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- #Newsfail : climate change, feminism, gun control, and other fun stuff we talk about because nobody else will
- 1000 years of laughter : an anthology of classic comic prose
- 101 damnations : the humorists' tour of personal hells
- 15° off cool
- 2000 year old man : 2000 years with Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks
- 2500 jokes to start 'em laughing
- 5 very good reasons to punch a dolphin in the mouth : (and other useful guides)
- A Prairie home companion pretty good joke book
- A Treasury of Catholic digest : favorite stories of fifty years, 1936-1986
- A bad idea I'm about to do : true tales of seriously poor judgment and stunningly awkward adventure
- A few more pretty good jokes
- A la cart : the secret lives of grocery shoppers
- A load of hooey : a collection of new short humor fiction
- A nonsense anthology
- A prairie home companion : 20th anniversary collection
- A prairie home companion : 25th anniversary collection
- A treasury of humorous poetry; : being a compilation of witty, facetious, and satirical verse selected from the writings of British and American poets
- Actionable offenses : indecent phonograph recordings from the 1890s
- All the presidents' pets : the inside story of one reporter who refused to roll over
- America (the audiobook) : [a citizen's guide to democracy inaction
- America (the audiobook) : a citizen's guide to democracy inaction
- America again : re-becoming the greatness we never weren't
- Amy's answering machine : messages from mom
- An encyclopedia of modern American humor,
- And I quote : the definitive collection of quotes, sayings, and jokes for the contemporary speechmaker
- And more by Andy Rooney
- Andy Rooney : 60 years of wisdom and wit
- Ant farm : and other desperate situations
- Anything can happen : notes on my inadequate life and yours
- Babyhood
- Babyhood
- Beating around the bush
- Belle weather : mostly sunny with a chance of scattered hissy fits
- Best. State. Ever : a Florida man defends his homeland
- Best. State. Ever. : a Florida man defends his homeland
- Best. state. ever : a Florida man defends his homeland
- Big kiss : one actor's desperate attempt to claw his way to the top
- Bill Cosby
- Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow, right!
- Bill Cosby, himself
- Billy Crystal 700 Sundays
- Blame it on Bianca del Rio : the expert on nothing with an opinion on everything
- Blue collar comedy tour : one for the road
- Blue collar comedy tour, the movie : original motion picture sountrack
- Bob Hope : my life in jokes
- Boogers are my beat : more lies, but some actual journalism
- Boogers are my beat : more lies, but some actual journalism
- Boogers are my beat : more lies, but some actual journalism / Dave Barry
- Boogers are my beat : more lies, but some actual journalism!
- Book
- Bossypants
- Bossypants
- Brain droppings
- Braindroppings
- Braindroppings
- Brian Regan : the epitome of hyperbole
- Brian Regan, Standing up
- Bright lights, big ass : a self-indulgent, surly ex-sorority girl's guide to why it often sucks in the city, or, Who are these idiots and why do they all live next door to me?
- Bruce! : adventures in the skin trade and other essays
- Car talk : why you should never listen to your father when it comes to cars
- Chelsea Chelsea bang bang
- Church people : the Lutherans of Lake Wobegon
- Cinco
- Comedy comes clean : a hilarious collection of wholesome jokes, quotes, and one-liners
- Comic relief
- Common nonsense
- Completely Mad : a history of the comic book and magazine
- Confessions of a late night talk show host : the autobiography of Larry Sanders
- Confessions of a teen sleuth : a parody
- Couplehood
- Crackpot : the obsessions of John Waters
- Created in darkness by troubled Americans : the best of McSweeney's, humor category
- Dan gets a minivan : life at the intersection of dude and dad
- Daniel Tosh, Completely serious
- Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus
- Dave Barry is not making this up
- Dave Barry is not making this up
- Dave Barry is not taking this sitting down
- Dave Barry is not taking this sitting down!
- Dave Barry is not taking this sitting down!
- Dave Barry talks back
- Dave Barry's greatest hits
- Dave Barry's history of the millennium (so far)
- Dave Barry's history of the millennium (so far)
- Dave Barry's history of the millennium (so far)
- David Sedaris live at Carnegie Hall
- Davy Crockett, : American comic legend...
