Best Comedy Books

In So Close to Being the Sht, Y_x0092_all Don_x0092_t Even Know, Parks and Recreation star Retta takes us on her notsometeoric rise from roaches to riches (well, rich enough that she can buy $15,000 designer handbags yet scared enough to know she_x0092_s always a heartbeat away…

The first rule of book club: You don't talk about book club.Nashville Legends second baseman Gavin Scott's marriage is in major league trouble. He_x0092_s recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O.

Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in Real Life., "bitches gotta eat" blogger and comedian Samantha Irby turns the seriocomic essay into an art form.

Fran Lebowitz inPublic SpeakingA Martin Scorsese PictureNow an HBO Documentary FilmThe Fran Lebowitz Reader brings together in one volume, with a new preface, two bestsellers, Metropolitan Life and Social Studies, by an "important humorist in the classic tradition" (The New York…

With Cruel Shoes, Steve Martin proves that his humor more than translates to the written page; it excels there. Since he has always written his own material, books are a natural medium for Steve's comic genius.

I_x0092_m awkward_x0097_and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _x0095_ NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE A.V. CLUB _x0095_ Includes new interviews!From the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest…

DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT Every great joke has a punch line, and every great humor writer has an arsenal of experiences, anecdotes, and obsessions that were the inspiration for that humor.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Driving, wild and hilarious" (The Washington Post), here is the incredible "memoir" of the actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran.

In the vein of New York Times bestsellers Why Not Me by Mindy Kaling and We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby, a collection of sidesplitting yet introspective essays by the popular standup comic, Chelsea Lately alum, host of truTV_x0092_s The Talk Show Game Show,…

Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on fake news and invented facts, in 2016 that routine didn't seem as funny to John Hodgman anymore. Everyone is doing it now.

NEMESIS [n]1) A longstanding rival; an archenemy2) A person's undoing3) Joshua TemplemanLucy Hutton, bakerofcakes, exemplary assistant and professional 'nice girl', is waging war. She's got the whole office on her side except for tall, dark and charmless Joshua Templeman.

Well hello to you, dear browser. Now I have your attention it would be rude if I didn't tell you a little about my literary feast.

Sloane Crosley returns to the form that made her a household name in really quite a lot of households: Essays!From the New York Timesbestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out Therea brandnew collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm.

A collection of essays about growing up the daughter of Indian immigrants in Canada, "a land of ice and casual racism," by the cultural observer, Scaachi Koul.In One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, Scaachi deploys her razorsharp humour to share her fears,…

Is this all there is I scraped the last dregs of Caramel Chew Chew ice cream out of the bottom of the tub with my finger and licked it.

The brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller (i.e., a runaway phenomenon in its own rightno, seriously) a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom all of it completely unresearched, completely undocumented and (presumably) completely…

Judy Carter, guru to aspiring comedy writers and standup comics, tells all about the biz of being funny and writing funny in this bright, entertaining, and totally practical guide on how to draw humor from your life and turn it into a career.Do you think you_x0092_re funny Do…

A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated standup comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson.Phoebe Robinson is a standup comic, which means that, often, her everyday experiences become points of comedic fodder.

In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Nobody opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his legendary cult status as a comedy writer, and what it's like to reinvent himself as a noholdsbarred action film asskicker at…

What Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount of fame that will open new avenues of sexual opportunity; the kind of financial comfort that will allow him to spend his life pursuing hobbies such as boating or skeet shooting at his stately home by the ocean or a…

Outrageous, raw, and painfully funny true stories straight from the life of the actor, comedian, and muchloved cast member of The Howard Stern Show_x0097_with a foreword by Howard Stern.When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The Howard Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly…

New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Very Oral History With a New Introduction by the Author "We Killed shines in its details and its anecdotes....Well crafted and entertaining."_x0097_The Boston Globe From live comedy to television and bestseller lists, women rule the…

_x0093_Damn, this book is good._x0094_ _x0097_Jon StewartEmmy Award_x0096_winning writer Adam Resnick began his career at Late Night with David Letterman before honing his chops in movies and cable television, including HBO_x0092_s The Larry Sanders Show.

Learn How to Write a Funny Story Can you learn how to write comedy Absolutely_x0097_anyone can.Scott Dikkers will tell you how.

A knight in tarnished armor is still a knight.When you_x0092_re a defense attorney in Washington, DC, you see firsthand how hard life can be, and that sometimes the only way to survive is to be harder.

Take Gussie FinkNottle, Madeline Bassett, old Pop Bassett, the unscrupulous Stiffy Byng, the Rev., an 18thcentury cowcreamer, a small brown leather covered notebook and mix with a dose of the aged aunt Dahlia and one has a dangerous brew which spells toil and trouble for Bertie…

This funny, actionfilled series is perfect for adventureloving fans of Indiana Jones and James Patterson's Treasure Hunters! Twelveyearold Addison Cooke just wishes something exciting would happen to him.

Bossman opens with a bruising, comic meet-cute and settles into a flirtatious workplace-romance rhythm: lots of banter, escalating attraction, and a few temper flare-ups. Its useful part is light, fast-moving escapism—snappy dialogue and physical chemistry carry most scenes. Limiting elements include familiar genre beats and some contrived misunderstandings, so emotional nuance and realistic consequences get short shrift. Best consumed as a mood read for a guilty-pleasure evening rather than a deep character study.

Meet the inimitable gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves... From the moment Jeeves glides into Bertie Wooster's life and provides him with a magical hangover cure, Bertie begins to wonder how he's ever managed without him.

A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly ShannonAt age four, Molly Shannon's world was shattered when she lost her mother, baby sister, and cousin in a car accident with her father at the wheel.

The definitive comedywriting handbook from one of the genre's most celebrated writers, this easytofollow guide lays out a clear system for creating humor that gets big, milkcomingoutofyournose laughs, reliably and repeatably. You'll learn...

The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with oneofakind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin.Witness the march of history as…

One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impostors. Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice. Now there are two of them _x0096_ both intent on a dangerous enterprise.

Drew Evans is a winner. Handsome and arrogant, he makes multimillion dollar business deals and seduces New York_x0092_s most beautiful women with just a smile. He has loyal friends and an indulgent family.

Tiffy and Leon share a flatTiffy and Leon share a bedTiffy and Leon have never met_x0085_ Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash.

A vivid, anecdote-rich account of a mid-1970s Los Angeles late-night comedy scene, told through club stories and personal dramas. You'll get backstage color, night-to-morning timelines, and the small humiliations and fleeting triumphs that pushed some performers toward bigger stages. What works best is the oral-history texture: it reads like conversations overheard at the bar, full of routine beats, bad nights, and lucky breaks. The chief limitation is an episodic, name-heavy structure that repeats anecdotes and often skirts broader social context or industry analysis. Best read as lively cultural storytelling rather than a tightly argued history.

Hazel Camille Bradford knows she_x0092_s a lot to take_x0097_and frankly, most men aren_x0092_t up to the challenge. If her army of pets and thrill for the absurd don_x0092_t send them running, her lack of filter means she_x0092_ll say exactly the wrong thing in a delicate…

A memoir and manifesto from the comedian, hit podcast host, and star of United Shades of AmericaYou may know W. Kamau Bell from his critically acclaimed hit show on CNN United Shades of America.

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister, Ami, is an eternal champion . . .

The first night after Caroline moves into her fantastic new San Francisco apartment, she realizes she's gaining an intimate knowledge of her new neighbor's nocturnal adventures.