Humour Comedy category: 17948 books
Comic Genius
Portraits of Funny People
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This star-studded tribute to the kings and queens of comedy draws together such legendary names as Steve Martin, Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Eddie Murphy, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, and many more. Granted extraordinary access, photographer Matt Hoyle has captured his subjects in portraits that are...
This Might Get a Little Heavy
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
There was a time when Ralphie May was one of the biggest standup comedians in the country, both by ticket sales and by tonnage. While some things changed—Ralphie lost half his body weight—others did not: he will be remembered as one of the most successful comics of his time. Completed just months...
by Marcus Berkmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they want, they take that freedom and more, and the result is original, provocative, often very funny, sometimes...
Medium-Sized Town, Fairly Big Story – Hilarious Stories from Ireland
The stories that made the headlines in Ireland's local newspapers … and nowhere else
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Only in Ireland – the funniest, wildest and most absurd stories from Ireland’s local newspapers
For anyone with a sense of humour and a taste for the absurd, here are the best of the unique, hilarious stories from towns and villages the length and breadth of the country that make the headlines...
by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
John William Ferrell was born and raised in a sleepy suburb of Irvine, California. Although the eldest son of Roy Lee Farrell Jr., keyboardist for The Righteous Brothers, Ferrell describes his childhood as painfully normal.
After graduating from the University of Southern California with...
by Christopher Davies
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
You have read the back pages here Christopher Davies tells the stories behind the stories. Recounting the tales of his 40 years as a sports reporter in places as diverse as Albania, Nigeria, Malaysia, Colombia, Japan, New York…and even the Vatican which he visited with the Republic of Ireland squad...
Chill Bill
The Lighter Side of Being a Cop
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
I want to set the record straight: Police officers are not the dark, humourless souls you see on TV and in the movies. I should know; I’m an ex Metropolitan (London) Police Officer. Yes, police work is stressful and dangerous. Police men and women see and do things that would make your hair stand on...
by Pierre Louis Duchartre
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
The roots of the Italian commedia dell’arte stretch back to the Atellanae Fabulae, popular farces of ancient Rome. Modern descendants can be found in the antics of a comic like Charles Chaplin. But as an institution it was unique — a perfected theater of improvisation where gifted actors created...
Anecdotal Humour
Depicting Reality in Every Day Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Contained in this book are 110 anecdotes covering many aspects of contemporary life on non-fiction level. The anecdotes are real life situations which the author has gone through or witnessed or heard or imagined.
The Haunted Smile
The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength and soul from the comic genius of Jewish performers and writers. An incomplete listing of names makes...
by Zac Eaton
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Audiobook Included!Learn English Laughing! With "Extremely Funny Stories" by Zac Eaton you will learn English and get as up-close as you can to the famous ironic, black English humour. Warning: "Extremely Funny Stories" can be addictive! The running Series of Stories is a "must-have" for every...
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions and widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed...
From the Bottom Drawer of: Alan Zweibel
The Prize, The Ride Home, Sexting with Alan Dershowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Alan Zweibel dusts off some hilarious material written years ago that stand the test of time. An original Saturday Night Live writer, award winning author and playwright, Zweibel releases three never before published short stories: ''The Prize'', ''The Ride Home'', and ''Sexting with Alan Dershowitz''...
The Runaway Bride
Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2002
In the 1934 classic It Happened One Night, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark Gable. The new brand of movies following in the wake of Capra's kooky masterpiece-and the women starring...