Comedy category: 18107 books
Hell Is Other Parents
And Other Tales of Maternal Combustion
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
I read No Exit in my early twenties, and I remember thinking hell might very well be other people, okay, sure, but under what far-fetched conditions would anyone ever actually be trapped forever in the company of strangers with no sleep or means of escape?
Then I became a parent.
From...
by Spike Milligan
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Spike Milligan's letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote . . .
Collected here for the first time are the funniest, rudest and most revealing of them - most of which have never been seen before - from one of the greatest comics of the twentieth century to some of its most famous...
by Deric Longden
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2011
'A lovely read.' - Good Housekeeping.
'You know, Deric - ten minutes of this rain will do more good in half an hour than a fortnight of ordinary rain in a month.'
Deric Longden's mum was a wonderfully endearing, eccentric lady whose passions ranged from pot plants and her beloved...
The Illustrated Dictionary of Snark
A Snide, Sarcastic Guide to Verbal Sparring, Comebacks, Irony, Insults, and Much More
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
What do Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, H. L. Mencken, Oscar Wilde, Robert Benchley, George Bernard Shaw, Jules Feiffer, Bill Hicks, Bill Maher, Phyllis Diller, Édith Piaf, W. C. Fields, Mark Twain, Voltaire, Charles Bukowski, and countless others have in common?
Not a thing, other than each...
Life Around The Gnat Line
Reflections of a Small Town Girl
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Growing up as the only daughter and eldest child of five to a Navy Chief Petty Officer may have warped author Johnnie W. Lewis more than she realizes at times. But, as laughter is the best medicine, she uses her finely honed sense of humor to tell tales of nostalgia, childhood with younger...
by Leslie Jordan
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
A hilarious romp from small-town USA to the pink carpet of Hollywood with the beloved Emmy-winning actor, playwright, and gay icon
Leslie Jordan is a small man with a giant propensity for scene stealing. Best known for his bravura recurring role as Karen's nemesis, Beverley Leslie, on Will...
by Margaret Radisich Sleasman
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
The series of Twenty Funny Stories are made up of twenty short, humorous stories per book in the similar vein of flash fiction only these are flash funny.
From a simple smile to hysterical laughter, that is what this book sets out to give you. The author draws on various family, friends...
by Mike Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
The original Smart Aleck Chronicles was published to little, if any notice in 2007. As noted in the preface to that volume, it had neither plot or identifiable structure, its intended purpose being to present a series of entertainments on a wide range of ridiculous activities that constitute everyday...
by S. L. Varnado
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2008
In this comic account of his familys misadventures during the Depression of the 1930s, author S. L. Varnado proves the truth of Mark Twains observation that the essence of comedy is tragedy. Contending that the Depression was not the gloomy period portrayed by historians, Varnado turns the spotlight...
A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean
A Grump in Paradise Discovers that Anyplace it's Legal to Carry a Machete is Comedy Just Waiting to
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
"If you look at a map, you will see that the island chain known as the Caribbean, or, to confuse you, the West Indies, lies between Florida and South America and resembles a string of gems or possibly drool." And so begins author Gary Buslik's tale of tropical adventure. Each chapter of this often hilarious...
Parentally Incorrect
True Tales by Real Moms About the F**ked-Up Things Their Kids Have Done
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
For over four years, Ferm and Tee have been performing to sold-out audiences across the country. The Pump and Dump Show is a fun and rowdy evening of comedy, singing, games, prizes, drinking, cursing and commiseration, with a clear and universal theme: Parenting is screwed up and hilarious, and we're...
by Ed Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Finally, a book to bring you a smile, guaranteed! Laughing at Life is a col- lection of Ed Kaiser’s best or most entertaining stories to date. This is the perfect gift for someone who needs a chuckle or a few smiles, which is just about everybody you know.
by Grant Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
My mate told me that I just don’t understand irony.
Which was ironic because we were at a bus stop at the time.
A dyslexic man walks into a bra.
An onion just told me a joke.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
A priest, a rabbi and a blind man walk into a...
Life-abet
An A to Z of Existence
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
With 35,000 plus followers on Twitter and regular spots on media websites, including the Huffington Post, The Poke and Buzzfeed, 28 year old Aaron Gillies aka @TechnicallyRon is already an established 'voice of a generation' with his popular, sharp and precisioned brand of visual comedy satire. Firmly...