Comedy

The riveting, megabestselling, beloved and highly acclaimed memoir of a man, a vocation, and an era named one of the ten best nonfiction titles of the year by Time and Entertainment Weekly.In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of standup. In 1981 he quit forever. ...

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middleschool gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.She has seen both these dreams come true.At last, Tina Fey's story ...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man's comingofage, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times USA Today San Francisco Chronicle NPR Esquire Newsday BooklistT...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Comedy, Fiction, Humor lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, California Book Awardwinning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar and unspoken trib...

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“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Comedy, Autobiographies, Fiction, Humor lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

FOREWORD BY SHERYL SANDBERGYou_x0092_ve almost certainly laughed at Scovell_x0092_s jokes_x0097_you just didn_x0092_t know it until now.Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The Simpsons, La...

In this exuberantly praised book a collection of seven pieces on subjects ranging from television to tennis, from the Illinois State Fair to the films of David Lynch, from postmodern literary theory to the supposed fun of traveling aboard a Caribbean luxury cruiseliner David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and ...

This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, thirdperson summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritativelike maybe someone who isn_x0092_t me wrote itbut I soon discovered that I_x0092_m not sneaky enough to pull it off conv...

The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing yearsexcept Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent of V...

Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possiblelike a porcelain dove that will also have sex with youwriter and humorist Lindy West quickly d...

God only knows what possessed Bill Bryson, a reluctant adventurer if ever there was one, to undertake a gruelling hike along the world's longest continuous footpath_x0097_The Appalachian Trail.The 2,000plusmile trail winds through 14 states, stretching along the east coast of the United States, from Georgia to Maine. It snakes through some of the wilde...

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 from ramen with American cheese).Throwing her hardworking Liberian parents for a loop...

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. And his extravagant wit shines brightly indeed in this rollicking collection of short fabulous pieces....

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 names in comedy from the past thirty years_x0097_including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon S...

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. In fact, those who make a career out of entertaining strangers with words are a notoriously intelligent and quirky lot. And boy, do they have some stories. In...

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. Don't miss Norm's new Netflix special, Hitler's Dog, Gossip & Treachery!When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest standup comics of all time, was approached to write a ce...

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, and writer for The Mindy Project.From a young age, Guy Branum always felt a...

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. He's been nothing but hostile since the moment they met and now it feel...

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. So, here is the thing: is it just me or does anyone else find that Adult,hood offers no refuge from the unexpected horrors, peculiar lack of physical coordination and sometimes unexplained nudity, that accompanied childh...

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. The characteristic heart and punchpacking observations are back, but...

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, outrages and mortifying experiences as an outsider growing up in Canada. ...

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. It left a sticky smear on my phone_x0092_s screen when I typed into Google, _x0093_How to find love, sex and happiness._x0094_Charlotte has always been a good girl. But being good is getting boring_x0085_ She_x0092_s not just stuck in a rut _x0096_ ...

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 untrue, fabricated by the illuminating, prodigious imagination of John H...

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 fifty. Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like...

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 scenic lake; and_x0097_perhaps mostly importantly_x0097_the chance to humiliate his ex...

Learn How to Write a Funny Story Can you learn how to write comedy Absolutely_x0097_anyone can.Scott Dikkers will tell you how. He_x0092_s cofounder and longestserving editorinchief of The Onion, the world_x0092_s most popular humor publication, and founder of The Onion Training Center at the Second City in Chicago. He_x0092_s also a #1 bestselling humor author and ...

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. I, Jake Becker, have a reputation for being cold, callous, and intimidating_x0097_and that suits me just fine. In fact, it_x0092_s necessary when I_x0092_m breaking down a ...

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. His aunt and uncle, both worldfamous researchers, travel to the ends of the earth searching for hidden treasure, dodging dangerous robbers a...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Romance, Contemporary, Comedy, Fiction, Teen lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

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. Jeeves makes himself totally indispensable in every way, disentangling the hapless Bertie from scrapes with formidable aunts, madcap g...

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. Held together by her tender and complicated relationship with her grieving...

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 three surefire ways to generate material the 11 kinds of jokes and how to tell them the secret ...

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 EditorinChief Scott Dikkers and The Onion's awardwinning writing staf...

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. Lord Emsworth_x0092_s secretary, the efficient Baxter, is on the alert and determined to discover what is afoot _x0096_ despite the dist...

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. So why has he been shuttered in his apartment for seven days, miserable and depressed He_x0092_ll tell you he has the flu.But we all know that_x0092_s not really...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around NonFiction, Comedy, Fiction, Humor, History lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

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 moment. Their loss. She_x0092_s a good soul in search of honest fun.Josh Im has known Hazel since college, where...