Humor

Husbandry

by Stephen Fried

Why do men hog the remote? Refuse to stop and ask for directions? Have such a hard time sharing their emotions? Why can’t they drop their socks in the laundry basket instead of near it? What does a man mean...

My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways to Have a Lousy Night Out

by Jay Rayner

I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learned it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that....

Haikus for Jews: For You, a Little Wisdom

by David M. Bader

Why is this haiku book different from all other haiku books?

For centuries, the Japanese haiku has been one of the world's most dazzling poetic forms. In just three short lines, it captures the sublime beauty...

The Art of Office War

by Simon Drake

Did you ever really believe in the utopian mirage of job security, a work life balance, the CEO armed with a MBA, proper remuneration, the spineless middle managers, even your own innocent colleagues? The Art...

Alien Contact and Diplomacy: Get it Right or We Suffer

by Simon Drake

Aliens could use Facebook to mass communicate with us rather than trust our politicians. Earth may be regarded, by races billions of years old and billions of years old, as either an oddity, a zoo, or something...

Me the People: One Man's Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America

by Kevin Bleyer

The United States Constitution promised a More Perfect Union. It’s a shame no one bothered to write a more perfect Constitution—one that didn’t trigger more than two centuries of arguments about what the...

F My Life World Tour: Life's Crappiest Moments from Around the Globe

by Maxime Valette & Guillaume Passaglia

Painfully awkward. Hilariously honest. Best of all, it happened to someone else.

It’s a fact of life: No matter how lame, embarrassing, or downright crappy your day has been, someone else, somewhere on earth,...

Why Does Batman Carry Shark Repellent?: And Other Amazing Comic Book Trivia!

by Brian Cronin

Outrageous, fascinating and bizarre facts from every corner of the comic book universeWhat comic book artist was the recipient of an on-stage thank you from Paul McCartney and an on-air apology from Johnny Carson?...

Ghosts Aliens

by Trey Hamburger

Are you freaked out by the mere thought of a bird winking at you? Or do you panic when you hear an unexplained gurgling sound?

Well, listen to this. On Saturday, March 8, at 7:12 p.m., Trey Hamburger heard a...

Ask a Ninja Presents The Ninja Handbook: This Book Looks Forward to Killing You Soon

by Douglas Sarine & Kent Nichols

DEADLY NINJA WISDOM FOR THE NON-NINJA

Carefully consider the joy of your soft-headed ignorance before you begin to run, flip, and jump along the Ninja Path.

After much debate and in a spirit of morbid amusement,...

Howl: A Collection of the Best Contemporary Dog Wit

by Bark Editors

A pot roast left unguarded. An open bedroom door. An ill-timed squat. Dogs seem to have impeccable timing. Yet how quickly calamity turns to comedy in the company of a dog, and the wrong moment turns out to...

Loud and Clear

by Anna Quindlen

In this remarkable book, Anna Quindlen, one of America’s favorite novelists and a Pulitzer Prize– winning columnist, once again gives us wisdom, opinions, insights, and reflections about current events and...

Tales from the Teachers' Lounge: An Irreverent View of What It Really Means To Be a Teacher Today

by Robert Wilder

From the critically acclaimed author of Daddy Needs a Drink—hailed by the Los Angeles Times as “consistently hilarious”—comes a series of irreverent, wickedly observant essays about what it really means...

Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!

by Bob Harris

A.: This is the story of a working-class guy from Ohio with little real knowledge of Ambidextrous Presidents, Things Made from Rubber, and hundreds of other categories, but who nonetheless plunges so far into...

Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood

by Laurie Notaro

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life.

In Autobiography of a Fat Bride, Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the...

Joke Tellers Handbook

by Robert Orben

THE JOKE-TELLERS HANDBOOK OR 1,999 BELLY LAUGHS

ROBERT ORBEN

“Good ladies, evening and gentlemen . . . That does it! Next time I’ll rehearse everything! . . .”

That’s the only one example of what...

The Great American Attraction: Two Brits Discover the Rollicking World of American Festivals

by Rich Smith

After recovering in his native England from a frivolous-crime spree through the United States in You Can Get Arrested for That, Rich Smith is back again to take another look at this great nation and its extraordinary...

Mime Very Own Book

by Scott Allen Allen Perry, Adam Mock & Doug Jones

A hilarious visual smorgasbord, this vibrant photo narrative offers a quiet, introspective look into life as a silent emoter. Replete with images of actor and mime artist Doug Jones shot against an array of...

Self-Loathing for Beginners

by Lynn Phillips

Turning the self-help genre on its head, this humorous, tongue-in-cheek guidebook satirizes modern culture as it teaches how best to self-loathe. Beginning with the basics of self-loathing, readers learn to...

Women Are from Venus and So Are Their Horses: A Grown Man's Musings on the Opposite Sex in the Saddle

by Menno Kalmann & Jeanne Kloepfer

With an insider’s view of the woeful plight of the male connected to a devoted horsewoman, this wryly humorous confessional tells it like it is. The world of horsemanship is teeming with women and girls who...