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  • I'll Show Myself Out

    Essays on Midlife and Motherhood

    by Jessi Klein ...
    An instant New York Times bestseller, I'll Show Myself Out is the eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed debut You’ll Grow Out of It.Longlisted for the PEN Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay“Sometimes I think about how much bad news there is to tell my kid, the endlessly long, looping CVS receipt scroll of truly terrible things that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • Perfect Sound Whatever

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

    by James Acaster ...
    *The Sunday Times Bestseller*The brand new memoir from James Acaster: cult comedian, bestselling author of Classic Scrapes, undercover cop, receiver of cabbages.PERFECT SOUND WHATEVER is a love letter to the healing power of music, and how one man's obsessive quest saw him defeat the bullshit of one year with the beauty of another. Because that one man is James Acaster, it also includes tales of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

    by James Acaster ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThis is a self-help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is helping you.In 2019, James quit all forms of social media - covering his phone in tar and driving it to a lock-up in Rhyl, before setting up home in a castle he'd built himself called Castle Anti-Net. But when the withdrawal symptoms hit him, he realised in order to stay clean ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller

    by James Acaster ...
    **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much as this one. It was very difficult reading it in public as I looked like a madman' - Richard HerringJames Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five times and has appeared on prime-time TV shows like TASKMASTER, MOCK THE WEEK, LIVE AT THE APOLLO... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Born a Crime

    Stories from a South African Childhood

    by Trevor Noah ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid“Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • An Ideal Husband

    by Oscar Wilde ...
    Series series Plays by Oscar Wilde
    An Ideal Husband is a witty and satirical play written by Oscar Wilde. Set in Victorian England, it centers around the characters of Sir Robert Chiltern, a successful and respected politician, and Mrs. Cheveley, a scheming woman from his past who threatens to ruin his reputation. Sir Robert's seemingly ideal life is turned upside down when Mrs. Cheveley arrives in London with evidence of a past ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • If Love were Oil, I'd be about a Quart Low

    A veteran of the Divorce Wars speaks out ... on growing up (Happiness is a Red-Headed Cheerleader), first love (She Wore Spaghetti, But I Loved Her Anyway), marriage (Panty Hose on the Show Rod and Raisins in the Rice), and divorce (Loneliness and No Clean Underwear). Grizzard even offers advice to the young (Never Kiss a Lady When Her Mouth is Full of Snuff) and how his mother gave him fresh ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Silver Screen Fiend

    Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film

    by Patton Oswalt ...
    The instant New York Times bestseller from author, comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, a “heartfelt and hilarious” (USA TODAY) memoir about coming of age as a performer during the late 1990s while obsessively watching classic films at a legendary theater in Los Angeles. “[Oswalt has] a set of synapses like a pinball machine and a prose style to match” (*TheNew York Times*).**Between 1995 and 1999, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Hollywood, the Dream Factory

    An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers

    Powdermaker's study of the Hollywood film industry was an early example of anthropological research on contemporary American society. Her observations of the tensions between business and art in the film world led her to suggest that the social relations of the filmmaking process significantly affect the content and meaning of movies. Chapters include: Chapter 1 - Habitat and People, Mythical and ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Champ & The Chump

    A heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family

    **WINNER OF BEST SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK AT THE BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2022**'Hard-hitting and hilarious' - James Acaster'Funny, moving and compelling' - Mike CostelloA heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family, based on the acclaimed stage show. For fans of books by Dave Gorman, James Acaster and Danny Wallace, along with boxing tales from the likes of Tyson Fury and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Sicker in the Head

    More Conversations About Life and Comedy

    by Judd Apatow ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An all-new collection of honest, hilarious, and enlightening conversations with some of the most exciting names in comedy—from lifelong comedy nerd Judd Apatow.**“When I need to read an interview with a comedian while in the bathroom, I always turn to Judd Apatow for deeply personal insights into the comedic mind. Place one on your toilet today.”—Amy SchumerONE OF THE ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Little Miss Little Compton

