Comedy
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Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good: Larry David and the Making of Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Fully Revised and Updated
$19.95 Add to cartReaders can’t curb their enthusiasm for Pretty, Pretty, Pretty Good, now fully revised and includes a full insightful episode guide to the entire Curb Your Enthusiasm series
For Larry David, success- Author: Levine, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1770418377
- Language: English
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Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things?: A Comedian’s Guide to Autism
$17.99 Add to cartComedian Pierre Novellie was on stage when a heckler suggested he was autistic. Usually, this disruption would be water off a duck’s back but two things made this heckler different: first, he was him
- Author: Novellie, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1785121022
- Language: English
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Hairspray: A Screenplay
$16.00 Add to cartA feel-good fable and an enduring critique of conformity told with true John Waters flair.
Tracy Turnblad, a spunky, full-figured Baltimore teen, wants nothing more than to be a featured dancer on Th- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371295
- Language: English
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Funnier: A New Theory for the Practice of Comedy
$30.00 Add to cartA roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director
Great comedy can feel ineffable–and unlearnable. Debunking the myth that “either you are funny, or you a
- Author: Libera, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0810149362
- Language: English
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The Outsider: A Memoir for Misfits
$29.00 Read moreBeloved comedian Vir Das shares his journey as a perpetual outsider, using humor to navigate heartbreak, failure, and the quest for belonging.
When comedian and actor Vir Das found himself stranded on- Author: Das, Vir
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1668066327
- Language: English
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Comedy Nerd: A Lifelong Obsession in Stories and Pictures
$50.00 Add to cartAn intimate, rollicking highly-visual memoir of a comedic genius that offers a rare glimpse into the creative life and inner workings of legendary director producer Judd Apatow through never-before-se… [more below]
- Author: Apatow, Judd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0593595939
- Language: English
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John Candy: A Life in Comedy
$29.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy, the definitive biography of John Candy–a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy’s most beloved and enduring stars.
From his humble begin
- Author: Myers, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1487009526
- Language: English
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The Black Pack: Comedy, Race, and Resistance
$30.95 Add to cartThe Black Pack: Comedy, Race & Resistance is the first book to chronicle the untold history behind the iconic collaborations between a legendary group of comedians–Eddie Murphy, Paul Mooney, Keenen I… [more below]
- Author: Great, Artel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1978838131
- Language: English
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Desperate Living: A Screenplay
$15.00 Add to cartA grotesque and hilarious satire about the American dream, suburban living, and the corrupting influence of power, set in a world that could only have sprung from the unhinged and brilliant mind of Jo
- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371236
- Language: English
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Flamingos Forever: A Screenplay
$15.00 Add to cartOne part of John Waters’ iconic Trash Trilogy, Flamingos Forever is a dark-comedy screenplay about a drag queen trying to retain her title of “Filthiest Person in the World.”
Fifteen years after the e- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371279
- Language: English
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Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey
$16.95 Add to cartIn this book Richard Ayoade — actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist — reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in conversation with himself. Over ten brilliantly insightful and often … [more below]
- Author: Ayoade, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0571316530
- Language: English
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Pink Flamingos: A Screenplay
$15.00 Add to cartThe return of a spectacular, reviled, and iconic classic of American filth!
John Waters takes us back to the scene of his original crime against good taste. Watch as Babs Johnson fights to hold on to- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371333
- Language: English
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Nothin’ Comes Easy: The Life of Rodney Dangerfield
$29.00 Add to cartThe first-ever biography of the legendary comic and the most improbable rise to fame in the history of American comedy. Getting there wasn’t always a laughing matter.
Rodney Dangerfield’s fidgety deli- Author: Starr, Michael Seth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 080654323X
- Language: English
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Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live
$21.99 Add to cartThe New 50th Anniversary Edition of Saturday Night
“It reads like a thriller, and may be the best book ever written about television.”
— Associated Press“A chilling real-life cliffhanger.”
— Washin- Author: Hill, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1592115365
- Language: English
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Deathtrap: ‘A Thriller in Two Acts’
$19.99 Read moreIra Levin’s Broadway triumph Deathtrap melds gasp-out-loud thrills with laugh-out-loud laughs in a murderously entertaining “who’ll-do-it” of a play, within a play, within a …
Once-successful Sidney
- Author: Levin, Ira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9798212642705
- Language: English
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You Don’t Have to Have a Dream: And Other Life Lessons
$20.00 Add to cartA whimsically illustrated celebration of life, art, success, kindness, love, and thriving in a meaningless universe, drawn from three iconic graduation speeches from beloved comedian Tim Minchin in a … [more below]
- Author: Minchin, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1668080354
- Language: English
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Sicker in the Head: More Conversations about Life and Comedy
$18.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An all-new collection of honest, hilarious, and enlightening conversations with some of the most exciting names in comedy–from lifelong comedy nerd Judd Apatow.
“When I ne- Author: Apatow, Judd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0525509429
- Language: English
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Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
$19.99 Add to cartNow in paperback, a rollicking history of the rise and fall of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour –“A stunningly alive portrait of the 1960s and of two very different men who ‘refused to shut up’ and … [more below]
- Author: Bianculli, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 1439101175
- Language: English
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Lucky Loser: Adventures in Tennis and Comedy
$32.00 Add to cartFrom a host of The Daily Show and stand-up comic, Michael Kosta, comes a wildly funny and insightful memoir about his unlikely journey from professional tennis player (#864 in the world) to profession
- Author: Kosta, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 63418061
- Language: English
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Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live
$32.99 Add to cartThe New 50th Anniversary Edition of Saturday Night
“It reads like a thriller, and may be the best book ever written about television.”
— Associated Press“A chilling real-life cliffhanger.”
— Washin- Author: Hill, Doug
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1592115306
- Language: English
