Humour Comedy category: 17948 books
The Mackerel Plaza
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
An irresistible comedy about faith, desire, and middle-class morality from the man described by Kingsley Amis as “the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic”
Pity the poor reverend Andrew Mackerel of the People’s Liberal Church of Avalon, Connecticut. His is...
by Kevin Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
First there was, or were, "Fractured Fairy Tales." Then "Politically Correct Fairy Tales." Then all those "Shrek" movies. Now, just when you thought you'd had about enough, here comes "Bedtime Stories for Insomniacs" to take you where "Once upon a time" never managed to take you before!
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S'Mother
The Story of a Man, His Mom, and the Thousands of Altogether Insane Letters She's Mailed Him
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
And you think your mom is too involved? Meet the mother of all mothers in this “hilarious” memoir (North Shore News).
Adam Chester is the son of a very loving mom, who for almost thirty years has peppered his life with unsolicited advice, news updates, and opinions in the form of thousands...
by Paul Reiser
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In the tradition of the #1 best-seller SeinLanguage, Bantam Books proudly presents the first book by Paul Reiser, television's sharpest, funniest observer of love, marriage and other mysteries of life. A veteran comic performer, Reiser is best-known as the co-creator and star of the highly-rated...
Man vs. Baby
The Chaos and Comedy of Real-Life Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
From a “hero for dads everywhere” (Daily Mirror), a hilarious, insightful, and heartfelt take on parenting based on a viral blog post that Ashton Kutcher called, “one of the best descriptions of fatherhood I’ve ever read.”
One evening, while his three-month-old son Charlie briefly...
Growth Spurts & Growin' Pains
Things I WIsh I Knew, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Comedian Gordon Douglas presents a funny yet enlightening look at his life focusing on the things that helped him grow, and things that caused pain. The book is full of jokes from some of the greatest comedians both past and present, and some of his own hilarious stories. With great honesty, and transparency,...
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...
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...
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 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 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...