Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Form - Essays

Who is "the girl"? Look to movies, TV shows, magazines, and ads and the message is both clear and not: she is a sexed up sidekick, a princess waiting to be saved, a morally infallible angel with no opinions of her own. She's whatever the hero needs her to be in order to become himself. She's an abstraction, an ideal, a standard, a mercurial phantom.

From the moment we're...

"Jeff Mackwood's lively vignettes form a vivid memoir revealing a sensitive and caring father, husband and son who bravely faced serious health issues, the death of his parents and the dramatic birth of a grand¬child. We share his sad concern and cheer with him when the baby finally begins to breathe. Jeff traveled the world, experiencing other cultures and droll situations which he recounts with an eye for amusing detail, noted while consuming many margaritas and quantities of beer. Despite work and family, travel and travails, he found time to excel in extreme sports practiced in...

The illustrated story of Eric and Ernie's early years as variety entertainers, and the first ever biography to reveal how they became Britain's best loved comedy double act.

Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise were Britain's greatest ever double act, but there's never been a book which really revealed the era that made them such a special part of our national culture. Until now. Although they ended up on TV, they started out in variety, and their record-breaking Christmas shows were a secret homage to that forgotten world. For a quarter of a century, from the early Forties until the late...

During the course of his life, Dave Barry has learned much of wisdom, and he is eager to pass it on. Among other brilliant, brand-new pieces, Dave shares home truths with his new grandson and his daughter Sophie; explores the hometown of his youth, where all the parents seemed to be having un-Mad Men-like fun; and dives into firsthand accounts of the soccer craziness of Brazil and the just plain crazy craziness of...

The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar's father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life.

What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar's three-year-old son's...

Issue #4 of the all-star print humor quarterly in trade paperback format This issue features writers from Late Night with David Letterman, The New Yorker, SNL, The Onion, SPY and National Lampoon, as well as illustrations and cartoons from Roz Chast, Drew Friedman, Charles Barsotti, Jack Ziegler, M.K. Brown and 75 others. Full-color, large format (8.5x11) and 100 pages, The American Bystander #4 is a worthy addition to any comedy fan's library.

Tips and Strategies for Embracing Life After 50 from AgingButDANGEROUS.com(R) Our conversations had turned from wine, weddings and weekend getaways to what was happening to our wit, wallets and waistlines. And it wasn't just one single issue. We were experiencing a multitude of converging shifts in how we perceived and experienced life. Was it our age? DON'T PEE ON MY SOFA AND OTHER THINGS TO LAUGH ABOUT shares that humorous journey.

"Suzanne Bates is one smart-mouthed woman - and I love it With candid stories and canny solutions derived from her personal experiences, her book...

Business travel may sound like an adventure to those who don't have to live it, however as author Bruce Blanton knows, unscripted scenarios come into play all the time -- some thrilling and some down right bizarre

Blanton shares some of his more unusual travel experiences in Time Zones, Beer, and Left-Handed Chopsticks. Readers will be treated to stories about excessively flatulent seatmates, "foreign" toilets, odd customs, used appetizers, and many other humorous misadventures.

Incredibly entertaining and remarkably well written, Time Zones, Beer, and...

The story of a family's life told from the point of view of "The Cat." Bella's perspective is funny, snarky and perceptive as she manages her four minions: Squishy, Rumble, Popcorn and Cuddle. When a tabby interloper enters the scene, Bella must grapple with sharing all that is most precious to her. A cat of infinite complexity, Bella endures.

As the author of four humorous memoirs, activist and comedian Fay Jacobs returns with her newest tall tales, Fried & Convicted, Rehoboth Beach Uncorked. And, as you'd expect, It's chock-full of Fay's signature witty, wise, and often laugh-out-loud commentary about the craziness of contemporary life in the diverse and welcoming resort town of Rehoboth Beach on the Delaware Coast.

This time, though, everyone's favorite "Sit-Down Comic" grapples with the insanity of a high-tech bra, cartoon bladders in prescription advertising, and refusing to act her age . . .

Fried &...

Her first book, Plumdog, made her thousands of new friends. Every one of them will want Plum's guidance as she leads us on the Path to Perfection.

Duck and Cover is a wry, laconic memoir penned by Kathie Farnell, based on her perspective as a smart-mouthed, unreasonably optimistic white girl growing up in Cloverdale, a genteel and neatly landscaped neighborhood of Montgomery, Alabama, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During those decades Montgomery's social order was slowly--very slowly--changing. The bus boycott was over if not forgotten, Normandale Shopping Center had a display of the latest fallout shelters, and integration was on the horizon, though many still thought the water in the white and colored drinking fountains...

The wildly popular YouTube personality and author of the New York Times bestseller My Drunk Kitchen is back This time, she's stirring up memories and tales from her past.

By combing through the journals that Hannah has kept for much of her life, this collection of narrative essays deliver a fuller picture of her life, her experiences, and the things she's figured out about family, faith, love, sexuality, self-worth, friendship and fame.

Revealing what makes Hannah tick, this sometimes cringe-worthy, poignant collection of stories is sure to deliver plenty of...

Heather Holloway McCash was born butt first. She's been living her life backwards ever since. Her memoir features sotries and poems--in reverse chronological order--about her love life, struggle with Lyme Disease, experience living in New York during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, early foray into ballet, close encounters with celebrities, and battles with corporate dragons. Despite some tough setbacks, Heather cartwheels through life with grace, demonstrating that it's never too late to reinvent oneself and, no matter the circumstances, fun is just around the corner . . . or in the next city...