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They don't call him Stink for nothing! Now kids can savor a smorgasbord of facts about smelly and vile stuff in honor of their favorite super sniffer. Did you know that a group of skunks is called a stench? (No lie!) Can you believe that in colonial days, window-washing rags were dipped in pee? Or that snail slime was once an ingredient in cough syrup? Stink has a nose for yuck and muck, and this book is full of it: moose poop festivals, mouse
...46) Calypso
47) True Story
"Anyone considering a career in stand-up comedy should read this book, then consider something else, because all this great stuff is over." - Jerry Seinfeld "This is the novel I would have written about stand-up comedy if I was a sick egghead like Bill Maher." - Roseanne "Crisp, funny bitter, and wise...Bill Maher really knows stand-up comedy" - Steve Allen
What Dave Barry did for American history in Dave Barry Slept Here and to further the cause of "guys" in Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys he does for. . . EVERYTHING ELSE IN AMERICA. THE URBAN PROFESSIONALS; “I’m going to start a rock'n' roll band, not a good band, where you have to be in tune and wear makeup. This will be a band consisting of people who are Approaching Middle Age, by which I mean they know the words to "Wooly Bully. " This
...The winner of 11 Emmy Awards, acclaimed author David Javerbaum cowrote the runaway best-seller The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book), which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. The parody memoir The Last Testament offers insight into God's take on contemporary society. Why does He love America? What does He listen for in a good prayer? Which sports teams does He support? This work covers it all.
Moe Moskowitz is back! And this time he's joined by NPR's Edwards, Alex Chadwick, Terry Gross, Cokie Roberts, Susan Stamberg Robert Siegel, Carl Kasell, Frank Tavares, Linda Wertheimer, Scott Simon, Andy Lyman, and special guest star Daniel Schorr. ". . . sweeping satire. . . these comic-musicians and their ever-scheming manager Moe Moskowitz (a paradigm for the new millennial entrepreneur if ever there was one) draw on the spirit as well as the
...RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A BIG FAT IDIOT and Other Observations is a scathing-but uncompromisingly fair look at America's largest talk show host and the rest of the Republican right. Penned by the Emmy Award-winning Saturday Night Live writer whom John Podhoretz the New York Post has called "the man responsible for some of the most brilliant political satire of our time, " Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot tackles the issues and the politicians in ways
...WARNING: THIS ISN'T THE REAL THING. . . IT'S FUNNIER! '"Stop that movie, " Headmaster Alpo Bumblemore said, "or Hogwash is history!" After someone sells directions to the school to a sleazy Muddle tabloid, Barry Trotter, Ermine Cringer, and Lon Measly are hauled out of retirement to face their toughest challenge yet. Not only do the 22-year-olds have to elude packs of rabid fans, outwit Barry's sponging Uncle Sereous, and vanquish their old foe
...“[Merrill] Markoe is easily as funny as David Sedaris. She’s capable of manic riffs and acerbic skewering. Still, her good nature shines through.”—The Washington...
In this wickedly funny and irreverent memoir, Chelsea Lately writer and comedian Sarah Colonna opens up about love, life, and pursuing her dreams . . . and then screwing it all up.
Sarah believes we all struggle to grow up. Sometimes we want to have fun, not take things too seriously, and have that fourth margarita. Other times we would like to get married, stay in, order Chinese food, and have a responsible, secure
People I want to punch in the throat:
• anyone who feels the need to bling her washer and dryer
• humblebraggers
• people who treat their pets like children
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Guns N' Roses is one of the world's most successful rock bands, with estimated sales of 90 million albums worldwide. Steven Adler is the original drummer, with an infamous past of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll that led to his removal from the band.
And here, for the first time, Steven Adler tells it...
Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful choices she made in her early twenties through the internet's favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY...
- Move to a South Pacific Island
- Wear a Loincloth
- Read a Hundred Books
- Diaper a Baby Monkey
- Build a Bungalow
And Maybe, Just Maybe, Fall in Love! *
* Individual results may vary.
The true story of how a quarter-life crisis led to adventure, freedom, and love on a tiny island in the Pacific.
From the author of a lot of emails and several Facebook...
For fans of Bill Bryson and David Sedaris comes an anti-nature memoir that will resonate with anyone who would rather stay inside with a book than venture into the mountains, from one of Scandinavia's biggest comedians.
"A smart, funny and honest exposé of the cult of the outdoors, from the sublime to the ridiculous."—Foreword Reviews
Sometime around his forties, Are Kalvø starts losing his friends......
“I adore the Beekman boys’ story. Their unlikely story of love, the land, and a herd of goats is hilariously honest. If these two can go from Manhattan to a goat farm in upstate New York, then I can’t help feeling there is hope for us all.” –Alice Waters
“Kilmer-Purcell’s genius lies in his ability to blindside the reader with heart-wrenching truths in the midst of the most outlandish scenarios.
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