Humour Comedy category: 17948 books

On a sunny morning in June, the dean of St Swithan’s Hospital Medical School is struggling to avoid hypocrisy as he writes the obituary for his fearsome sparring partner, Sir Lancelot Spratt. Yet far from being a funereal and moribund tale, Doctor on the Brain is a fast-moving, hilarious comedy...

Biff America is a wonderfully funny mix of Andy Rooney and Garrison Keillor.From low-flow toilets to prostate pride, knee surgery to avalanche fatalities, gay marriage to schoolyard bullies, Biff America poignantly writes what the American people need to know. Through it all, Biff America has...

For those wondering how they came to be, why there's something rather than nothing and why an infinite number of birds would have to be Brazilian birds, ex-priest Frånk Non's opus, "Am: A Hare-brained Assault on the Godhead from the Portals of Existence to the Foothills of Infinity," offers theories...

There are thousands of wives' tales we hear at random times, especially when we are young, and we tend to believe them as adults, and pass them on again to children... an endless cycle of false facts being passed through generations.  This book puts a stop to this! We know people offer...

A comedy dictionary of new and bizarre future words. About the Author A very multi-talented man, Jay has been writing since a very young age. In addition to being a poet, painter, wordsmith and actor, he enjoys stock market technical analysis and currently works for a premier mortgage...

It’s exhausting, being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the post-colonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife...

Back in the golden age of humor books (late 1920s–early 1950s), when wits of the pantheon like Robert Benchley, James Thurber, and S.J. Perelman were producing their signature works, there was another singular satirist who more than held his own with such fast company: Will Cuppy (1884–1949)....

This is Limmy’s second book. It’s a whole load of new, odd, and hilariously grim short stories. Tom is in a soft play with his daughters. He’s bored. He’s so bored he can move things with his mind. A man fills up a mate’s biscuit tin without ever telling him, to see what happens. Maggie’s...

What do you even call the fourth book in a series? If you like tongue in cheek and ironic British humour, then this book has it in spades... Kev & Steve are back for the fourth instalment in the Best Thing From series with a new collection of irreverent anecdotes, stories and advice...

SAG working actor and comedy author Denny Dormody takes you along. Along to: Movie sets. TV shoots. Auditions. A-list insightful conversations to die for. Conversations with: Icons past: Jeff Corey, Lew Wasserman, Gregory Peck and Icons present; Directors David Fincher, Clint Eastwood and Kevin Costner....

You'll be behind the scenes of movie sets like Spiderman 2012 in 3-D, Ayn Rand's long-awaited epic Atlas Shrugged, Public Enemies, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Angels & Demons, and on TV sets like Law & Order LA, NCIS-Los Angeles, Dexter, Justified, Entourage, The Office, HBO's Luck...

You have endless choices...but few real options. Hungover and stuck at a job you hate, will you show up for your big presentation, or duck out with Debby, the HR rep with an FDR fetish? Play the weird lump on your back for office-wide sympathy, or dive into an internet spiral that can only...

"Wow! Get ready to learn more than Urban Dictionary could ever possibly teach you. The chapter on Furries is one of the most original and hilarious things I've ever read! I dare you not to laugh out loud!" -Robin O'Bryant, New York Times bestselling author of Ketchup is a Vegetable and Other...

Jane Curtin of “Saturday Night Live” did not want to talk about her high school days on the “Tonight Show”, but author Carol Olivieri Schulte has taken the plunge and done just that, in her latest book, 600 Crises Or Growing Up Italian. What’s the connection? Jane and Carol were co-boarders...