- Dear Ruby Ann : down home advice about lovin', livin', and the whole shebang
- Deliriously happy
- Destined for destiny : the unauthorized autobiography of George W. Bush
- Destined for destiny : the unauthorized autobiography of George W. Bush
- Disaster preparedness
- Disaster preparedness : a memoir
- Dishing with the kitchen virgin
- Disquiet, please! : more humor writing from the New Yorker
- Dogfight at the Pentagon : sergeant dogs, grumpy cats, wallflower wingmen, and other lunacy from The Wall Street Journal's A-Hed column
- Doing my time
- Don't forget to call your mama... I wish I could call mine
- Dr. Science's book of shocking domestic revelations
- Drivel : deliciously bad writing by your favorite authors
- Duck soup for the soul : the way of living louder & laughing longer
- Early Poke : a great southern humorist looks at life's pitfalls and pinnacles
- Egghead, or, You can't survive on ideas alone
- Ellen DeGeneres, the beginning : a comedy special for the ages
- Ellen Degeneres : here and now : modern life and other inconveniences
- Enough about you : the narcissist's 7-step, 1-minute survival guide to sacred spirituality, a self-empowered career, and highly effective relationships
- Esquire : the rules : a man's guide to life
- Every day is an atheist holiday! : more magical tales from the author of God, no!
- Everything and a kite
- Everything's trash, but it's okay
- Fables for our time : and famous poems illustrated
- Familyhood
- Fat is the new 30 : the Sweet Potato Queens' guide to coping with (the crappy parts) of life
- Fierce pajamas : an anthology of humor writing from the New Yorker
- Forbidden fruit creates many jams
- Fresh air laughs with Terry Gross : [Terry Gross interviews 21 stars of comedy]
- Fun jokes : more than 500 squeaky-clean, laugh-inducing, stress-relieving jokes for everyone
- Funny letters from famous people
- Funny times presents The best of the best American humor : the funniest cartoons, columns, and essays from The Funny times newspaper
- Gabriel Iglesias : hot and fluffy : live from Bakersfield
- Garrison Keillor's comedy theater : more songs and sketches from A prairie home companion
- George Carlin reads to you
- George Carlin reads to you : an audio collection including recent grammy winners Braindroppings and Napalm & silly putty
- George's best stuff
- Get your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye
- Giggles, gags & groaners
- Git-r-done
- Go ask Ali : half-baked advice (and free lemonade)
- Go the fuck to sleep
- God save the Sweet Potato Queens
- God, no! : signs you may already be an atheist and other magical tales
- God, no! : signs you may already be an atheist and other magical tales
- Great political wit : laughing (almost) all the way to the White House
- Great political wit : laughing (almost) all the way to the White House
- Grown-a$$ man
- Half empty
- Half empty
- Have your loved ones spayed or neutered
- Hell is for real, too : a middle-aged accountant's astounding story of his trip to Hell and back
- Henry's hilarious one liners
- Hilarious roasts, toasts & one-liners
- Hilarith : the best of lesbian humor, Vol. I
- Himself
- How did you get this number : essays
- How not to act old : 185 ways to pass for phat, sick, hot, dope, awesome, or at least not totally lame
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- How not to get shot : and other advice from white people
- How to be inappropriate
- How to be the funniest kid in the whole wide world (or just in your class)
- How to piss in public : from teenage rebellion to the hangover of adulthood
- How to remember jokes : and 101 drop-dead jokes to get you started
- How to tell a joke
- How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you
- Humor for the heart : stories, quips, and quotes to lift the heart
- Humor me : the geranium lady's funny little book of big laughs
- I am America (and so can you!)
- I am America (and so can you!)
- I am a pole (and so can you!)
- I didn't ask to be born (but I'm glad I was)
- I didn't ask to be born (but I'm glad I was)
- I drink for a reason
- I drink for a reason
- I have chosen to stay and fight
- I have chosen to stay and fight
- I haven't understood anything since 1962 (and other nekkid truths)
- I know I am, but what are you?
- I know I am, but what are you?
