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The Darwin Awards 4: Intelligent Design

de Wendy Northcutt & Christopher Kelly

Over 1.5 million copies sold in this New York Times bestselling humor series

The Darwin Awards series is the alpha chimp of humorous human mishaps. Despite being an international bestseller and inspiring the...

The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection

de Wendy Northcutt

The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection brings together a fresh collection of the hapless, the heedless, and the just plain foolhardy among us.  Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates...

I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood

de Dave Barry

The New York Times bestse;;er from "the funniest man in America" (New York Times).

Not everyone has to be dragged kicking and screaming through adulthood. Let Pulitzer Prizewinning humorist and nationally...

Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt The Door

de Lynne Truss

"Talk to the hand, 'coz the face ain't listening!" This expression has become so widespread that Lynne Truss need not even mention the name of the TV talk show where you first heard it. It's a perfect example...

What Would MacGyver Do?: True Stories of Improvised Genius in Everyday Life

de Brendan Vaughan

A clever collection of true stories celebrating real-life ?MacGyverisms?

For anyone who?s ever wished they could channel 1980s action-adventure icon Angus MacGyver?a secret agent known for relying on his brains,...

Faking It: How to Seem Like a Better Person Without Actually ImprovingYourself

de From the Writers of Collegehumor.com

The prevaricating pros who helped students glide through seven years of college in The CollegeHumor Guide to College are back to show post-grads how to turn life into an "Easy A" by, well, faking it. From sounding...

X-Treme Latin: All the Latin You Need to Know for Survival in the 21st Century

de Henry Beard

In staff meetings and singles bars, on freeways and fairways, there are aggravating people lurking everywhere these days. But bestselling humorist Henry Beard has the perfect comeback for all prickly situations,...

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey Gods, How to Avoid Being Mistak

de Scott Adams

Everyone knows Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, as the king of workplace humor. His insights into the crazy world of business have long been on display in his hugely popular comic strip and bestselling books...

It's Not News, It's Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News

de Drew Curtis

Now in paperback, the hilarious exposé on the media gone awry, from the creator of the wildly popular Fark.com

Have you ever noticed certain patterns in the news you see and read each day? Perhaps it's the blatant...

Hot. Passionate. and Illegal?: Why (Almost) Everything You Thought About Latinos Just May Be True

de Penguin Putnam

From Dancing With the Stars finalist Cristian de la Fuente comes a tongue-in-cheek guide to understanding Latino culture-now in paperback.

As a contestant on Dancing with the Stars, international star and...

The True Stella Awards

de Randy Cassingham

Gathered from the popular website www.StellaAwards.com, The True Stella Awards is an outrageous collection of America’s most frivolous lawsuits Named for Stella Liebeck, the woman who won a multimillion-dollar...

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

de 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...

Mirth of a Nation: The Best Contemporary Humor

de Michael J. Rosen

A salvo of hilarity from that loose canon of American humor that Mirth of a Nation editor Michael J. Rosen has culled from some 1200 pages of brilliantly original works by our best contemporary humorists. This...

Lipshtick

de Gwen Macsai

Get comfy, pull up a pan of blondies, and settle in for some girlfriend talk. Get the lowdown on who's low and how's down, whose long-standing but unspoken conflict with her mother is contributing to her sexual...

I Shudder

de Paul Rudnick

A hilariously funny, touching, and revelatory book from one of America's preeminent humorists

In his plays, his screenplays, and his writing for the New Yorker and Premiere, Paul Rudnick has established himself...

Chocolate, Please

de Lisa Lampanelli

An inside look at the life of Comedy's Lovable Queen of Mean, Lisa Lampanelli, as she dishes on everything from relationships, food, and fat to why once you go black, you never go back

In her jaw-droppingly...

Schmucks!

de Raoul Felder & Jackie Mason

Jackie Mason, one of the true kings of comedy, and his partner in crime, federal prosecutor and celebrity attorney Raoul Felder, go after America's lowlifes, scumbags, and everything else that really gets on...

The Greedy Bastard Diary

de Eric Idle

A stunningly witty exploration of the American landscape -- not to mention a brilliant comic's mind -- this diary is chock-full of everything you ever wanted to know about Eric Idle, Monty Python, America, and...

Why Girls Can't Throw

de Mitchell Symons

Warning: the truth can be shocking, seductive, offensive, outrageous...even disgusting!

Are you perplexed by the mysteries of the universe, confounded by the workings of the human body, prone to pondering the...

UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You Don't Have to Be Crazy to Believe

de Richard Belzer

"I'm not asking you to believe every conspiracy theory you'll find in this book. . . . I didn't write this book to give you all the answers. The Warren Commission did that, and the answers were all wrong. I...