Comedy category: 18107 books
by Miles Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
A comic novel about the meaning of life and the end of the world. And dogs.
When Charlie wakes in the middle of the night to discover an alien in his house, he is more than a little alarmed. But that fades into insignificance when the alien tells him that a) it is the end of the world, and b) he has...
Laugh Off
The Comedy Showdown Between Real Life and the Pros
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Truth, as any good reporter knows, is stranger than fiction. It's often funnier as well. Bob Fenster provides proof of that in his latest hilarious collection,Each Laugh Off chapter presents a collection of true-life anecdotes and professional comic material covering subjects such as funny...
New Jokes for Stand-up Comedians 2014
A witty joke book that just about fits in a Kobo!
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2014
A brilliant book for budding stand up comedians, or for entertaining family and friends. One liners that will prove you to be a laugh a minute! Be warned though as it is adult humor.... Examples - How can you tell when a salesman is lying? When his lips are moving. - Wonder Woman hasn't really got...
Does Santa Exist?
A Philosophical Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa—from a co–executive producer of The Big Bang Theory
Emmy award–winning comedy writer and philosophy scholar Eric Kaplan brilliantly turns a search for the truth about Santa into a laugh-out-loud metaphysical romp. Surveying...
Yo' Mama Is So...
892 Insults, Comebacks, Putdowns, and Wisecracks About Yo' Whole Family!
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2011
It's everyone's favorite form of insult comedy (as seen on MTV!)—hundreds of crushingly funny one-liners about "yo' mama"—and all yo' other relatives—sure to shut people’s mouths or make them howl with laughter.
Yo' mama is so fat, when her beeper goes off, people think she’s...
Nice Try
Stories of Best Intentions and Mixed Results
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2019
Emmy-Award winning writer and comedian Josh Gondelman’s collection of personal stories of best intentions and mixed results.
Josh Gondelman knows a thing or two about trying—and failing. The Emmy Award-winning stand-up comic—dubbed a “pathological sweetheart” by the New York Observer—is...
CHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY
Cultureshocking News : A guide to Chinese etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
CHINA MOST MISBEHAVED COUNTRY - A guide to Chinese etiquette
A comedy complement to the unconventional CHINA BEST BEHAVED COUNTRY, this guide to Chinese etiquette goes pop and punk with stereotypes, images and the fear of using them both. It offers you concrete scenarios in colorful anecdotes....
Dispatches Volume One
What Men Don’t Tell Women; One Fell Soup; and Camels Are Easy, Comedy’s Hard
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
Laugh-out-loud observations from “America’s foremost humorist” (Chicago Tribune).
What Men Don’t Tell Women: Well, that’s just for starters. Roy Blount Jr. realized that nearly all of his writing involved things people don’t tell people: what Southerners don’t tell Northerners, what...
by Jack R. Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Slamming doors, near misses and comic mayhem are just the beginning of a honeymoon mix up between the beautiful star of the number one rated TV sitcom, “The Last Virgin From Las Vegas,” her handsome, skirt chasing co-star, and the brides ex-jock bridegroom.
To celebrate the taping of the...
by A. E. W. Mason
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
A comedy in three acts
by Jan McInnis
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
If you’ve ever thought about using humor in a speech, sales letter, blog, vlog, or even casual conversation but stopped because you had no idea where to start looking for the funny, then this book is for you! And no, you don’t have to spend hours trying to find the humor. This quick guide to finding...
by Amnesty International
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Back in the day, if you wanted to raise money you stood on street corner with a tin and a smile. That is until Mr John Cleese rounded up a few friends in 1976 for Amnesty International's first fundraising show, 'A Poke In The Eye (With A Sharp Stick)'. Since then, Amnesty has produced a dozen Secret...
by Bruce Jay Friedman
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Oscar-nominated screenwriter and accomplished playwright Bruce Jay Friedman is back with a compilation of some of his selected works. With sharp, black comedy and a punch of wit, his plays have delighted audiences since the 1960s and earned him rave reviews from The New York Times and The New Yorker....
by Ethan Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current...