- I might regret this : essays, drawings, vulnerabilities, and other stuff
- I only roast the ones I love : busting balls without burning bridges
- I remember nothing
- I remember nothing : [and other reflections]
- I remember nothing : and other reflections
- I remember nothing : and other reflections
- I started out as a child
- I still have it-- I just can't remember where I put it : confessions of a fiftysomething
- I still have it-- I just can't remember where I put it : confessions of a fiftysomething
- I suck at girls
- I suck at girls
- I think we're all bozos on this bus
- I think, therefore I have a headache! : a laugh-out-loud look at life
- I told you so
- I want you to shut the f#ck up : how the audacity of dopes is ruining America
- I was told there'd be cake
- I'll mature when I'm dead
- I'll mature when I'm dead : Dave Barry's amazing tales of adulthood
- I'll mature when I'm dead : Dave Barry's amazing tales of adulthood
- I'm dreaming of a black Christmas
- I'm dreaming of a black christmas
- I'm telling you for the last time
- In fifty years we'll all be chicks : -- and other complaints from an angry middle-aged White guy
- In our humble opinion : Car talk's Click and Clack rant and rave
- Into the twilight, endlessly grousing
- Is everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns)
- Is everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns)
- It looked different on the model : epic tales of impending shame and infamy
- It's not me, it's you : subjective recollections from a terminally optimistic, chronically sarcastic, and occasionally inebriated woman
- James Thurber : the life and hard times
- Jeff Dunham : all over the map
- Jeff Dunham : spark of insanity
- Jim Gaffigan : beyond the pale
- Joke stew : 1,349 more hilarious servings from today's hottest comedians
- Jokes : outrageous bits, atrocious puns, and ridiculous routines for those who love jests
- Jokes men won't laugh at
- Jokes to go : 1,386 of the funniest bits from the best comedians
- Kathy Griffin's celebrity run-ins : my A-Z index
- Katt Williams live : let a playa play
- Kerplunk! : [stories]
- Kerplunk! : stories
- Kevin Hart : let me explain
- Kilroy was here : the best American humor from World War II
- Kotter's back : e-mails from a faded celebrity to a bewildered world
- Lake Wobegon U.S.A
- Laugh your worries out : hundreds of popular American jokes
- Laughter still is the best medicine : our most hilarious jokes, gags, and cartoons
- Laughter, the best medicine : more than 600 jokes, gags, and laugh lines for all occasions from America's most popular magazine
- Leo Rosten's Giant book of laughter
- Lessons from Lucy : the simple joys of an old, happy dog
- Lessons from Lucy : the simple joys of an old, happy dog
- Let's explore diabetes with owls
- Let's explore diabetes with owls : essays, etc.
- Letters from a nut
- Lies that Chelsea Handler told me
- Lies that Chelsea Handler told me
- Life itself : "Messiness is next to goddessness" and other essays
- Look alive out there : essays
- Loser goes first : my thirty-something years of dumb luck and minor humiliation
- Lost in the cosmos : the last self-help book
- Mama learns to drive
- Mark Twain's book of animals
- Mark Twain's library of humor
- Maxine yelling it like it is : a fine whine with the queen of attitude
- Meaty : essays
- Milton Berle's private joke file : over 10,000 of his best gags, anecdotes, and one-liners
- Mirth of a nation
- Mirth of a nation : the best contemporary humor
- More information than you require
- More letters from a nut
- More mirth of a nation : the best contemporary humor
- More napalm & sillyputty
- More napalm and silly putty
- More news from Lake Wobegon
- More news from Lake Wobegon : love stories from the collection
- More of Dave Barry's greatest hits : all new & original material
- More of the best of Milton Berle's private joke file : 10,000 of the world's funniest gags, anecdotes, and one-liners
- More podium humor : using wit and humor in every speech you make
- Morning constitutions
- Mother, father, uncle, aunt : stories from Lake Wobegon
- Mr. Funny Pants
- Mr. Show with Bob and David : What happened?
- Mr. Universe
- My footprint : /
- My footprint : carrying the weight of the world
- My seven years in captivity : tails and misadventures in the San Diego Zoo
- My squirrel days
- My world - and welcome to it
- Napalm & silly putty
- Napalm & silly putty
- Napalm & silly putty
- Napalm & silly putty
- Never scared
- Never shake hands with a war criminal
- New rules : polite musings from a timid observer
- New rules : polite musings from a timid observer
- No respect
- Noble ape
- Non campus mentis : world history according to college students
- Normal is just a setting on the dryer : and other lessons from the real, real world / by Adair Lara ; illustrations by Roxanna Bikadoroff
- Not Taco Bell material
- Not tonight, honey : wait 'til I'm a size 6
- Nothing's sacred
- Obsessed
- Of thee I zing
- Of thee I zing : America's cultural decline from muffin tops to body shots
- Our dumb century : 100 years of headlines from America's finest news source
- Our dumb world
- Our dumb world : the Onion's atlas of the planet earth
- Out of my mind
- Outhouses by famous architects
- Plenty of pretty good jokes : complete joke collection
- Prairie home comedy : radio songs & sketches
- President me : the America that's in my head
- Pretty good jokes
- Quite enough of Calvin Trillin : forty years of funny stuff
- Rants 3
- Real ponies don't go oink!
