Not Just for Laughs
Author : Marcia Tucker
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Art, American
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Author : Marcia Tucker
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Art, American
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Author : Jo Koy
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0062969986
A stunning, hilarious memoir from beloved comedian Jo Koy, “far and away one of the funniest people out there” (Chelsea Handler). Mixed Plate illuminates the burning drive and unique humor that make Jo Koy one of today’s most successful comedians. Includes never-before-seen photos. Well guys, here it is—my story. A funny, sad, at times pathetic but also kick-ass tale of how a half-Filipino, half-white kid whose mom thought (and still thinks) his career goal was to become a clown became a success. Not an overnight success, because that would have made for a really short read, but an All-American success who could give my immigrant mom the kind of life she hoped for when she came to this country, and my son the kind of life I wished I’d had as a kid. With all the details of what it felt like to get the doors closed in my face, to grind it out on the road with my arsenal of dick jokes, and how my career finally took off once I embraced the craziness of my family, which I always thought was uniquely Filipino but turns out is as universal as it gets. In this book, I’ll take you behind the mic, behind the curtain—OK, way behind it. From growing up with a mom who made me dance like Michael Jackson at the Knights of Columbus, to some real dark stuff, the stuff we don’t talk about often enough as immigrants. Mental health, poverty, drinking. And show you the path to my American Dream. Which was paved with a lot of failure, department store raffle tickets to win free color televisions, bad jokes, old VHS tapes, a motorcycle my mom probably still hates, the only college final I aced (wasn’t math), and getting my first laugh on stage. There’s photo evidence of it all here, too. In this book, I get serious about my funny. And I want to make you laugh a little while I do it. I’m like Hawaii’s favorite lunch—the mixed plate. Little bit of this, a little bit of that. My book Mixed Plate is too.
Author : Andy Griffiths
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : Buttocks
ISBN : 9780439791632
Four hilarious, butt-selling titles in one gross-out boxed set! Includes THE DAY MY BUTT WENT PSYCHO!, an epic tale of one brave boy and his crazy, runaway butt. ZOMBIE BUTTS FROM URANUS!, the heart-stopping, nostril-burning sequel. JUST JOKING!, in which Andy attempts some of the best--and worst--practical jokes in history. JUST ANNOYING! will annoy you. AND annoy you. And ANNOY you. And annoy YOU...
Author : Quinta Brunson
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1328638987
From comedian Quinta Brunson comes a deeply personal and funny collection of essays featuring anecdotes about trying to make it when you're broke, overcoming self-doubt and depression, and how she's used humor to navigate her career in unusual directions. Quinta Brunson is a master of viral Internet content: without any traditional background in media, her humorous videos were the first to break through on Instagram's platform, receiving millions of views. From there, Brunson's wryly observant POV attracted the attention of BuzzFeed's motion picture development department, leading her to produce viral videos there about topics like interracial dating, millennial malaise, and seeing your ex in public. Now, Brunson is bringing her comedic chops to the page in She Memes Well, an earnest, laugh-out-loud collection about her weird road to Internet notoriety. In her debut essay collection, Quinta applies her trademark humor and heart to discuss what it was like to go from student loan debt-broke to "halfway recognizable--'don't I know you somewhere?'" level-of-fame. With anecdotes that range from the funny and zany--like her experience trying to find her signature hairstyle--to more grounded material about living with depression, Brunson's voice is entirely authentic and eminently readable. Perfect for fans of Phoebe Robinson's You Can't Touch My Hair, Samantha Irby's We Are Never Meeting in Real Life, and Issa Rae's The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, She Memes Well will charm and entertain a growing, engaged audience.
Author : Mo Welch
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1523504269
There’s an entire industry built on the idea of helping people to push hard and succeed in love, work, fitness, and finances. But what about those people who would so much rather stay home and eat pizza with the cat while binge-watching Netflix? Who’s telling them that it’s OK to be a couch potato? Blair, that’s who. The creation of cartoonist and stand-up comic Mo Welch, Blair is the awkward, self-deprecating, totally relatable anti-heroine who already has 65,000 followers on Instagram and an animated show on TBS Digital. Now Blair is the face, the voice, and the attitude of How to Die Alone, the perfect self-help book for not helping yourself—and a funny, irreverent gift for millennials struggling to “adult.” Forget winning friends and influencing people—here’s advice on how to win the Worst Friend Award instead, including: Always be late, never offer to drive (anywhere), and treat your friend’s kitchen like an open bar. Plus the ins and outs of terrible dates, permission to eat cookies instead of going to the gym, and how to treat your job like the inconvenience that it is. It’s the genuinely funny, tongue-in-cheek guide to just saying no.
Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429914483
Douglas Preston's Jennie, based on the real story of the chimpanzee who inspired Curious George, is the celebrated novel that was made into the award-winning Disney television film The Jennie Project. Translated into many languages, Jennie became a worldwide bestselling sensation. On a research trip to West Africa, Dr. Hugo Archibald of the Boston Museum of Natural History encounters an orphaned baby chimpanzee. Archibald decides to bring the ape, whom he names Jennie, back to Boston and raise her alongside his own two young children as a kind of scientific experiment. Jennie captures the hearts of everyone she encounters. She believes herself to be a human being. She does almost everything a human child can, from riding a tricycle to fighting over the television with her siblings to communicating in American Sign Language. Told from shifting points of view of those closest to Jennie, this heartwarming and bittersweet novel forces us to take a closer look at the species that shares 98 percent of our DNA and ask ourselves the question: What does it really mean to be human? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 1986-11
Category :
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Author : Margaret Safo (Mrs.)
Publisher : Graphic Communications Group
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 14,94 MB
Release : 2006-10-07
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Author : Jeanne Willis
Publisher : Andersen Press USA
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1467744239
The most action-packed banana-peel gag ever! What happens when mischievous Hyena puts a banana peel on unsuspecting Giraffe's path? A lot of hilarious chaos, it turns out. Kids will laugh and laugh at the crazy chain of events Hyena's practical joke sets in motion. In the end though, the joke's on Hyena, and readers will learn the smelly consequences of laughing too much at others' misfortunes.
Author : Jeanne Willis
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,85 MB
Release : 2000-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780805065015
Told in rhyme, this story follows Susan through a series of activities, from swimming to riding a horse. It's not until the end of the story that readers learn Susan uses a wheelchair. Color illustrations.