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What happens when the alarm clock stops ringing… but life doesn’t? In Every Day is Saturday, retirement isn’t a quiet rocking chair on the porch - it’s a full-contact sport. After decades of schedules, responsibilities, and living by someone else’s clock, stepping into retirement feels equal parts freedom and confusion. There are long mornings, unexpected adventures, shifting identities, and the startling realization that “doing nothing” is much harder than it sounds.

From his humble beginnings in sketch comedy with the Toronto branch of Second City, to his rise to fame in SCTV and Hollywood film classics like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Great Outdoors, and Uncle Buck, John Candy captivated audiences with his self-deprecating humor, emotional warmth, and gift for improvisation. Now, for the first time since Candy's tragic death, bestselling biographer Paul Myers tells the full story of the man behind the laughs.

How Comedy Saved My Life is the brutally honest, darkly funny, and ultimately redemptive story of John Perrotta—a Rhode Island prison guard by day, stand-up comic by night. For decades, John lived two lives. On stage, he was a relentless crowd-work master, booking gigs with rising legends like Bill Burr, Lenny Clarke, Tammy Pescatelli, and Tom Cotter. Off stage, he was drowning in booze, gambling, and drugs, hitting rock bottom more times than he can count—until a near-death experience forced him to make the biggest comeback of his life.

¿Hay alguien que no haya reído con este artista de talla mundial? Charles Chaplin, el gran "Charlot", fue un actor, director, escritor, productor y compositor británico ganador del Óscar de Hollywood. Con casi 90 películas de cine mudo y sonoro, ha llegado a convertirse en la figura más representativa del cine mudo, el cual le ha dado su fama mundial y la consideración de uno de los grandes genios de la historia del cine.

Roger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognized as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films - from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits. But shadowing his phenomenal career was a history of increasingly bizarre behaviour involving psychotic violence, compulsive promiscuity, drug abuse and humiliating self-destructive obsessions with people including Princess Margaret, Sophia Loren, Liza Minnelli and each of his four wives.

In an intimate portrait penned by the close friend Terry chose to write his memoir, Seriously Silly is the story of one our greatest comedy legends. Taking in his major successes as well as his personal battles, it is the whole story, from his start as a war baby in the picturesque coastal town of Colwyn Bay, to meeting his lifelong friend Michael Palin at Oxford and the journey that took him on a convoluted pathway through revue sketches, anarchic children's shows, Monty Python, TV presenting and beyond.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From comedian, Emmy-nominated writer and producer, and former Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr., an unforgettable, laugh-out-loud funny memoir revealing that sometimes the best advice comes from the most surprising teachers “Honest, raw, and an absolute treat to...

The Sunday Times top 10 bestseller. Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his revealing autobiography. This audio edition is hilariously read by Michael himself. Michael’s first book ended with his big break at the 2006 Royal Variety Performance. Waking up...

One moment can change everything — but it doesn’t have to end the story. In If You Have Five Minutes to Spare , Dominic Hurley BEM shares an honest, often funny, and deeply human memoir of life after a traumatic brain injury. After a life-altering accident at just twenty-one, Dominic was forced to rethink everything he thought he knew about normality, disability, memory, and identity. This is not a polished tale of instant triumph. It’s a real story of recovery — told with humour, frustration, warmth, and unfiltered truth.

For anyone who loves American comedy, the long wait is over. Here are the never-before-told, behind-the-scenes anecdotes and remembrances from a master storyteller, filmmaker, and creator of all things funny. All About Me! charts Mel Brooks' meteoric rise from a Depression-era kid in Brooklyn to the recipient of the National Medal of Arts. 

Brought to you by Penguin. Lee Evans is one of the best-loved comedians in the country; a Hollywood star able to sell out arenas in the blink of eye. But he was not always such a roaring success. Read unabridged by the man himself, and with the humour (and the voices!) that he brings to the...

Graham Norton has been entertaining audiences and having fun with some of the world's biggest stars for nearly twenty years. He is loved across the nation for his delight in the peculiar and for his ability to find humour and a common ground in all that life brings. The Life and Loves of a He...

Bloomsbury presents Barry Cryer: Same Time Tomorrow? written and read by Bob Cryer. Foreword by Sandi Toksvig | WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: ENTERTAINMENT 'Give this book to everyone you know – NOW!' Miriam Margolyes 'This is a joyous, uplifting book' Observer 'He was so funny and such fun...

The riveting, poignant and remarkably honest biography from Britain's biggest comedy star, Michael McIntyre, brought to you by Penguin. His debut stand-up DVD, Live & Laughing, was the fastest selling of all time. Now he hosts his own BAFTA nominated BBC1 series, Michael McIntyre's Comedy...

'The millennial David Sedaris' ADAM KAY 'It's a cry for help, but it's a very funny one' DARA Ó BRIAIN 'All the laughs you'd expect from such a talented comedian' STEPHEN MERCHANT 'Brilliantly written, funny and makes me love him a lot. How annoying' AISLING BEA ______________ A refreshingly...

Bloomsbury presents Cry for Me, Argentina written and read by Tamara Yajia NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND NPR “Tamara is one of the funniest people I know and her memoir is as hilarious as she is.” --Cecily Strong “Tamara’s life story is fascinating.” --Taika Waititi A...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This book is the inspirational story that we all need. No one makes me laugh harder than Leanne Morgan!”—Reese Witherspoon Look for Leanne Morgan’s new standup special, Unspeakable Things, and her hit sitcom, Leanne, both available on Netflix. The beloved...

As a stand-up comedian during the Covid-19 pandemic, Brandon reluctantly becomes a driver to make ends meet. These are his stories.

‘Pacy, witty and affectionate’ Guardian Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television and comedy, he’s the laddie, cockney geezer, but to his mates down the pub in south-east London, he’s the theatrical one, a media luvvie. Even at home, his wife and...

Jack Dee is here to help. Too often today the emphasis in psychotherapy is on providing clients with a metaphorical hug when what they so clearly need is good slap, so Jack Dee took the matter into his own hands, and whilst everyone else was baking bread and clearing out their cupboards during lockdown, he retrained online as a psychotherapist. After an incredibly gruelling four hours of study, he got his certificate of completion from The Ruislip College of Advansed Learning (sic).