO FAR: 'I don't think anyone can have written an autobiography without at some point...
by Rik Mayall
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
In this electrifying autobiography, Rik stands naked in front of his vast legions of fans and disciples and invites them to take communion with the blood he has spilled for them during his thirty year war on show business. He invented alternative comedy with The Young Ones, he brought down the Thatcher...
The Bassoon King
Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Rainn Wilson’s memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life.
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For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character and grew to love the actor who...
Beautiful People
My Family and Other Glamorous Varmints
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
A wickedly funny memoir with echoes of David Sedaris and Augusten Burroughs, Beautiful People (originally published in hardcover as Nasty) is now a BBC comedy hit series from the producer of Ab Fab and The Office.
Proclaimed "the most brilliant, brash thing in type" by Liz Smith,...
My Prizes
An Accounting
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
A gathering of brilliant and viciously funny recollections from one of the twentieth century’s most famous literary enfants terribles.
Written in 1980 but published here for the first time, these texts tell the story of the various farces that developed around the literary prizes Thomas Bernhard...