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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Crosley's easy, charming voice in the face of minor suffering or potential drudgery has been described as a mix between Dorothy Parker and David Sedaris. In these hilarious and insightful essays, she packs up her sensibility and takes readers with her to Paris, to Portugal (where she falls in with a group of Portuguese clowns), and to Alaska (where she discovers wearing bear bells is a matter of self-defense). Then it's back to New York, where new...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this new addition to her essay collection catalogue, Rivenbark is as rebellious, irreverent, and comical as ever. The author's signature blend of social satire, quizzical musings on human nature, and over-the-top down-home humor are directed at everything from Bernie Madoff to Snuggies to people who (slowly) write (Disney characterembellished) checks even when they're in an exceptionally long line at Wal-Mart.
28) Pure drivel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of Martin's comic writings, some of which first appeared in: The New Yorker.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In these personal essays, the hilarious comedian and Chelsea Lately host reflects on family, love life, and the absurdities of adulthood with "cheeky candor" and signature wit (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the...
Life doesn't get more hilarious than when Chelsea Handler takes aim with her irreverent wit. Who else would send all-staff emails to smoke out the dumbest people on her show? Now, in this new collection of original essays, the...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
xvi, 240 pages, [8 pages of plates] : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The four-time Emmy-nominated comic satirist of Rescue Me presents irreverent cultural observations about how society is taking itself too seriously, in an account that shares anecdotes from his Irish-Catholic upbringing, high-pressure family life, and work as a performing artist.
Author
Series
New rules trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Rodale
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
viii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
37) Bossypants
Author
Language
English
Description
From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy.
Author
Series
Dennis the Menace volume 5
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First Fantagraphics Books edition.
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 17 cm
Language
English
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