Comedy category: 18107 books
by Paul Mooney
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
OTHER COMEDIANS TELL JOKES. PAUL MOONEY TELLS THE TRUTH.
For more than forty years—whether writing for Richard Pryor and Saturday Night Live or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country—Paul Mooney has been provocative, incisive . . . and absolutely hilarious. His comedy...
I Only Roast the Ones I Love
Busting Balls Without Burning Bridges
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Jeffrey Ross is one of the world’s most foremost practitioners of insult comedy. Having escaped from his family’s kosher catering business, he spent years in the comedy circuit and mastered his craft of delivering hilarious and often offensive insults. Mixing silliness and sincerity, Ross explains...
Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse
My Life in Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2006
You think I’m overdressed? This is my slip!
No, I’m going to tell you the truth about what I’m wearing.
I used to work as a lampshade in a whorehouse.
I couldn’t get one of the good jobs.
From housewife to humorist, Phyllis Diller made millions laugh for over five decades...
by Doug Hill, Jeff Weingrad
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
Saturday Night is the intimate history of the original Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman,...
Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
An American icon, Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton is easily acknowledged as one of the greatest filmmakers in early cinema and beyond. His elaborate slapstick made audiences scream with laughter. But, his stone face hid an internal turmoil. In BUSTER KEATON: CUT TO THE CHASE, biographer Marion Meade...
Chasing the Last Laugh
Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
From Richard Zacks, bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain’s late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy—and revived his world-class sense of humor
Mark Twain, the highest-paid...
Road Dog
Life and Reflections from the Road as a Stand-up Comic
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Road Dog is comedian, actor, and writer, Dov Davidoff's unflinching memoir told through reflections of twelve months on the road. Davidoff travels across the country from college campuses to local theaters doing stand-up comedy and telling it like it is. He's been known to wax poetic about everything...
Married to Laughter
A Love Story Featuring Anne Meara
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2000
The current generation knows him as the serenity-seeking Frank Costanza from Seinfeld. An older generation knows him as one-half of the comedy team Stiller and Meara. But, as his memoir, Married to Laughter, reveals, Jerry Stiller has had a lifelong love affair with entertainment.
Growing up during...
Tragedy Plus Time
A Tragi-comic Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
“Inspiring, tragic, and at times heart-rendingly funny.” —People
Unsentimental, unexpectedly funny, and incredibly honest, Tragedy Plus Time is a love letter to every family that has ever felt messy, complicated, or (even momentarily) magnificent.
Meet the Magnificent Cayton-Hollands,...
Groucho Marx
The Comedy of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team, the Marx Brothers, his broad slapstick portrayals elevated by ingenious wordplay and double entendre. In his spirited biography of this beloved American iconoclast, Lee...
Make 'Em Laugh
35 Years of the Comic Strip, the Greatest Comedy Club of All Time!
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
This behind-the-scenes history of the legendary New York City club includes interviews with many top standup comedians.
The Comic Strip on New York’s Second Avenue is a historic landmark as a comedy showcase, and generations of standup comedians have cherished it as a venue that fosters growth...
The Daily Show (The Book)
An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host.**
For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy,...
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell
Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve read about him in the New York Times, which called him “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.” Or maybe from The New Yorker, fawning over his brand of...
Vacationista
A romantic comedy about a breakup, a rebound and lost luggage.
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
A broken heart. A ticket to paradise. A resort full of honeymooners ... the last thing newly single Patience De La Rosa needs if she's to find a candidate for a casual rebound. Her luggage catching a flight to Mauritius instead of Maui doesn't help matters and a maxed out credit card doesn't...