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Ellen DeGeneres, comedian and star of the television sitcom Ellen, discusses her humorous attempt to train for the Iditarod with…
her two pet dogs in California and explains the perks of being a celebrity, including being allowed to add five days to milk's expiration date. She rambles on through various topics until, as she says, she has written the sixty thousand words her contract calls for. Some strong language. Bestseller
Monologues and jokes from the black comedian Chris Rock. Rock started on the Saturday Night Live comedy show and graduated…
to his own television spot, the Chris Rock Show. Rock explores current social issues such as racism, poverty, drugs, and sex. Strong language and descriptions of sex. Bestseller
The thousands of jokes from Berle's sixty years in vaudeville, radio, television, and the movies are arranged alphabetically by more…
than five hundred subjects. Includes an introduction and a "tricks of the trade" advice section
Battle Creek, Michigan, 1907. C.W. Post and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg are becoming famous for their breakfast cereals. Post has…
a diner, and Kellogg has opened a spa, where he extols the value of healthy eating and exercise to cure "autointoxication"--too much meat and too much sex. Will and Eleanor Lightbody have come for the cure, but Will almost dies taking it. And Charles Ossining wants to get a piece of the cereal business. Some strong language
Ranges over such subjects as the nature of relativity, the UFO menace, and the predicament of modern man--as well as…
Woody Allen's favorite topics: sex, death, and religion. In these sixteen selections Allen displays his versatility with the written word and his special brand of humor. Bestseller
In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran…
Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka 'The Rooster'.With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.
In David Sedaris's world, no one is safe and no cow is sacred. A manic cross between Mark Leyner, Fran…
Lebowitz and the National Enquirer, Sedaris's collection of stories and essays is a rollicking tour through the American Zeitgeist: a man who is loved too much flees the heavyweight champion of the world; a teenage suicide tried to incite a lynch mob at her funeral; and in his essays, David Sedaris considers the hazards of rewards of smoking, writing for Giantess magazine, and living with his scrappy brother Paul, aka 'The Rooster'.With a perfect eye and a voice infused with as much empathy as wit, Sedaris writes and reads stories and essays that target the soulful ridiculousness of our behaviour. Barrel Fever is like a blind date with modern life - and anything can happen.