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Today, many of us are feeling the pinch - and being bombarded with portrayals of social media 'perfection' is making that pinch feel more like a punch. We may know that social media - with all its billionaires and beauty queens - is just a highlight reel. So why is it still making most of us feel so low? Comedian Shabaz Ali wants to help you see the funny side of social media again. Because while it looks nice to live up in an ivory tower, this book reminds us that it is much more fun to be part of the baying mob that surrounds it.

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

Dive headfirst into the urban symphony of "Smelling the Taste of Sound", a riveting memoir of a newly diagnosed, neurodivergent trainee lawyer. Her sensory issues are compounded by the sirens that punctuate the daily grind of a tough, inner-city law firm. Amidst encounters with eccentric characters and surreal personalities, our protagonist navigates the chaos and unorthodox office dynamics with comical observations and resilience.

Since winning the Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1993, Dominic Holland has gone on to become one of the UK’s best loved comedians. He’s worked with Armando Iannucci, Rob Brydon and supported Eddie Izzard on tour. He is also the father of Tom Holland (best known for starring in the blockbuster Spider-man movies) and made the brilliant 2017 Dominic Holland Eclipsed Edinburgh Fringe show out of the experience of being a superhero’s dad.

Learn some amazing truths about sports, science, history, and more with this interactive trivia book asking you to spot the lie—perfect for a personal challenge or group game night! Was Cleopatra the last Egyptian pharaoh? Can you really make diamonds out of tequila? Is the platypus actually...

Named by Time as America's Favourite Humorist, the uniquely perceptive and hilarious David Sedaris reads from his essays and diaries for his ninth series for Radio 4. This is the complete recording of Meet David Sedaris Series Nine, which was broadcast on Radio 4. The full listing is: Episode...

This book is a personally written account of Jimmy’s "50 Golden Years", in show business, from holiday camp Redcoat to Bluecoat then onto his first big break on television, (after many struggles), going on to headline for four of his own series for Central television in the 1980s with 'Royal Command Performances' and TV Variety shows in between, then his BBC Radio 2 series written by the great scriptwriter Eddie Braben in the 1990's which ran for five years called, 'Jimmy's Cricket Team'.

A bestselling author and AI team up to write a novel. Chaos ensues. AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more… Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical quagmire from which there is no return? A threat to all our...

Filled with comics and anecdotes, this lighthearted book looks at those born, bred, and buttered in today’s society: typical homosapiens trying to let go of their own childhoods while becoming parents themselves. You know, doing the whole thing of three bedrooms, two baths, and a loft. Cough, a Zoloft. From an adolescent to an adult, this narrative is filled with anecdotal proof that humans are, well, strange creatures. This book is a must-have for new parents, the young and confused, and those who would like to ask why, why on earth do humans thrive, when nature selects?

Paolo Rossi si confessa. Ma rende la sua confessione a una divinità molto particolare: il dio dei ladri, il Bardo William Shakespeare. Tutti gli attori, i commedianti, i contastorie sono infatti ladri: di aneddoti e di idee, di verità e anche di menzogne. Per questo, la «versione di Paolo» è una storia rigorosamente apocrifa e anarchica, disseminata di occasioni e tentazioni, botte date e prese, donne amate e lasciate, poco venerati maestri e pessime compagnie di giro, ideologie e avventure di una sera o di una vita annaffiate da sobrie acque toniche corrette gin.

From the brilliantly demented minds behind The Eric Andre Show and Bad Trip, an insane illustrated compendium about the art of pranking. Eric André is a master of the art of pranking—“an Andy Kaufman for the Four Loko generation,” as Spin magazine once hailed him. For over a decade, he...

With sisterhood providing the moxie, Denise took on leadership positions not common for women at the time: playwright, stage director, producer, and administrative/artistic director. But, in the end, the most important thing her time with Les Nickelettes taught her was the power of female friendship.

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...

“Understated” and “tasteful” could never be applied to Annie, and that’s just fine with her. A colorful actress with a decades-long career in TV, film, and theater—including a recurring role on Seinfeld and a center-stage spot touring with The Moth—Annie offers her trademark unabashed takes on both everyday and typically taboo topics.

For many families, the holiday season is—in a word—unhinged. In no family is that more true than in Danny Pellegrino’s, beloved podcast host of Everything Iconic and bestselling author. Inappropriately improvised monologues at the children's Christmas pageant, presents that land someone in the emergency room, or just sitting on the absolute roller coaster that is a Hallmark movie marathon, the holidays are a strange and magical time in the Pellegrino household. And nobody knows this better than Danny.

One of Canada’s top comedians shares the funniest stories from his life and career in this collection of hilarious essays For more than two decades, Gerry Dee has made audiences laugh, first as a hard-working stand-up comedian, and then as the star of his own CBC television program, Mr. D. Dee...

'It may be the funniest thing ever committed to sound' DAVID BADDIEL 'The audiobook is an absolute dream' RICHARD OSMAN 'Not only has Alan Partridge created an entirely new storytelling structure, it's very funny indeed' JON RONSON 'Partridge... has become the man our time deserves. Aha!' THE...

I work with the world's most unintentionally hilarious woman. We'll call her Elsie W. What you are about to listen to is true, only the names have been changed to protect the author from certain unemployment. This is my job. This is the life I live. Someone help me!

In this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching the president, and all the dad issues she collected along the way. As the youngest of four in a tight-knit Jamaican family, Cooper cut her teeth in the mean cornfields of...

Von der Rechtschreibreform zur gendergerechten Sprache, von der Vogelgrippe zu den Metamorphosen des Covid, vom Vermummungsverbot in Zeiten der Startbahn West zur Maskenpflicht in Zeiten der Pipeline Ost - was haben wir nicht schon alles überstanden! Bei seiner satirischen Zeitreise durch unsere immer bunter werdende Republik setzt Urban Priol auf Humor statt Alarmismus. Gemeinsam mit Helmut Kohl betrat er die Bühne des politischen Kabaretts, seitdem knöpft er sich alle Regierenden bis zur Ampel vor.