Comedy category: 18107 books

Coming to grips with a life-long addiction to brightly colored drinks with umbrellas is just one of the things Amazon.com best-selling author Barton Grover Howe addresses in his latest compilation of newspaper humor columns. Among the highlights: advice to Madison Avenue on how to reach men (“Remember:...

HECKLE: NOTES FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY is the first real authoritative and comprehensive look at heckling. HECKLE covers the history of heckling and then takes the reader on a journey through sport, politics, and entertainment. Written in a humorous and lively style, this book is for those of us in the...

They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music, food co-ops, and vintage T-shirts make them weak in the knees. They believe they’re...

This book is about a collection of 100 funniest names in America in which parents should never consider naming there children. Not only does this book list funny names, but it also comments on them. Imagine funny names that you have heard in many blockbuster movies. People just can’t imagine how...

His mother's last word was his name. His father's was "Wonderful." Together they inspired the title for this true story of love and redemption. Bob Morris was always the entertainer in his family, but not always a perfect son. When he finds his parents approaching the end of their...

It begins with refugee status in New Jersey, trapped amidst crunchy toilet paper and blowhard New Yorkers, before moving on to the worst disaster never to strike the Oregon Coast. It must be time to get "Beach Slapped" again, with Amazon bestseller Barton Grover Howe. With everything from...

In his riotous debut collection, Ant Farm, Simon Rich found humor in some of life’s most desperate situations. Now this former editor of The Harvard Lampoon and current writer for Saturday Night Live has returned to mine more comedy from our hopelessly terrifying world. In the nostalgic opening...

T. Duren Jones gets out into the wilderness as often as possible—camping, fishing, hiking, desert trail trekking and “bagging” peaks—and does he have stories to tell! He’s hiked hundreds of trails, completed the nearly 500 miles of the Colorado Trail, and has summited all 54 of Colorado’s...

A huge collection of the world's best jokes that take a minute each to tell. Be instantly popular by using these jokes on colleagues and friends, just choose wise jokes that don't offend of course! Here are a few jokes, out of hundreds jam-packed in this book. A farmer named Muldoon lived alone...

Everyone has a dump, a poo, a number two, at least once a day, throughout their life. But do you really know much about your poop? Everything you've ever wanted to know about poop is detailed in this shite book. From serious scientific studies to hilarious shite jokes, it's...

In I See Life Through Rosé-Colored Glasses, the bestselling mother/daughter pair is back with another hilarious and heartfelt collection of essays about the possibilities and pitfalls of everyday life. The New York Times bestselling mother daughter duo are back with more hilarious, witty,...

The hours are inhumane. Thoracic surgeon: "Never stand when you can sit. Never sit when you can lie down. Never lie down when you can sleep." Orthopedic surgery resident: "We do 72 hours on call on the weekends...but if you just accept that you'll have no life for five years,...

Two hundred and sixty pages of serious thoughts presented in the form of standard comedy A deceptively thoughtful reflection on current affairs affecting African development and identity There is no other single volume as panoramic and down-to-earth on the African situation A must for anyone who cares...

Usually, change occurs gradually, but there are times when our entire world is altered in the time it takes to say, ‘unpredictability’. The first day I heard the words Multiple Sclerosis associated with myself, I was afraid, shocked and confused. I was in perfect health and in shape, seemingly...