Humour Comedy category: 17948 books
When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win
Reflections on Looking in the Mirror
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Stand-up comic and comedy writer Carol Leifer faced a critical dilemma and had only two options: either continue sharing her greatest childhood memory (seeing the Beatles at Shea Stadium in 1966) or lie about her age. But the choice soon became clear: “I see now that when you deny your age, you...
How to Be Funny
The One and Only Practical Guide for Every Occasion, Situation, and Disaster (no kidding)
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
An invaluable guide on how to "lighten up" from a distinguished pro who has provided laughs for JAY LENO, BILLY CRYSTAL, STEVE MARTIN, ROBIN WILLIAMS, BRAD GARRETT, WHOOPI GOLDBERG, AND MANY MORE.
Who hasn't wished for the perfect withering comeback line, a clever tension-breaking quip, or...
Best Dating Rules
The Best Girls, #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
A new job. A new city. The same old problem. . . A man who won't take "no" for an answer!Emily Best went to work for her stepfather, and now she's on a mission to prove she's the right woman for the job. There's no time for romance in her life. Not now, and especially not with a player like Spencer. Spencer...
The Death of Cool
From Teenage Rebellion to the Hangover of Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Though technically a memoir, this is more a compendium of hair-whitening bar stories that punch you in the throat until your eyes explode. Many people have watched their friends die and some have been to jail. There are those who have stepped in the ring with professional fighters and been beaten...
Black Man, White House
An Oral History of the Obama Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
New York Times Bestseller (Humor)
"The book everyone is laughing about!"--Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe
From legendary comedian D.L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny send-up of the Obama years, as “told” by the key political players on both sides of the aisle.
What...
How Not to Get Shot
And Other Advice From White People
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FINALIST
"Hilarious yet soul-shaking." —Black Enterprise, a "Must Read Book for 2019"
200 years ago, white people told black folks, “‘I suggest you pick the cotton if you don’t like getting whipped.”...
Girl Logic
The Genius and the Absurdity
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on the secret genius of irrational behavior.
Have you ever been pissed because you're not pretty enough, and then gotten even more pissed that someone didn't find you as pretty...
We Be Big
The Mostly True Story of How Two Kids from Calhoun County, Alabama, Became Rick and Bubba
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2011
If you’ve ever started your day with Rick and Bubba, you know the unmistakable drawl of those two crazy Alabama boys. What you may not know is that they almost weren’t “Rick and Bubba.”
From their glory days of homemade “radio stations,” youthful athletic ambition,...
Cool, Calm & Contentious
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
“This is so well written. [When a book like this] comes along, it’s, like, ‘Thank you!’ What a great way to spend an afternoon, an evening, reading these essays. . . . Absolutely great.”—Jon Stewart
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“[Merrill] Markoe is easily as funny as David Sedaris. She’s capable of manic...
by Steve Allen
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Why Did Steve Allen Cross the Road?
Steve Allen is a legend among comedians and entertainers. He's been playing to audiences on stage, radio, film, and television for more than fifty years, gaining acclaim for his unique wit and energy. Now for the first time, he shares more than a thousand...
Sister Mother Husband Dog
(Etc.)
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Bestselling author Delia Ephron shares a deeply personal collection of stories and essays, anchored by a loving remembrance of her sister Nora.
In Sister Mother Husband Dog, Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of autobiographical essays about life, love,...
A Walk in the Woods
Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2010
A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body.
Back in America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Georgia...
The Longest Date
Life as a Wife
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
The bestselling author of The Between Boyfriends Book and an award-winning writer for Sex and the City and Modern Family takes a hilarious, heartbreaking look at marriage
Cindy Chupack has spent much of her adult life writing about dating and relationships for several hit TV series and as a...
by alex trostanetskiy, vadim kravetsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
"100 of the" series books brings you yet another exciting book on the 100 of the Dumbest Celebrity Quotes. Read this book and many other 100 of the Best, Most, Ugliest, Top, Coolest and more books.