Humour Comedy category: 17948 books
by Mindy Kaling
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Kaling is] like Tina Fey’s cool little sister. Or perhaps . . . the next Nora Ephron.”—The New York Times
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck–impersonating...
My Life as a Goddess
A Memoir through (Un)Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
“Smart, fast, clever, and funny (As f*ck!)” (Tiffany Haddish), this collection of side-splitting and illuminating essays by the popular stand-up comedian, alum of Chelsea Lately and The Mindy Project, and host of truTV’s Talk Show the Game Show is perfect for fans of the New York Times bestsellers...
by Marc Maron
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
People make a mess.
Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job, surrounded by feral...
Believe Me
A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Izzard is one of the funniest people alive, a talented actor, a sharp cross-dresser, an experienced marathon runner, and a great writer. You will have to read this if only to find out what a jazz chicken is.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer
With his brand...
Girl Walks into a Bar . . .
Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Live star recounts the hilarious adventures and unexpected joy of dating and becoming a mother when she least expected it-at the age of forty-four.
Anyone who saw an episode of Saturday Night Live between 1999 and 2006 knows Rachel Dratch....
Failure Is an Option
An Attempted Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
**“Writing this funny requires immense talent.”
—AV Club
H. Jon Benjamin—the lead voice behind Archer and Bob's Burgers—helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own in a hilarious memoir-ish chronicle of failure.**
Most people would consider H....
by Stewart Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny word! See how jokes work, their inner mechanisms revealed, before your astonished face!
In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and...
Riding the Elephant
A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.
Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he...
How to American
An Immigrant's Guide to Disappointing Your Parents
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
**Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood.
"I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was...
This Is Not Fame
A "From What I Re-Memoir"
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
An unfiltered, unapologetic, hilarious, and sometimes obscene assemblage of tales from the down-and-dirty traveling comedy circuit
Doug Stanhope has been drunkenly stumbling down the back roads and dark alleys of stand-up comedy for over a quarter of a century, roads laden with dank bars, prostitutes,...
Brief Encounters
Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Dick Cavett is back, sharing his reflections and reminiscences about Hollywood legends, American cultural icons, and the absurdities of everyday life
In Brief Encounters, the legendary talk show host Dick Cavett introduces us to the fascinating characters who have crossed his path, from James...
Adolf Hitler
My Part in his Downfall
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies since they...
'Rommel?' 'Gunner Who?'
A Confrontation in the Desert
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic genius, most famous as writer and star of The Goon Show. They have sold over 4.5 million copies since they...
The Humor Code
A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Part road-trip comedy and part social science experiment, a scientist and a journalist “shed fascinating light on what makes us laugh and why” (New York Post).
Two guys. Nineteen experiments. Five continents. 91,000 miles. The Humor Code follows the madcap adventures and oddball experiments...