Book Description
Down-on-his-luck stand-up comedian Spence finally meets the right girl, who wants him to drop the jokes and live a more stable life, but the closer they get, the more successful he becomes.
Author : Ward Anderson
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 075829428X
Down-on-his-luck stand-up comedian Spence finally meets the right girl, who wants him to drop the jokes and live a more stable life, but the closer they get, the more successful he becomes.
Author : Ward Anderson
Publisher : Kensington Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,49 MB
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0758294298
"Ward Anderson flays open the perceived rock star glamour of stand-up comedy to show us how it really is."—Aisha Tyler Falling in love is like stand-up comedy. You have to be crazy to do it. . . Spence is a stand-up comedian whose claim to fame is a one-time appearance on The Late Late Show. Eight years ago. Since then, he's been living on the road, working in clubs like The Comedy Crib or The Funny Farm or The Laff Shack—if he's lucky. More often than not, his agent lands him gigs in country western bars. On a good night, he gets free drinks; on a bad night, he offends the audience with dirty jokes. Spence's ex-wife thinks he should find a nice girl and settle down. His ex-wife's husband thinks he should stop having his mail sent to their house. What does Spence think? That trying to have a relationship on the road is no laughing matter. Especially when he meets Sam. . . She's smart, she's beautiful, and she's Canadian—but she's not putting up with his schtick. Sam wants Spence to drop the jokes and be himself, which is hard for a man who's funny for a living. But the closer they get, the more successful Spence becomes. Can a stand-up comic live happily ever after with the girl of his dreams. . .without it ending in a punchline? "I'll Be Here All Week does more than offer a window into the life of a stand-up comic. Any reader would feel like they are actually on that stage, living the life and hoping that they'll get out alive. Underneath it all is a love story that is sweet and funny." --Ophira Eisenberg, standup comic and author of Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy
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Page : 392 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 1911
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Author : Cecil Day Lewis
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 1970
Category : English poetry
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Page : 994 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Finance
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Author : E. L. Bliffen
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Page : pages
File Size : 36,57 MB
Release : 2022-02-22
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ISBN : 9781957041780
A humorous glimpse into the real-life conversations of a regular mom with her exceptional kids
Author : Allie Brosh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1451666187
#1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!
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Page : 882 pages
File Size : 26,10 MB
Release : 1913
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Author : John Bonner
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Page : 876 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 1877
Category : United States
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Author : Randy Pausch
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,7 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.