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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
A glimpse into the mind of the fortieth president and the writers and thinkers to whom he turned for advice, inspiration, humor, and hope includes selections of Reagan's own writings as well as his favorite quotations, proverbs, and excerpts from speeches, poetry, and literature.
Publisher
Abrams Image
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Comedy Bang! Bang!: The Podcast: The Book, Scott Aukerman transports readers inside the zany world of the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast. The book features brand-new anecdotes and opinions from the show's wild cast of recurring characters, and matches the show in tone and wackiness, with essays, lists, plays, nods to running bits, and four-color illustrations throughout, helping to bring the zany, satirical, undefinable world of Comedy Bang! Bang!...
Publisher
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A collection of never-before-seen humor pieces-essays, satire, short stories, poetry, cartoons, artwork, and more-from more than 150 of the biggest female comedians today, curated by Amy Solomon, a producer of the hit HBO shows Silicon Valley and Barry--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Showing off their trademark humor and writing chops that have made them a viral sensation, Rebecca Shaw and Ben Kronengold provide a collection of startlingly funny short stories that will keep readers laughing. Naked in the Rideshare is a riotous collection of comedic short stories, bursting with the safe spaces, shrooms dealers, and Notes app apologies that define growing up right now. The essays take a drunken cannonball into this generation's...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Hell hath no fury like an ex-Bible-Belter-turned-New-Yorker. To see the world through comedian and writer Zach Zimmerman's eyes is to be reminded of the many ways in which love, religion, family, sex, money-or often lack thereof-lay bare our most elemental and embarrassing humanness. From meditations on heartbreak to not-so-helpful how-tos, this laugh-and-cry-out-loud essay collection documents one man's navigation through queerness, climbing the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
“A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat.” —Lily Tomlin
“Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known.” —Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice
“Is there a secret to happiness?” asks comedian Paula Poundstone. "I don’t know how or why anyone would keep it a secret....
“Paula Poundstone is the funniest human being I have ever known.” —Peter Sagal, host of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! and author of The Book of Vice
“Is there a secret to happiness?” asks comedian Paula Poundstone. "I don’t know how or why anyone would keep it a secret....
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
With her special brand of humor, Sedaris shows how to make popular crafts, such as crab-claw roach clips, tinfoil balls, and crepe-paper moccasins; how to remember which kind of glue to use with which material; how to create your own craft room and avoid the most common crafting accidents; and, how to cook your own edible crafts, from a Crafty Candle Salad to Sugar Skulls, and many more recipes.
60) Be the bus: The Lost & Profound Wisdom of the Pigeon : collected in one volume for the last time
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A collection of aphorisms from The Pigeon."--
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