- Reflections in a jaundiced eye
- Revenge of the latchkey kids : an illustrated guide to surviving the 90s and beyond
- Rita Rudner live from Las Vegas
- Robin Williams live on broadway
- Roseannearchy : dispatches from the nut farm
- Rubber balls and liquor
- Rubber balls and liquor
- Russell Baker's book of American humor
- Satiristas! : comedians, contrarians, raconteurs & vulgarians
- Sh*t my dad says
- Sh*t my dad says
- Shave the whales : a Dilbert book
- Shhh...Don't tell
- Sibling revelry : the best of the Smothers Brothers
- Simple times
- Siri & me : a modern love story
- Sometimes I feel like a nut : essays & observations
- Southern fried divorce
- Southern fried divorce : a woman unleashes her hound and his dog in the Big Easy
- Squeaky clean comedy : 1,512 dirt-free jokes from the best comedians
- Squirrel seeks chipmunk
- Squirrel seeks chipmunk : a modest bestiary
- Statements : true tales of life, love, and credit card bills
- Stick to drawing comics, monkey brain! : [cartoonist ignores helpful advice]
- Still Catholic after all these years
- Stop dressing your six-year-old like a skank : and other words of delicate Southern wisdom
- Stories I couldn't tell while I was a pastor ; Just as long as I'm riding up front
- Stories from a moron : real stories rejected by real magazines
- Stories to make you feel better
- Stuff white people like : the definitive guide to the unique taste of millions
- Stuff white people like : the definitive guide to the unique taste of millions
- Stupid white men-- and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation!
- Stupid white men-- and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation!
- Suck it, Wonder Woman! : the misadventures of a Hollywood geek
- Summer love
- Suri's burn book : well-dressed commentary from Hollywood's little sweetheart
- Swim against the current : even a dead fish can go with the flow
- Tailgate party
- Take my wife, please! : Henny Youngman's giant book of jokes
- Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- Thank you notes
- That is all
- The 2,000 year old man in the year 2,000
- The 50 funniest American writers according to Andy Borowitz : an anthology of humor from Mark Twain to the Onion
- The Aristocrats
- The Bob's Burgers burger book : real recipes for joke burgers
- The CEO of the sofa
- The Carnegie Hall concert
- The Daily Show (the audiobook) : an oral history as told by Jon Stewart, the correspondents, staff and guests
- The Daily Show with Trevor Noah presents The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library
- The Daria diaries
- The Dave Barry CD collection
- The Larry Wilde library of laughter
- The Onion ad nauseam, Vol. 14, Complete news archives
- The Onion book of known knowledge : mankind's final encyclopedia from America's finest news source
- The Onion presents : complete news archives, Vol. 16, Embedded in America
- The Onion presents : complete news archives, Vol. 17, Homeland insecurity
- The Reader's digest treasury of American humor.
- The Real Andy Kaufman
- The Sweet Potato Queens' book of love
- The Sweet Potato Queens' field guide to men
- The Wisdom of Mark Twain
- The alphabet of manliness
- The areas of my expertise
- The areas of my expertise : an almanac of complete world knowledge compiled with instructive annotation and arranged in useful order ...
- The baby boom : how it got that way and it wasn't my fault and I'll never do it again
- The bachelor home companion : a practical guide to keeping house like a pig
- The bear in the attic
- The bear in the attic
- The beautiful people and other aggravations
- The best case scenario handbook : a parody
- The best joke book (period) : hundreds of the funniest, silliest, most ridiculous jokes ever
- The best of Car Talk : and the second best of Car Talk
- The best of Second City
- The best of Uncle John's bathroom reader
- The best of Will Rogers
- The best of Will Rogers
- The comic tradition in America; : an anthology.
- The complete Peanuts, 1967 to 1968
- The day I turned uncool : confessions of a reluctant grown-up
- The doctor joke book
- The double life is twice as good
- The emotionary : n. a dictionary of words that don't exist for feelings that do
- The essential Lenny Bruce
- The everything big book of jokes : hundreds of the shortest, longest, silliest, smartest, most hilarious jokes you've never heard!