    A Memoir

    by Arden Myrin ...
    Comedian and actress Arden Myrin delivers a hilarious and heartfelt memoir about navigating adulthood and her rise on the comedy scene despite an unconventional upbringing.Arden Myrin is the product of not one, but two hasty decisions. Her paternal grandparents ran off and got married twenty-four hours after they met. Arden's parents did one better -- they married on a dare. Growing up in Arden's ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Improv

    An Oral History of the Comedy Club that Revolutionized Stand-Up

    Featured in the New York Times 2017 "Holiday Gift Guide for Hardcover Fans"Get an insider's oral history of the World's most iconic comedy club, featuring exclusive interviews with today's most hilarious stars recalling their time on stage (and off) at the Improv.In 1963, 30-year-old Budd Friedman—who had recently quit his job as a Boston advertising executive and returned to New York to become a ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The New Comedy Writing Step by Step

    Revised and Updated with Words of Instruction, Encouragement, and Inspiration from Legends of the Comedy Profession

    by Gene Perret ...
    Three-time Emmy Award-winner Gene Perret's ""Comedy Writing Step by Step"" has been the manual for humor writers for 25 years. In this new book, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations, along with many all-important insights into the selling of one's work. Perret covers all aspects of comedy writing ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Creating Comedy Narratives for Stage and Screen

    by Chris Head ...
    This accessible and engaging text covering sketch, sitcom and comedy drama, alongside improvisation and stand-up, brings together a panoply of tools and techniques for creating short and long-form comedy narratives for live performance, TV and online.Referencing a broad range of comedy from both sides of the Atlantic, spanning several decades and including material on contemporary internet ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live

    Saturday Night is the intimate history of the original Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. This is the book that revealed to the world ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jackie Jokes

    The Ultimate Collection

    You asked for it, and here they are! The culmination of Jackie “The Joke Man” Martling’s sixty-nine years of traveling the globe trading jokes with countless incredibly eclectic folks. The only thing more fun than reading Jackie Jokes will be telling these jokes to your friends.You’ll find the wildest, filthiest, and funniest jokes anywhere, handpicked and printed exactly as they’re told on stage ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Stranger in the Mirror

    Toby Temple is a superstar, the world's funniest man. He gets any woman that he wants, but under the superstar image is a lonely man. Jill Castle is a sensuous starlet. She has a dark and mysterious past and has an ambition even greater than Toby's. Together they rule Hollywood. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Yes Please

    by Amy Poehler ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDo you want to get to know the woman we first came to love on Comedy Central's Upright Citizens Brigade? Do you want to spend some time with the lady who made you howl with laughter on Saturday Night Live, and in movies like Baby Mama, Blades of Glory, and They Came Together? Do you find yourself daydreaming about hanging out with the actor behind the brilliant Leslie ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Born Standing Up

    A Comic's Life

    by Steve Martin ...
    The riveting, mega-bestselling, 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 mid-seventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of “why ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Confessions of a Prairie Bitch

    How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated

    Confessions of a Prairie Bitch is Alison Arngrim’s comic memoir of growing up as one of television’s most memorable characters—the devious Nellie Oleson on the hit television show Little House on the Prairie. With behind-the-scenes stories from the set, as well as tales from her bohemian upbringing in West Hollywood and her headline-making advocacy work on behalf of HIV awareness and abused ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • There's a Bug In My Room

    You find a large bug crawling across the floor of your bedroom.  Do you squish it? Do you hide from it? Do you keep it as a pet? What do you do to move that bug from your room?? “There’s A Bug In My Room” teaches children compassion by promoting kindness toward earth's small creatures.  "No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." -Aesop “There’s A Bug In My Room” is a picture book ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

    by Al Franken ...
    From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum -- comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that."Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Robin

    by Dave Itzkoff ...
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICEA SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARA VULTURE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR"A generous, appreciative biography of Robin Williams by a New York Times culture reporter. The author, who had access to Williams and members of the comedian’s family, is an unabashed f... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD