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US: Grove Press, 2016. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comed ian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George Carlin to Eddie Murphy to Loui s CKÂ?comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century's worth of rebels and groundbreakers, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts , forgotten stars and workaday plodders in this essential history of Americ an comedy. Beginning with the nationwide vaudeville circuits that dominated at turn of the twentieth century, Nesteroff describes the rise of the first true stand-up comedianÂ?a variety show emcee who abandoned physical shtick for straight jokes. The end of Prohibition ushered in a surprising golden age of comedy, as funnymen were made into radio stars and the… Leer más

New York: Hyperion Books, 1993. Very Good+. Cowgirl Companion: Big Skies, Buckaroos, Honky Tonks, Lonesome Blues and Ot her Glories of the True West.

US: Soft Skull, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. From mom-and-pop general stores to big-box, strip-mall chains, it is impossible to consider the American experience without thinking about the buying-and-selling retail culture: the sales and the stockrooms, the shift managers, and the clock punchers. The Customer Is Always Wrong is a tragicomic and all-too revealing collection of essays by writers who have done their time behind the counter and lived to tell their tales. Jim DeRogatis, author of Let It Blurt, for example, describes hanging out with Al himself at Al Rocky's Music Store, while Colson Whitehead explains how three summers at a Long Island ice cream store gave him a lifelong aversion to all things dessert-like. This book not only shines a light on the absurdities of retail culture but finds the delight in it as well.

US: Pan Books, 2002. Very Good. From the creator of the hit BBC TV Show TV NATION, the most popular documen tary of all time, Emmy Award-winning ROGER AND ME, and the stupendously suc cessful STUPID WHITE MEN, is a new edition of Michael Moore's classic book for all you disillusioned, political abstainees who are working longer hour s for less pay and have had enough... Michael Moore has established himself as someone who just won't shut up, go away, or otherwise do what political and coporate fat cats would like him to do. With chapter headings such as 'Why Doesn't General Motors Sell Crack?' setting the tone for a biting indi ctment of American corporate politics, Moore's take-no-prisoners attitude i s brutally funny, insightful, irrepressible. The issues raised are universa l; here, Michael Moore lifts the veil on the people who set themselves up a s our role models and hysterically exposes their vulnerable underbellies. ' America has an irrepressible new humorist in the tradition of Mark… Leer más

US: Vintage, 1987. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

US: Penguin Publishing Group, 2011. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny g ift! New York Times bestselling author Wendy Northcutt is back, asking, Have we evolved at all? The answer: Not all of us. What crazy cocktail of DNA leads Homo sapiens to do pull-ups off the edge o f a seventh-floor balcony or wrap their lips around a paintball gun and pul l the trigger? How about offering a beer to a bear or self-testing a Taser? Why not go joyriding in a shopping cart strapped to an SUV or jump a drawb ridge on a bicycle? Fully illustrated with over a hundred new jaw-dropping and side-splitting feats of stupidity--and including science essays by guest writers and answers to FAQs about evolution in action--The Darwin Awards Next Evolution continues the tradition of honoring the victims of appallingly poor… Leer más

New York: Ballantine Books, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This humorous guide to men looks at the quirks, habits and thought processes common to them all.

US: Ballantine Books, 1990. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. " Bary turns his formidable wit to the subject of American history, with a result reminiscent of the Reduced Shakespeare Company: The better you know the original, the funnier it gets." LOS ANGELES TIMES This time Dave Barry's subject is history, the way it's never been told before. Every single momentous event and crucial moment is covered, including...The Birthing Contractions of a Nation; Kicking Some British Butt; The Fifties: Peace, Prosperity, Brain Death, right up through the scintillating Reagan-Bush years. If you love to laugh, and you love your country, this is the book you've been waiting for since 1776. Or at least since Super Bowl III.

