Humor

Defending Happiness and other acts of bravery

by Amy Shea

"Defending Happiness, and Other Acts of Bravery" is a book about fighting for your bliss. The collection of stories demonstrates how one woman faced off with breast cancer, online dating, and motherhood, using...

You Can Get Arrested for That: 2 Guys, 25 Dumb Laws, 1 Absurd American Crime Spree

by Rich Smith

Two Englishmen on a crime spree break American laws!

Stupid, unreasonable, and long-forgotten laws—but laws just the same.

In 1787 the wise framers of the U.S. Constitution laid out the laws of the land. Since...

What's Not to Love?: The Adventures of a Mildly Perverted Young Writer

by Jonathan Ames

Perhaps all of Jonathan Ames’ problems–and the genesis of this hilarious book–can be traced back to the late onset of his puberty. After all it can’t be easy to be sixteen with a hairless “undistinguishable...

Debatable Humor: Laughing Matters on the 2008 Presidential Primary Campaign

by Patrick A. Stewart

Debatable Humor focuses on understanding the behavior of individual candidates within the context of political debates, and uses an evolutionary psychology perspective to understand the roots of this behavior....

Here Speeching American: A Very Strange Guide to English as It Is Garbled Around the World

by Ross Petras & Kathryn Petras

THE STRANGEST (AND FUNNIEST) TRAVEL GUIDE YOU’LL EVER READ

The celebrated authors of the perennial bestseller The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said set the typical travel guide squarely on its head–taking you...

Stuff White People Like: A Definitive Guide to the Unique Taste of Millions

by Christian Lander

They love nothing better than sipping free-trade gourmet coffee, leafing through the Sunday New York Times, and listening to David Sedaris on NPR (ideally all at the same time). Apple products, indie music,...

Laugh Scotland!

by Allan Morrison

Jokes classic, jokes new, jokes modern, old and blue...they're all here in Allan Morrison's book. From one-liners to shaggy dog stories, from Q&As to riddles, this book has the lot. Hot topics include: Glasgow...

The Mammoth Book of One-Liners

by Geoff Tibballs

A collection of 10,000 side-splitting one-line jokes arranged in categories from bestselling humour editor Geoff Tibballs. 'Is my wife dissatisfied with my body? A small part of me says yes.' 'Letting the cat...

Real Life

by Melissa Kite

Does an exciting weekend for you mean scrubbing all the grouting in your bathroom with a toothbrush? Have you ever felt the urge to kidnap the cable guy and tie him to the bed like Kathy Bates in Misery because...

What the L?

by Kate Clinton

I mean “What the L ?” in a buoyant, smart-ass, get-a-load-of-this, relentlessly optimistic, might-as-well-live “What the L?” tone. A leap of faith, if you will. And I will. I am a faith-based comic. In...

Don't Get Me Started

by Kate Clinton

Kate Clinton’s first book of irreverent humor

Let’s get one thing straight. I’m not. I’m out and proud. My closet was huge, complete with a foyer, turnstile, a few dead bolts, and a burglar alarm. It...

All the Presidents' Pets: The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over

by Mo Rocca

All the Presidents’ Men meets Charlotte’s Web in an explosive political exposé that blows the lid off a long-held secret in Washington: The Presidents’ pets are more than just furry photo ops.

How much...

A Heckuva Job: More of the Bush Administration in Rhyme

by Calvin Trillin

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.

Somehow, despite everything Calvin Trillin wrote about the Bush Administration in Obliviously On He Sails, his 2004...

The Crap-tastic Guide to Pseudo-Swearing

by Michelle Witte

True, dropping a well-placed swear can make even the worst situations seem better, but sometimes a “fudge!” or “sugar!” can be equally satisfying—and won’t land you in trouble. The Craptastic Guide...

Who Would Win a Fight between Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee?: The Sports Fan's Book of Answers

by Nicholas Hobbes

The world of sport generates perennial debates that can drive a grown man to distraction or create rifts between the firmest of friends. Fear not. Who would win a Fight between Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee? is...

Buddha Laughing: A Tricycle Book of Cartoons

by Tricycle Magazine

These eighty-five cartoons provide a hilarious perspective on everything from reincarnation to mindful--or perhaps mindless--ness. Over the centuries, Buddhism has offered the world a clear-eyed, down-to-earth...

Horseshoes, Cowsocks & Duckfeet: More Commentary by NPR's Cowboy Poet & Former Large Animal Veterinarian

by Baxter Black

Baxter Black is “good, but indescribably weird,” observes the Dallas Morning News. “The dean of cowboy bards, and the Art Buchwald of the Stetson-and-Levi’s crowd,” raves the Christian Science Monitor....

5 People Who Died During Sex: and 100 Other Terribly Tasteless Lists

by Karl Shaw

All in perfectly bad taste

Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, too insane, too bizarre, or too distasteful for this...

Do You Wear Suspenders? The Wordy Tales of Eh Poh Nim

by Lydia Teh

DO YOU WEAR SUSPENDERS? THE WORDY TALES OF EH POH NIM is a collection of anecdotes about the everyday life of Eh Poh Nim, a loquacious woman who launches into explanations of words and phrases at the drop of...

Manhattan Voyagers

by Thomas Quealy

The resourceful patrons of a Wall Street area tavern must contend with serious issues – stock scams, sexual taboos, old age, terrorists, unemployment, the Russian Mafia, cancer, murder, alcoholism, the Digital...