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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"When Theo Potiris performed his stand-up comedy act on Conan at thirty, he thought he'd hit it big. But six years later, he's still spending his days working at his parents' grocery store, bicycling to the local open mic, and writing letters to a girlfriend who lives halfway around the world. Theo's desperate for a break. But when he brings his thirteen-year-old niece to the horse track to place a birthday bet-a Potiris family tradition-the goddess...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Superstar, comedian and Hollywood box-office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include, the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and listeners have the funniest, most heartfelt, and most inspirational memoir on survival, success, and the importance of believing in themselves since Old Yeller.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
A fresh, hilarious, and relatable collection of essays about everything from motherhood and marriage to sobriety and work-life balance (or imbalance). As a busy mom with a newborn and a toddler, viral sensation Laura Clery has plenty to say about the ups and downs of pregnancy, childbirth, and being the best mom she can be while also balancing career success, sobriety, marriage, and creativity. With her engaging and witty voice, she pulls back the...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Barber shares her raucous, hilarious, and outspoken opinions on life, unwanted gas, and how to rock a sexy scar. Part memoir, part comedy routine, part advice manual, she reveals her secrets to love, friendship, family, and marriage and how Nutella quite literally shaped who she is as a woman.
8) Funny girl
Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Follows the early career of Fanny Brice, her rise to stardom with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her stormy romance with Nick Arnstein.
10) Punch line
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Lilah, a housewife who wants to be a comedienne, teams up with Steve, a self-centered comic who teaches Lilah how to be funny.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Negin Farsad is an Iranian-American-Muslim female stand-up comedian who believes she can change the world, one joke at a time. In HOW TO MAKE WHITE PEOPLE LAUGH, Farsad shares her personal experiences growing up as the "Other" in an American culture that has no time for nuance. Writing bluntly and hilariously about the elements of race we are often too politically correct to discuss, Farsad takes a long hard look at the iconography that still shapes...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT hilariously, and candidly, explores the journey of the twenty-first century woman. As both a tomboy and a late bloomer, comedian Jessi Klein grew up feeling more like an outsider than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. In YOU'LL GROW OUT OF IT, Klein offers-through an incisive collection of real-life stories-a relentlessly funny yet poignant take on a variety of topics she has experienced along her strange journey...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"Shane Dawson, dubbed "YouTube's comic for the under-30 set" by the New York Times, reveals some of his most embarrassing moments in 20 original, personal essays that are at once hilarious and heartwarming, self-deprecating and, ultimately, inspiring to his audience of more than 12 million channel subscribers"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Description
For fans of Russell Peters, Trevor Noah, and Mark Critch comes a hilarious debut memoir about life growing up on the outside and finding one's place in the world, by stand-up comic and popular CBC host, Ali Hassan. Growing up, Ali Hassan was a chameleon. His friends came from many different backgrounds and religions--Trinidadian, Parsi, Goan, Hindu, Christian, Sikh. And as a hockey-playing, crockpot-using young man who also knew the words to at least...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Canada's most verbally virtuosic comic makes his literary debut - and he's just as richly, uproariously funny on the page as on stage. His legion of fans - the ones who ensure his every show the length and breadth of Canada is a sell-out - recognize Ron James as one of the great stand-ups of his generation. His seemingly improvisational flights of fancy - no two shows are ever the same - are crammed with inventive phrase-making, feature a vocabulary...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Gulman takes us on the journey of a comedian-in-the-making who is his own worst-- and most persistent-- enemy. He takes us through every year of his childhood education: from failing to impress at show-and-tell to literally fumbling in his first big football game. Along the way we discover how Gulman laid the foundation for his career as a comedian-- and how he eventually found himself back in his mother's house in suburban Boston, struggling to regain...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Formats
Description
A New York Times bestseller
A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption by comedic genius Molly Shannon
At 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 father, Molly was raised
...20) Good material
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Pub. Date
[2024].
Description
Set adrift on a sea of heartbreak, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story...
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