US: Crown, 1994. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The popular humorist presents a selection of more than fifty one-of-a-kind gifts for the discriminating individual, furnishing vendor names, prices, a nd addresses for such treasures as elephant-print Republican pants and a ca psule of rodent bones regurgitated by an owl. 150,000 first printing.

US: Bantam, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good. David Letterman's Book of Top Ten Lists and Zesty Lo-Cal Chicken Recipes by David Letterman and the Late Show with David Letterman Writers It's like watching TV -- with the added danger of paper cuts! Top Ten Apologies to People Buying This Book: 10. Cheap glue will only hold the thing together for about six days. 9. Some kids sneaked into the printing plant and added the word "ass" to a lot of the lists. 8. It costs about a dime to print one of these babies -- now take a look at the retail price, sucker! 7. We're using the money we make to buy "little Dutch girl" outfits for Dav e's poodles. 6. The book was hastily assembled overseas by jabbering foreigners who don' t give a damn about you or your family. 5. A drunk maintenance guy fell into the press and parts of him appear on p ages 68-87. 4. Felt safe making jokes about the Amish on TV; forgot some of them might actually see the book. 3. Dave insisted on writing some of these and we had to play along. . 2.… Leer más

US: Feral House, 2017. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. With savage humor, Death Confetti features performance artist Jennifer Robi n's autobiographical sketches of Portland, Oregon, from the grunge-era obsc urity of the '90s to its current media-darling status. As an only child raised by reclusive grandparents in upstate New York, Jenn ifer recalls that she felt "anemic for the real." At seventeen she broke lo ose and made her way to the west coast. "Civilization is a nightmare-illusion," Jennifer writes, "a three-dimension al spreadsheet perpetuated by machines that hypnotize meat." In a city that's stranger than fiction, grocery-store checkers and meth-hea ds loom as lost gods. We're introduced to the lady tweaker "Chew Toy," who wears moon boots and sings hair metal songs all night as she collects recyc lable bottles. Jennifer visits a bar where executives… Leer más

US: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Celebrating President George W. Bush's four years in office, a colorful array of malapropisms, foot-in-mouth statements, and gaffes from America's forty-third president encompasses Bush's verbal goofs as he speaks out on such topics as "What I Stand For," "Leadership," and "Is Our Children Learning?" 100,000 first printing.

US: Falcon Distribution, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. From Paul Stanton's popular Duckboy line of postcards and calendars comes t his ten-year collection of more than 100 humorous black-and-white photos. C huckle, chortle, and belly laugh to "Where Jerky Comes From," "The Trouble with a Short Horse in the Rockies," "Deprogramming a Vegetarian in Cattle C ountry," "It's Easy to Spot the 'Tourista' in a New Mexico Caf," and many o thers. The Duckboy Way also features several of Stantos's comic yarns, amon g them "How To Make Cowboy Coffee," "So You Want To Be a Mountain Man?" and "Memoirs of an Old Duckboy." Paul Stanton's photos and tales satirize logg ers, yuppies, cowboys, politicians, kids, gun enthusiasts, coffee junkies, pets, outdoor sports, machismo, and much more. The popularity of these hila rious western photos has spread throughout the United States and abroad.

US: Ulysses Press, 2015. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. A CLASSIC BATHROOM READER FOR ADULTS THAT PRESENTS FUNNY TRIVIA, GROSS STOR IES AND FASCINATING FACTS IN AN ILLUSTRATED CHILDREN'S BOOK STYLE Every day, Americans produce hundreds of millions of pounds of poop. In New York City alone, the weight of poop-based sludge produced each day is arou nd 1,200 tonsâ??the equivalent of 200 African elephants. So unbuckle your t rousers and pull up a toilet seat; this book is going to push open the lava tory door and answer these fascinating mysteries of poop: • Where does poop go when you flush? • What's the secret genius below an outhouse? • Are you eating food grown in your own poop? • Can you ride a poop-powered bus? • Was there really a flush toilet 5,000 years ago? • What is the future of poop?

