Humor

Instant Mom

by Nia Vardalos

For the first time, Nia Vardalos, writer and star of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, tells her hilarious and heartfelt bumpy-road-to-parenting story that eventually leads to her meeting an almost-three-year old girl...

The Daily Adventures of Mixerman

by Mixerman

(Book). Mixerman is a recording engineer working with a famous producer on the debut album of an unknown band with a giant recording budget. Mixerman is supposed to be writing about recording techniques, but...

The Best Thing About My Ass Is That It's Behind Me

by Lisa Ann Walter

Follow one woman's bumpy, cellulite-riddled ride through size-0 Hollywood and learn how she went from body-dysmorphic to sassy-asstastic in only twenty-five short years of dieting, thousands of dollars in "procedures,"....

The Tall Book

by Arianne Cohen

The Tall Book is a celebration of the tall-advantaged, which notes and explores the myriad benefits that come with living large--from the simple pleasures of being able to see over crowds at a parade, to the...

Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion: Investor's Business Daily Pulitzer Prize-Winning Editorial Cartoonist

by Michael Ramirez

In Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, Michael Ramirez, the internationally known editorial cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily, offers a comprehensive collection of his award-winning cartoons, accompanied...

Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America

by Steve Almond

Perhaps you remember the whipped splendor of the Choco-Lite, or the luscious Caravelle bar, or maybe the sublime and perfectly balanced Hershey's Cookies 'n Mint. The Marathon, an inimitable rope of caramel...

Familyhood

by Paul Reiser

For the longest time, based on no evidence other than our own insecurity and sense of incompetence, my wife and I were convinced that we were the flat-out, no-question-about-it, least-skilled parents in the...

The Rejection Collection: Cartoons You Never Saw, and Never Will See, in The New Yorker

by Matthew Diffee & Robert Mankoff

Each week about fifty New Yorker cartoonists submit ten ideas, yielding five hundred cartoons for no more than twenty spots in the magazine. Arguably the most brilliant single-panel-gag cartoonists in the world...

Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons Enhanced E-Book: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox

by Greg Fitzsimmons

With a foreword from Howard Stern, the enhanced e-book features a total of nineteen videos lasting approximately 30 seconds each, with Bob Saget, Adam Corolla, Kyle Gass, Pete Yorn, Zach Galifianakis, and...

The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media

by Gawker Media

With the same deliciously biting irreverence and insider dish that's made Gawker.com addictive to millions of readers every month, The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media serves up a hilarious blueprint for...

Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor

by G. Legman

Why do people tell dirty jokes?

And what is it about a joke's dirtiness that makes it funny?

G. Legman was perhaps the foremost scholar of the dirty joke, and as legions of humor writers and comedians know,...

Book of the Subgenius

by Subgenius Foundation

Sometimes a book goes too far. Sometimes is... now.

First, there was The Gilgamesh.

Then... the Bhagavad-Gita

Then... the Torah, the New Testament, the Koran

Then... the Book of Mormon, Dianetics, I'm OK You're...

How to Make Peace in the Middle East in Six Months or Less: Without Leaving Your Apartment

by Gregory Levey

Gregory Levey’s modest goal is to solve the Middle East conflict—all by himself. After returning to North America following a stint in his midtwenties writing speeches for the Israeli government—first...

More From Magnolia: Recipes from the World Famous Bakery and Allysa Torey's Home Kitchen

by Allysa Torey

A cupcake can change your life. Ever since Magnolia Bakery opened its doors in 1996, people have been lining up day and night to satisfy their sugar cravings -- patiently waiting in line at the old-fashioned...

Winging It: A Memoir of Caring for a Vengeful Parrot Who's Det

by Jenny Gardiner

A gift from an overseas relative, Graycie, an African Gray parrot, arrives in the Gardiner home not long after the birth of their first child, adding the responsibilities of parrot-hood to their newfound parenthood....

The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap

by Matthew Diffee

Each week The New Yorker receives more than five hundred submissions from its regular cartoonists, who are all vying for one of the twenty coveted spots in the magazine. So what happens to the 75 percent of...

Barack Like Me: The Chocolate-Covered Truth

by David Alan Grier & Alan Eisenstock

FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but...

Dear Gangster...: Advice for the Lonelyhearted from the Gangster of Love

by Gangster of Love & Dave Berry

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Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh?

by Jimmy Carr

Britain's hottest young comedian presents a seriously funny, up-close look at joking matters-from the social origins of laughter, to the art and craft of humor, to why we can never remember the punch line-featuring...

The Jewel Hunter

by Chris Gooddie

A tale of one man's obsession with rainforest jewels, this is the story of an impossible dream: a quest to see every one of the world's most elusive avian gems--a group of birds known as pittas--in a single...