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A satirical look at modern culture. In Glen's Homophobia Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, the author parodies the whining of minority groups, Diary of a Smoker tackles the persecution of smokers, and Santaland Diaries describes the author's experiences as a Macy's elf.
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English
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The best-selling author offers a new collection of satirical and humorous essays that chronicle his own life and ordinary moments that turn beautifully absurd, including how he coped with the pandemic, his thoughts on becoming an orphan in his seventh decade, and the battle-scarred America he discovered when he resumed touring.
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The author presents a collection of three animal-themed essays. In The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck, a group of complete strangers bitterly discuss the order of things within the animal kingdom. In Hello Kitty, a miserable alcoholic cat attends AA. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarrelling families.
6) Just joking 3: 300 hilarious jokes about everything, including tongue twisters, riddles, and more!
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National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
©2013
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English
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A book of silly jokes, including knock-knocks, tongue twisters, riddles, traditional question and answer jokes, and more.
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English
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The New York Times bestseller by Famous Minor Television Personality John Hodgman—The Daily Show’s “Resident Expert” and the PC in the iconic Apple ads—picks up exactly where his first book left off. In fact, “the new volume is in every way a continuation of Areas of My Expertise, except in the ways it’s clearly superior.”(The Onion AV Club)
In 2005, John...
In 2005, John...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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Deutsch
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By the time the DEFA Studio for Animation Film closed in 1992, it had produced more than 800 shorts in a wide variety of styles and techniques. The 16 animation films included in this collection were directed by 8 different animators between 1974 and 1990, and give a taste of animation production in East Germany. Established in 1955, the studio initially produced shorts exclusively for children. During the 1970s and '80s, however, films targeting...
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English
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Bestselling humorist Sedaris likes to test out new material on twice-a-year reading tours to get the rhythm and phrasing perfected before he puts them down on the page. This live recording of his sold out October 22, 2002, reading at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall finds Sedaris performing debuting new stories, all captured in this audiobook. They include a parrot who mimics an ice maker, lovers quarrelling over a rubber hand, and a Santa Claus who moonlights...
14) Common nonsense
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Public Affairs
Pub. Date
c2002
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English
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Presents a collection of essays covering such topics as politics, money, sports, religion, education, the arts, travel, doctors, people, and progress.
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English
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"Former child actor Fiona St. James dropped out of the spotlight after a spectacularly public crash and burn. The tabloids called her crazy and self-destructive and said she'd lost her mind. Now in her late twenties, Fiona believes her humiliating past is firmly behind her. She's finally regained a modicum of privacy, and she won't let anything--or anyone--mess it up. Unlike Fiona, Sam Fox, who played her older brother on the popular television show...
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Readers Digest Association, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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"The editors of Reader's Digest present over a 1000 of our all-time favorite jokes, gags and cartoons from the humor pages of our magazine. This hilarious collection offers up some of the funniest moments that get us through our day, in the form of jokes, gags and cartoons that will have readers laughing out loud"--
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Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Featuring subjects from hacking to hipsters, AI to modern art, plastic to post-apocalyptic puns, The Amazing Joke Book will hit your funny bone right where it's needed. Ideal for dipping into, as inspiration for entertaining your friends or making a speech, this bumper book of funnies is guaranteed to provide hundreds of laughs for all the family."--
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Writer's Digest Books
Pub. Date
c2005
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English
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"Become the funniest person in the room! With Comedy Writing Secrets, 2nd edition, you can master the fundamentals of humor writing and turn your comedic talent into a well-paying pursuit." "For more than a decade, Comedy writing Secrets has been giving aspiring comedians a leg up on the competition. In this expanded new edition, Mel Helitzer, named the "funniest professor in the country" by Rolling Stone magazine, and funnyman Mark Shatz pack in...
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