Waters Book

Publication Date: October 13, 2011

Ever wondered who makes a very funny person laugh? Wonder no more. Brought together in this Library of America collection are America’s fifty funniest writers—according to acclaimed writer and comedian Andy Borowitz. Reaching back to Mark Twain and forward to contemporary masters such as David Sedaris, Nora Ephron, Roy Blount Jr., Ian Frazier, Bernie Mac, Wanda Sykes, and George Saunders, The 50 Funniest American Writers* is an exclusive Who’s Who of the very best American comic writing. Here are Thurber and Perelman, Lenny Bruce and Bruce Jay Friedman, Garrison Keillor, Dave Barry, and Veronica Geng, plus hilarious lesser-known pieces from The New Yorker, Esquire, The Atlantic, National Lampoon, and The Onion. Who does “one of the funniest people in America” (CBS Sunday Morning) read when he needs a laugh?

Review

"Sublimely funny… This book is a treasure trove of laughter and an ideal gift for anyone who needs to be cheered up or refreshed, which these days means just about everyone you know."- Nell Minow The Movie MomA New York Times Best Seller — The New York Times

ISBN-10:1598531077

ISBN-13: 978-1598531077

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Publication Date: September 1, 2007

After a bungled, hilarious suicide attempt and a subsequent hospital stay, Jimmy’s life is set on a course he could never have imagined with his new best pal, fellow resident, and practical joker Kevin. Together the two form a business to assist the suicidal who, like Jimmy, couldn’t quite pull off dying the first time, with the added wrinkle of filming and distributing each case for profit. After a terrible practical joke gone wrong, Jimmy resolves to put what he has learned about human suffering to better use by helping, rather than exploiting, those desperate souls who want to end their lives. An outrageous romp through the darkest aspects of human nature, this compelling novel is told with brilliant black humor and a unique zest for life.

From Booklist

Jimmy is a British slacker. Overwhelmed by life’s burdens, including his telly’s failure minutes before the start of Manchester United’s match against Inter Milan, he attempts suicide. But his already protracted adolescence is extended, perhaps for many decades, when he bungles his attempt. In the hospital, he meets Kevin, an orderly and practical joker in residence. They quickly become mates and almost as quickly develop an unlikely business plan: to assist others intent on suicide and sell DVDs of their clients’ videotaped demise over the Web. Recycling Jimmy certainly isn’t the most polished first novel of the year, but it is energetic, imaginative, relentlessly and unabashedly vulgar, and at times funny enough to make a cranky reviewer laugh out loud. This belongs on every eccentric fiction fan’s short list of oddball black comedies, where it will share space with John Ridley’s Everybody Smokes in Hell (1998), Michael Dibdin’s Back to Bologna (2006), and great chunks of the works of Carl Hiaasen, Donald E. Westlake, and Barry Gifford. Gaughan, Thomas

ISBN-10:1601640137

ISBN-13: 978-1601640130

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ISBN-10:0671715585

ISBN-13: 978-0671715588

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Publication Date: May 4, 2010

Based on the hit website, AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com (“painful, regrettable, horrifyingly awesome snaps of family bonding, you will laugh so hard that people in adjoining offices will ask what’s wrong with you”—Esquire), this full color book features never-before-seen photos and hilarious personal stories covering everything from uncomfortable moments with relatives, teen angst, sibling rivalry, and family vacations from hell. Cringe at the forced poses, bad hair, and matching outfits–all prompting us to look at our own families and celebrate the fact that we’re not alone. Nothing says awkward better than an uncomfortable family photograph!

Amazon.com Review

Jennifer Weiner Reviews Awkward Family Photos Jennifer Weiner was born in 1970 on an army base in Louisiana. She grew up in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in English literature from Princeton University. She is the author of the novels Good In Bed (2001), In Her Shoes (2002), which was turned into a major motion picture starring Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette and Shirley MacLaine; Little Earthquakes (2004), Goodnight Nobody (2005), the short story collection The Guy Not Taken (2006), Certain Girls (2008), the sequel to Good in Bed, and her most recent, Best Friends Forever (2009). Her next book, Fly Away Home, will be published by Atria Books on July 13, 2010. There are more than 11 million copies of her books in print in 36 countries. She can be found on Facebook, on Twitter, and, in real life, in Philadelphia, where she lives with her family. Read her review of Awkward Family Photos: Samuel Butler once said “Every man’s work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.” If that’s true, than God help Mike Bender and Doug Chernack, who waded into the toxic slurry of bad mullets, spiral perms, skin conditions, leg warmers, wet pants, creepy Moms, funny uncles, and truly disturbing Santas, and came back with this hilarious collection of awkward family photos. Awkward Family Photos reminds anyone with a dusty shoebox full of snapshots of unfortunate fashion choices, band trips, braces, bad bridesmaids’ dresses and that one time you got talked into dressing up and going to the Renaissance Faire, that you are not alone. This isn’t just a book, it’s a public service on the page, a living, breathing, laugh-out-loud reminder that no matter how badly you dressed, how oddly you posed, and how weird Uncle Dave who lived in the basement was, somebody out there had it worse. Particularly the girl on page 77.