US: Guardian Faber Publishing, 2021. Hardcover. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. 'It's now becoming easier and easier to predict government policy. Just lis ten to what the prime minister said in the morning and the opposite is like ly to be true come the middle of the afternoon.' Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John Crace's brilliantly acerbic political sketches have once more provided the nation w ith a much-needed injection of humour. In A Farewell to Calm, Crace introduces an infectiously funny selection of his finest pieces from 2020-21, taking in everything from a summer of unfat homable U-turns to Christmas Covid confusion, and from lockdown-lifting to Brexit blithering. Led by Boris's poundshop Churchill tribute act, and featuring a cast of everyone's least favourite pantomime villains, from Classic Dom Cummings to Door Matt Hancock, the end… Leer más

US: Quercus, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have bee n the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyt on for Grown-Ups, George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy confront a new chall enge: give up the booze. Give up alcohol you say? Why, of course they can! Talk about an easy challe nge! Five old friends set about this simple task and find all of a sudden t hat: the days are longer; they get to see each other for who they really ar e; the empty laughter of ordinary conversation is so much harder to fake. Y es, they're saving money and losing weight, but the world itself seems to t ake on a slow, dreary inevitability. Soon they begin to snap at each other, and then fight - until they begin to wonder, have the Five at last found t he challenge that will defeat them? The… Leer más

US: Quercus, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good. Enid Blyton's books are beloved the world over and The Famous Five have bee n the perennial favourite of her fans. Now, in this new series of Enid Blyt on for Grown-Ups, can George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy survive the ulti mate test of their friendship: Brexit? It is the night of the referendum and the Five have retired to Kirrin Islan d to enjoy the fresh air and sunshine, fed up with the rancour of public de bate. George is firmly a 'remainer,' whilst Julian, who is in the 'Brexit' camp, is tolerated on the grounds that Anne cannot bear to go camping witho ut him. (Timmy, largely apolitical but not keen on cats or rabbits, joins t hem too.) The night is tempestuous in more ways than one. George has managed to rig u p a satellite link with the mainland so they can keep abreast of the news, and they sit huddled around the fire, amidst some tension, as George's init ial hope that the 'remainers' will triumph proves premature... Meanwhile, a violent storm… Leer más

London: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine /No Dustjacket. A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout. A collection of satirical and irreverent Bell and Woddis "New Statesman" humour from 1988 to 1991. The final Thatcher and Reagan years and the first months of Major and Bush are illuminated by Bell's cartoons and acid verses by Woddis. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

US: Hachette Books, 2008. Hardcover. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Charles Osgood, one of America's favorite news personalities, offers a hilarious compendium of anecdotes from the last seventy years of presidential campaigns. With anecdotes from Harry Truman to JFK to George W. Bush, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House captures the wit and humor of the campaign trail. Culled from speeches, interviews, press conferences, as well as articles written by and about the candidates--no source is left untapped. From Bob Dole telling reporters after a loss in the primary that "I slept like a baby--every two hours I woke up and cried," and Barry Goldwater's comment that his talkative opponent Hubert Humphreys "has been clocked at 275 words a minute with gusts up to 340," to Adlai Stevenson declaring that "If I talk over the people's head, Ike must be talking under… Leer más

New York: Nan A. Talese, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A highly collectible first edition/printing, a tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscriptions or markings, not price clipped an ex-library or a book of the month club edition. Shortly after his defeat in the 1996 U.S. presidential election, Republican Bob Dole was invited to appear on David Letterman's Late Show. Letterman asked Dole about President Clinton's weight, but Dole wasn't taking the bait. "I never tried to lift him," he retorted. "I just tried to beat him." That was the first time many Americans got to see a side of Bob Dole rarely revealed to the public during his 36 years on Capitol Hill--the dry, wicked sense of humor that quickly became a defining characteristic of his postpolitical career.