Humour Comedy category: 17948 books
by Demetri Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes a bold, original, and rectangular kind of humor book.
Demetri's first literary foray features longer-form essays and conceptual pieces (such...
Happy Endings
The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted Zilch
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Jim Norton is a pervert
in the truest sense of the word. The physical equivalent of a tall slug, he pays top dollar for massages with happy endings and is fascinated by shitty sitcoms and fat girls. He is also, at times, racially offensive and morally repugnant. He spares no one in his comedy...
by Jim Norton
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
When New York Times bestselling author and comedian Jim Norton isn't paying for massages with happy endings, or pretending to be fooled by transsexuals he picks up, he spends his time wondering what certain people would look like on fire...
What do Heather Mills, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and...
It's Okay to Laugh
(Crying Is Cool Too)
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
“Thank you for the perfect blend of nostalgia-drenched humor, wit, and heartbreak, Nora.” — Mandy Moore
comedy = tragedy + time/rosé
Twenty-seven-year-old Nora McInerny Purmort bounced from boyfriend to dopey “boyfriend” until she met Aaron—a charismatic art director and...
by Eric Idle
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
From Monty Python legend Eric Idle comes this wicked and enthralling comedy
Set during the glorious days of the Bush Empire before they finally invaded and killed irony, The Writer’s Cut follows Stanley Hay, a joke writer. He has a girlfriend, a writing partner and a career going nowhere in particular....
The Chris Farley Show
A Biography in Three Acts
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008
The New York Times bestselling biography of an American comedy legend
After three years of sobriety, Chris Farley's life was at its creative peak until a string of professional disappointments chased him back to drugs and alcohol. He fought hard against them, but it was a fight he would lose...
I Don't Care About Your Band
What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Se nsitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
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In the tradition of Cynthia Heimel and Chelsea Handler, and with the boisterous iconoclasm of Amy Sedaris, Julie Klausner's candid and funny debut I Don't Care About Your Band sheds light on the humiliations we endure to find love--and the lessons...
by Samantha Bee
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Candid, outspoken, laugh-out-loud funny essays from much-loved Samantha Bee, host of TBS's uproarious late-night show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, executive producer and writer of TBS's comedy television series The Detour, and former The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’s Most Senior Correspondent.
In...
F My Life
It's Funny, It's True, Except When It Happens to You
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Today, my boss fired me via text message. I don’t have a text messaging plan. I paid 25 cents to get fired.
Your girlfriend dumped you, your car broke down, your boss passed you up for the big promotion. Life’s not fair, but there is one sure-fire way to ease your pain–laughing at someone...
by Charles M. Sevilla
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1999
In America's courtooms, the verdict is laughter.
Sit back and enjoy a collection of verbatim exchanges from the halls of justice, where defendants and plaintiffs, lawyers and witnesses, juries and judges, collide to produce memorably insane comedy.
The Court: The charge here is theft...
by Neil Pasricha
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
Based on the award-winning 10-million-plus-hit blog 1000 Awesome Things, The Book of Awesome is an international bestselling high five for humanity and a big celebration of life’s little moments.
Sometimes it’s easy to forget the things that make us smile. With a 24/7 news cycle reporting...
Shatner Rules
Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
You love William Shatner.
You admire his many and varied talents.
You appreciate his creativity and willingness to take risks.
You want to learn his master negotiation techniques.
You wish you could hang out with him.
Admit it. You want to BE William Shatner.
And now...you can (almost).
To...
UFOs, JFK, and Elvis
Conspiracies You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Believe
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2009
"I'm not asking you to believe every conspiracy theory you'll find in this book. . . . I didn't write this book to give you all the answers. The Warren Commission did that, and the answers were all wrong. I wrote this book to inspire you to do what the powers that be wish you wouldn't: to question...
Women Are Crazy, Men Are Stupid
The Simple Truth to a Complicated Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
THE REVEALING AND RIP-ROARINGLY FUNNY GUIDE TO MAKING EVERY RELATIONSHIP SMARTER, SANER, AND HAPPIER
It's all very simple. When it comes to women, men are profoundly stupid. And when it comes to men, women—no matter how intelligent or mature—are completely crazy. Based on this groundbreaking...