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The complete memoirs of a man of many talents and faces – the late, great Spike Milligan – affectionately recounted by his close friend and agent for 35 years, Norma Farnes. 'What's he really like?'……続きを見る

The Winner Stands Alone is an enthralling novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho. The story is set during the Cannes International Film Festival and the entire action plays out over 24 hours. Igor i……続きを見る

SPECIAL PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIME One woman's journal of single life on the margins. A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss’ journalism – recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. T……続きを見る

The complete Timothy Lea confessions from the CONFESSIONS series, the brilliant sex comedies from the 70s, available for the first time in eBook. Save over 〓16 on the individual purchase RRP Contai……続きを見る

“When bad sex happens to good people, there is no recourse like full disclosure,” is the motto of Worst Laid Plans, a collection of forty probably-too-intimate, but shockingly funny, true-life tales……続きを見る

The comedians of the 1950s and 1960s were a totally different breed of relevant, revolutionary performer from any that came before or after, comics whose humor did much more than pry guffaws out of ……続きを見る

The first biography of the comedic genius behind the cult favorite TV show "Da Ali G Show" and the high grossingーand gross outーsmash film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glor……続きを見る

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high q……続きを見る

In the 1934 classic It Happened One Night, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark G……続きを見る

Lee Evans is one of the best-loved comedians in the country; a Hollywood star able to sell out arenas in the blink of eye. But he was not always such a roaring success. The Life of Lee is an utterly……続きを見る

Spike Milligan's legendary war memoirs are a hilarious and subversive first-hand account of the Second World War, as well as a fascinating portrait of the formative years of this towering comic geni……続きを見る

The collected hard-boiled cases of nursery rhyme-noir with Detective Harry Pigg. Contains The Third Pig Detective, The Ho Ho Ho Mystery and The Curds and Whey Mystery. Harry Pigg, the only surviving……続きを見る

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laureltonーa southeastern city renowned for its strip clubsーanthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider’s account of the……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE A.V. CLUB • Includes new interviews! From the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes ……続きを見る

"Smart, knowing, and deeply reported, the definitive history of one of modern American humor’s wellsprings." ーKurt Andersen, author of Fantasyland, host of NPR’s Studio 360 Labor Day, 1969. Two rec……続きを見る

A professor of American Studiesーand stand-up comicーexamines sharply focused comedy and its cultural utility in contemporary society. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice In this examination of stand……続きを見る

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'This is the kind of book that troubles grey-suited committees of academic peers. It's too enjoyable. But that, given its subject, is just what it ought to be, and it treats that subject seriously .……続きを見る

Dad wasn't angry. As I started to cry. He hugged me. He calmed me. And he taught me to lie. Wingman is a new father-son comedy from Fringe-First winner Richard Marsh. Mum's dead. Annoyingly, dad's n……続きを見る

Mike Cyra takes us on another hilarious grand tour of the strange medical humor in the real-life world of emergency medicine and surgery. Whether he’s assisting trauma surgeons who are singing “Take……続きを見る

Creating Solo Performance is an innovative toolbox of exercises and challenges focused on providing you – the performer – with engaging and inspiring ways to explore and develop your idea both on th……続きを見る

The seeds of irreverent humour that inspired the likes of Wayne and Shuster and Monty Python were sown in the trenches of the First World War, and The Dumbellsーconcert parties made up of fighting s……続きを見る

In Aristophanes' Lysistrata, the women of Athens, fed up with the war against Sparta, go on a sex strike and barricade themselves into the acropolis to persuade their husbands to vote against the wa……続きを見る

An examination of the art of stand-up comedy, its constituent parts and how they work Considering stand-up comedy to be an art-form deserving greater attention and analysis, Getting the Joke provide……続きを見る

SB1070 is an adventure that filled with love, passion, determination and endurance.  This story depicts the drama about deportation under the new U.S immigration law.  During the past few ……続きを見る

Life in the Seaside resort of Walmington-on-Sea on the South Coast of England in the 1940’s during the Second World War as seen through the exploits of a band of men who got together to form the Wal……続きを見る

Learn how to write comedy that makes people laugh. Masterclass: Writing Comedy will reveal to both beginners and experienced writers the distinctive features that mark out comedy from other forms of……続きを見る

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women’s Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever. A Book For Her deta……続きを見る

From the daughter of the iconoclastic comedic performer, Kelly Carlin’s memoir A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up with George “is written in the DNA of a Carlin, honest, biting, savage, funny, sad,……続きを見る

This book is the awakening that people have been looking for. If you want to see why Blacks in America act the way they do, and others. If you want to know the root of infidelity, why women love the……続きを見る