I Found this Funny
Title | I Found this Funny PDF eBook |
Author | Judd Apatow |
Publisher | McSweeney's |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | American wit and humor |
ISBN | 9781934781906 |
"I Found This Funny" is a compilation of work by some of Apatow's favorite authors. Featured writers include F. Scott Fitzgerald, Conan O'Brien, Lorrie Moore, Paul Feig, Jonathan Franzen, Alice Munro, and many others.
Funny: The Book
Title | Funny: The Book PDF eBook |
Author | David Misch |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2012-04-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1557839662 |
Funny: The Book is an entertaining look at the art of comedy, from its historical roots to the latest scientific findings, with diversions into the worlds of movies (Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers), television (The Office), prose (Woody Allen, Robert Benchley), theater (The Front Page), jokes and stand-up comedy (Richard Pryor, Steve Martin), as well as personal reminiscences from the author's experiences on such TV programs as Mork and Mindy. With allusions to the not-always-funny Carl Jung, George Orwell, and Arthur Koestler, Funny: The Book explores the evolution, theories, principles, and practice of comedy, as well as the psychological, philosophical, and even theological underpinnings of humor, coming to the conclusion that (Spoiler Alert!) Comedy is God.
One-third Nerd
Title | One-third Nerd PDF eBook |
Author | Gennifer Choldenko |
Publisher | Wendy Lamb Books |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1524718882 |
Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet in this funny, fast-paced, and heartfelt story from the Newbery Honor-winning author of the Al Capone series. Illustrations.
My Dad Thinks He's Funny
Title | My Dad Thinks He's Funny PDF eBook |
Author | Katrina Germein |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2013-04-09 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763665223 |
A gift-appropriate story for kids features a long-suffering boy's eye-rolling observations of his father's bombastic and often corny sense of humor, which is comprised of groan-out-loud puns and wisecracking rejoinders.
Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten!
Title | Mom, It's My First Day of Kindergarten! PDF eBook |
Author | Hyewon Yum |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 45 |
Release | 2012-07-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0374350043 |
A five-year-old boy, ready and eager on his first day at "the big kids' school," must calm his very worried mother.
F for Effort
Title | F for Effort PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Benson |
Publisher | Chronicle Books |
Pages | 131 |
Release | 2012-07-11 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 145211322X |
Presents a collection of incorrect yet humorous test answers from real students, from an elementary student claiming that "two halves make a whale" to a high schooler who credits Galileo with inventing the solar system.
Sorrow and Bliss
Title | Sorrow and Bliss PDF eBook |
Author | Meg Mason |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2021-02-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0063049600 |
"Brilliantly faceted and extremely funny. . . . While I was reading it, I was making a list of all the people I wanted to send it to, until I realized that I wanted to send it to everyone I know." — Ann Patchett “Improbably charming...will have you chortling and reading lines aloud.” — PEOPLE The internationally bestselling, compulsively readable novel—spiky, sharp, intriguingly dark, and tender—that combines the psychological insight of Sally Rooney with the sharp humor of Nina Stibbe and the emotional resonance of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine. Martha Friel just turned forty. Once, she worked at Vogue and planned to write a novel. Now, she creates internet content. She used to live in a pied-à-terre in Paris. Now she lives in a gated community in Oxford, the only person she knows without a PhD, a baby or both, in a house she hates but cannot bear to leave. But she must leave, now that her husband Patrick—the kind who cooks, throws her birthday parties, who loves her and has only ever wanted her to be happy—has just moved out. Because there’s something wrong with Martha, and has been for a long time. When she was seventeen, a little bomb went off in her brain and she was never the same. But countless doctors, endless therapy, every kind of drug later, she still doesn’t know what’s wrong, why she spends days unable to get out of bed or alienates both strangers and her loved ones with casually cruel remarks. And she has nowhere to go except her childhood home: a bohemian (dilapidated) townhouse in a romantic (rundown) part of London—to live with her mother, a minorly important sculptor (and major drinker) and her father, a famous poet (though unpublished) and try to survive without the devoted, potty-mouthed sister who made all the chaos bearable back then, and is now too busy or too fed up to deal with her. But maybe, by starting over, Martha will get to write a better ending for herself—and she’ll find out that she’s not quite finished after all.