ISBN-10:0307592294

ISBN-13: 978-0307592293

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Publication Date: September 28, 2010

Assholes Finish First is Tucker Max’s deliciously dirty collection of twenty-five true tales of sex, girls, and wildly entertaining depravity.

About the Author

Tucker Max received his BA with highest honors from the University of Chicago in 1998, and attended Duke Law School on an academic scholarship, where he graduated with a JD in 2001. His first book, "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell," is a #1 NY Times Best Seller, has spent over 150 weeks on the NY Times Best Seller List over five calendar years, and has sold over 1 million copies. He has also been credited with being the originator and leader of the literary genre, "fratire," and was nominated to <I>Time</I> Magazine’s 100 Most Influential List in 2009. He currently lives in Austin, Texas, and can be reached through his website, TuckerMax.com.

ISBN-10:B004HHO4AE

ISBN-13:

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Publication Date: March 15, 2007

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Three Men in a Boat begins: THERE were four of us — George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were — bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course. We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that HE had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what HE was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all. It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.

Review

“Wonderfully fresh and funny, and among examples of Victorian humor I would place it high in the pantheon, right up there with The Importance of Being Earnest and The Diary of a Nobody . . . triumphantly stands the test of time, with its comic flights of exaggeration, its occasional archness, and its entirely innocent hint of the camp.”  —Daily Telegraph”I fell out of bed laughing at Three Men in a Boat.”  —Guardian
–This text refers to an alternate

Paperback
edition.

ISBN-10:0809500337

ISBN-13: 978-0809500338

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Publication Date: March 15, 2007

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English author, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat. Three Men in a Boat begins: THERE were four of us — George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were — bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course. We were all feeling seedy, and we were getting quite nervous about it. Harris said he felt such extraordinary fits of giddiness come over him at times, that he hardly knew what he was doing; and then George said that HE had fits of giddiness too, and hardly knew what HE was doing. With me, it was my liver that was out of order. I knew it was my liver that was out of order, because I had just been reading a patent liver-pill circular, in which were detailed the various symptoms by which a man could tell when his liver was out of order. I had them all. It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.

Review

“Wonderfully fresh and funny, and among examples of Victorian humor I would place it high in the pantheon, right up there with The Importance of Being Earnest and The Diary of a Nobody . . . triumphantly stands the test of time, with its comic flights of exaggeration, its occasional archness, and its entirely innocent hint of the camp.”  —Daily Telegraph”I fell out of bed laughing at Three Men in a Boat.”  —Guardian
–This text refers to an alternate

Paperback
edition.

ISBN-10:0809500337

ISBN-13: 978-0809500338

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ISBN-10:B002G7USL6

ISBN-13:

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In a bright buzzing room, in the glow of the moon-and iPhones and Androids and Blackberries too-it is time to say goodnight… Modern life is abuzz. There are huge LCD WiFi HD TVs and Facebook requests and thumbs tapping texts and new viral clips of cats doing flips. Wouldn’t it be nice to say goodnight to all that? Like the rest of us who cannot resist just a few more scrolls and clicks, you may find yourself ready for bed while still clinging to your electronics long after dark. This book, which is made of paper, is a reminder for the child in all of us to power down at the end of the day. This hilarious parody not only pokes loving fun at the bygone quiet of the original classic, but also at our modern plugged-in lives. It will make you laugh, and it will also help you put yourself and your machines to sleep. Don’t worry, though. Your gadgets will be waiting for you, fully charged, in the morning.

About the Author

Ann Droyd is the pseudonym for an IRA/CBC Children’s Choice winner who has written and illustrated over twenty picture books for young readers. Droyd’s work is known for its sense of narrative, humor, and visual playfulness. Ann Droyd, who studied graphic design at Parsons, lives in Massachusetts.

ISBN-10:0399158561

ISBN-13: 978-0399158568

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