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Lizz Free Or Die

Lizz Winstead

"Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and one of today's most hilarious comedians and insightful social critics, pens a brilliant account of how she discovered her comedic voice.In this collection of autobiographical essays, Winstead vividly recounts how she fought to find her own voice, both as a comedian and as a woman, and how humor became her most powerful weapon in confronting lif

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Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

Patton Oswalt · 191 pages

Best known for his roles in the films "Big Fan" and "Ratatouille," as well as the hit show "The King of Queens," Oswalt has been amusing audiences for decades. Now he offers a fascinating look into his most unusual and lovable mind.

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I Like You Just the Way I Am: Stories About Me and Some Other People

Jenny Mollen · 258 pages

"Jenny Mollen is an actress and writer living in Los Angeles. She is also a wife, married to a famous guy (which is annoying only because he gets free [stuff] and she doesn't). She doesn't want much from life. Just to be loved by everybody: her parents, her dogs, her ex-boyfriends, her ex-boyfriends, dogs, her husband, her husband's ex-girlfriends, her husband's ex-girlfriend's new boyfriends, etc

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Nothing's Sacred

Lewis Black · 250 pages

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Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall Tales

Ali Wentworth · 246 pages

Chelsea Handler meets Nora Ephron in this uproarious memoir from the acclaimed actress and comedian. Wentworth takes us through the looking glass and into the wonderland of her life, from a childhood among Washington's elite to a stint in the psych ward they called a New England prep school; days doing L.A. sketch comedy to a series of spectacularly failed loves that eventually led her to Mr. Rig

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Has Anyone Seen My Pants?

Sarah Colonna · 278 pages

New York Times bestselling author Sarah Colonna is back with a hilarious, honest look at life in her late thirties--in all its messy, pants-missing glory.

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Whoopi Goldberg · 256 pages

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If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother

Julia Sweeney · 246 pages

While Julia Sweeney is known as a talented comedienne and writer/performer of her one-woman shows, she is also a talented essayist--and the past few years have provided her with some rich material. Julia adopted a Chinese girl named Mulan and then, a few years later, married and moved from Los Angeles to Chicago. She writes about deciding to adopt her child, strollers, nannies, knitting, being ado

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Yes Please

Amy Poehler · 329 pages

Part memoir, part 'missive-from-the-middle', Yes Please is a hilarious collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, haikus and words-to-live-by drawn from the life and mind of acclaimed actress, writer and comedian Amy Poehler.

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My Point...And I Do Have One

Ellen DeGeneres · 211 pages

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Ellen DeGeneres shares her hilarious take on everything from our most baffling human foibles--including how we behave in elevators, airplanes, and restrooms, and why we're so scared of the boogeyman--to fashion trends, celebrity, and her secret recipe for Ellen's Real Frenchy French Toast. Most of all, this witty, engaging book offers insights into the mind of

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Fatherhood

Bill Cosby · 178 pages

"A Dolphin book." A collection of ruminations, anecdotes, and vignettes based on Cosby's experiences as a son and father.

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Binge

Tyler Oakley · 307 pages

"Pop culture phenomenon, social rights advocate, and the most prominent LGBTQ voice on YouTube, Tyler Oakley brings you his first collection of witty, personal, and hilarious essays written in the voice that's earned him more than twenty-one million followers across social media. For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the Internet, Tyler Oakley has a shocking number of personal misha

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Scrappy Little Nobody

Anna Kendrick · 288 pages

"A collection of whimsical autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air recounts memorable milestones from her New England upbringing to the blockbuster films that have made her one of Hollywood's most popular actresses,"--Baker & Taylor.

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Food: A Love Story

Jim Gaffigan · 346 pages

""What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here's why: I'm a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I'd highly recommend that you do not read his book." Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American

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Dancing Barefoot

Wil Wheaton · 115 pages

Examines life, love, the web, and the absurdities of Hollywood in these compelling autobiographical narratives. Based on pieces first published in Wil's blog, www.wilwheaton.net.

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Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation

Aisha Tyler · 231 pages

"On the wildly popular podcast "Girl on Guy," comedian and actress Aisha Tyler asks her guests to recount moments from their lives when they've done something boneheaded, ill conceived, dangerous, or just plain stupid...to themselves. In Self-Inflicted Wounds, Aisha turns the lens on herself-recounting her most egregious mistakes--to hilarious result. Laugh out loud funny, and totally relatable, S

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I'm Your Biggest Fan: Awkward Encounters and Assorted Misadventures in Celebrity Journalism

Kate Coyne · 246 pages

"Hilarious essays about awkward run-ins with celebrities, the nature of celebrity, and what it says about our culture, by the Executive Editor of People Magazine. --Provided by the publisher"--

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Actually, Nevermind

Taylor Tomlinson

In a collection of essays, the comedian reflects upon her life as she approaches the same age her mother was when she died. Read by the author. 5 hours, 31 minutes unabridged.

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I Shudder

Paul Rudnick

A hilariously funny, touching, and revelatory book from one of America's preeminent humorists In his plays, his screenplays, and his writing for the New Yorker and Premiere, Paul Rudnick has established himself as a comic master whose talents transcend genre. Now, in I Shudder, he trains his wickedly perceptive eye on everything from his New Jersey family to Hollywood to demented alcoholic Broadwa

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