- The fiddler in the subway : the true story of what happened when a world-class violinist played for handouts-- and other virtuoso performances by America's foremost feature writer
- The fireside treasury of modern humor
- The funny thing is
- The funny thing is--
- The good samaritan strikes again
- The good samaritan strikes again
- The hatchback of Notre Dame : [more Car talk classics]
- The hipster handbook
- The horse in my garage and other stories
- The insanity defense : the complete prose
- The joker : a memoir
- The laugh stand : adventures in humor
- The liberal redneck manifesto : draggin' Dixie outta the dark
- The life of the party; : a new collection of stories and anecdotes.
- The new new rules
- The new new rules : a funny look at how everybody but me has their head up their ass
- The new treasury of gross jokes
- The notes : Ronald Reagan's private collection of stories and wisdom
- The off-white album
- The politically correct guide to the Bible
- The portable Dorothy Parker
- The potty mouth at the table
- The rant zone : [an all-out blitz against Bush-league politics, twisted child stars, soul-sucking jobs, and people who eat their dogs]
- The rant zone : an all-out blitz against soul-sucking jobs, twisted child stars, holistic loons, and people who eat their dogs
- The right to bare arms
- The smartest book in the world : a lexicon of literacy, a rancorous reportage, a concise curriculum of cool
- The smartest book in the world : a lexicon of literacy, a rancorous reportage, a concise curriculum of cool
- The super joke book
- The ten, make that nine, habits of very organized people. Make that ten : the tweets of Steve Martin
- The toast always lands jelly-side down and other tales of surburban life : Suzann Ledbetter
- The totally unscientific study of the search for human happiness
- The uncollected David Rakoff
- The very best of Bob & Ray : legends of comedy
- The week-end book of humor.
- There's nothing in this book that I meant to say
- There's nothing in this book that I meant to say
- They're all gonna laugh at you!
- This is a book by Demetri Martin called This is a book
- This is an audiobook
- This is how : proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude & more : for young and old alike
- Thrown under the omnibus : a reader
- Tom Keith : sound effects man
- Totally committed
- Totally committed
- Tourists, retirees, and other reasons to stay in bed
- Tracey takes on
- Treasury of classic American comedy
- Twain's humor : a collection
- UFOs, JFK, and Elvis : conspiracies you don't have to be crazy to believe
- UFOs, JFK, and Elvis : conspiracies you don't have to be crazy to believe
- Uncle John's presents mom's bathtub reader
- Uncle John's unstoppable bathroom reader
- Vacationland : true stories from painful beaches
- Very best of Americas funniest comedians
- W.C. Privy's original bathroom companion
- Wait, wait-- don't tell me!, Famous people who returned our calls
- Wait, wait--don't tell me! : the oddly informative news quiz
- Waiting for the punch : words to live by from the WTF podcast
- Way off the road : [discovering the peculiar charms of small-town America]
- Way off the road : discovering the peculiar charms of small-town America
- Way off the road : discovering the peculiar charms of small-town America
- We learn nothing : essays and cartoons
- We're just like you, only prettier : confessions of a tarnished southern belle
- We've got it made in America : a common man's salute to an uncommon country
- When will Jesus bring the pork chops
- When will Jesus bring the pork chops?
- When will Jesus bring the pork chops?
- When you need a lift : but don't want to eat chocolate, pay a shrink, or drink a bottle of gin
- When you're up to your eyeballs in alligators
- Whiter shades of pale : the stuff white people like, coast to coast, from Seattle's sweaters to Maine's microbrews
- Who's on first?
- Why do men have nipples? : and other low-life answers to real-life questions
- Why men are like popcorn : and other stupid men jokes
- Why we suck : a feel good guide to staying fat, loud, lazy and stupid
- Why you better call Saul : what our favorite TV lawyer says about life, love, and scheming your way to acquittal and a large cash payout
- Will Rogers at the Ziegfeld Follies
- Will Rogers' world : America's foremost political humorist comments on the twenties and thirties--and eighties and nineties
- Witcracks: jokes and jests from American folklore
- Write if you get work : the best of Bob and Ray
- YM the best of Say anything
- You are all diseased
- You better not cry : stories for Christmas
- You better not cry : stories for Christmas
- You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning
- You don't sweat much for a fat girl : observations on life from the shallow end of the pool
- You have to fucking eat
- You must go and win
- You're a horrible person, but I like you : the Believer book of advice
- You're not doing it right : (tales of marriage, sex, death, and other humiliations)
- Your wildest dreams, within reason
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