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- "Something like this--" : the Bob Newhart anthology
- "The jumping frog": : In English. Then in French. Then clawed back into a civilized language once more by patient, unremunerated toil (1865 & 1879)
- true#Newsfail : climate change, feminism, gun control, and other fun stuff we talk about because nobody else will
- 1,349 hilarious jokes
- 1000 tips and quips for speakers and toastmasters
- 1000 years of laughter : an anthology of classic comic prose
- 1001 Amazing Jokes
- 1001 more humorous illustrations for public speaking
- 101 Amazing Book Title Jokes
- 101 Amazing Food Jokes
- 101 Amazing Jokes
- 101 Amazing Knock Knock Jokes
- 101 Amazing Space Jokes
- 101 amazing doctor doctor jokes
- 101 damnations: : the humorists' tour of personal hells
- 2,501 Things That Really Piss Me Off: : a Catalog of Insults and Intrusions That are Sure to Ruin My Day
- 200 m.p.h.
- 2000 year old man : 2000 years with Carl Reiner & Mel Brooks
- 2776 : a Levinson Bros & Rob Kutner presentation
- true5 very good reasons to punch a dolphin in the mouth : (and other useful guides)
- 5 very good reasons to punch a dolphin in the mouth: : (and other useful guides)
- 501 things to do with a zombie
- 777 great clean jokes : a sparkling collection of unsullied humor
- 99 ways to open a beer bottle without a bottle opener
- A cat's little instruction book
- A day in the life of Roger Angell: : parodies and other pleasures
- trueA load of hooey : a collection of new short humor fiction
- A place for my stuff!
- A prairie home collection : great moments from the original radio show
- A prairie home companion pretty good joke book
- A prairie home companion, 40th anniversary collection
- All new letters from a nut
- All over the place
- trueAll the presidents' pets : the inside story of one reporter who refused to roll over
- Amazing Amy, Tattle tale
- Amelia rules!, 1, Amelia vs. the sneeze barf
- Amelia rules!, 2, Amelia and the gym class system
- America again : re-becoming the greatness we never weren't
- trueAmerica again : re-becoming the greatness we never weren't
- American wit and wisdom: : quips and quotes in celebration of the USA
- Americans are punny people : recognizing humor in everyday situations
- An encyclopedia of humor
- trueAndy Rooney: 60 years of wisdom and wit
- Another treasury of clean jokes
- trueAnt farm : and other desperate situations
- Are you dissing me?: : what animals really think
- As I Lay Frying
- Ask me about my new God!
- Austin's blueprint for laughter
- trueAway with words : an irreverent tour through the world of pun competitions
- Awesome sh*t my drill sergeant said : wit and wisdom from America's finest
- Babyhood
- trueBabyhood
- Barefoot boy with cheek
- Be brave : Peanuts wisdom to carry you through
- trueBe ready when the sh*t goes down : a survival guide to the apocalypse
- trueBeautifully unique sparkleponies : on myths, morons, free speech, football, and assorted absurdities
- trueBelle weather : mostly sunny with a chance of scattered hissy fits
- Best. state. ever. : a Florida man defends his homeland
- trueBest. state. ever. : a Florida man defends his homeland
- Beyond the pale
- trueBig kiss : one actor's desperate attempt to claw his way to the top
- Billy Crystal 700 Sundays
- Black man, White House : an oral history of the Obama years
- Black man, White House : an oral history of the Obama years
- trueBless your heart, tramp
- Blue collar comedy tour : one for the road
- Blue collar comedy tour rides again : [original motion picture soundtrack]
- Blue collar comedy tour, the movie : original motion picture soundtrack
- trueBob Hope : my life in jokes
- Bon mots, wisecracks, and gags: : the wit of Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, and the Algonquin Round Table
- trueBoogers are my beat : more lies, but some actual journalism
- trueBoogers are my beat : more lies, but some actual journalism
- trueBook
- trueBorges' Travel, Hemingway's Garage : secret histories
- trueBossypants
- Bossypants
- trueBossypants
- Boyish girl interrupted
- trueBrain droppings
- Braindroppings
- Braindroppings
- Bruce! : adventures in the skin trade and other essays
- trueBut enough about you : essays
- trueCalypso
- Camels are easy, comedy's hard
- Car Talk : born not to run : more disrespectful car songs
- Car Talk : tales of the Brothers Grime
- Car talk : the hatchback of Notre Dame
- Car talk field guide to the North American wacko
- Car talk. : the greatest stories ever told : once upon a car fire
- Carlin at Carnegie
- Carlin at Carnegie : Carlin on campus
- trueCarry this book
- Charley Weaver's letters from mamma
- Cheech & Chong
- trueChelsea Chelsea bang bang
- Chicago stories: : 40 dramatic fictions
- Chonda Pierce on her soapbox
- Chonda Pierce presents stand-up for families, Home is where the heart is
- Chuckles
- Church people : the Lutherans of Lake Wobegon
- Cinco
- Colin Quinn : long story short
- Collected prose
- Come inside me
- Comedy ain't pretty
- Comedy comes clean : a hilarious collection of wholesome jokes, quotes, and one-liners
- trueCommon nonsense
- trueCommon nonsense
- Common nonsense
- Completely Mad : a history of the comic book and magazine
- Confessions of a late night talk show host : the autobiography of Larry Sanders
- Couplehood
- Cowboy logic : the wit and wisdom of Kinky Friedman (and some of his friends)
- trueCrackpot : the obsessions of John Waters
- Crazy with a capital F
- trueCreated in darkness by troubled Americans : the best of McSweeney's, humor category
- trueDad is fat
- Daddy, stop talking!: : and other things my kids want but won't be getting
- trueDan gets a minivan : life at the intersection of dude and dad
- trueDan gets a minivan : life at the intersection of dude and dad
- trueDan gets a minivan : life at the intersection of dude and dad
- trueDan gets a minivan : life at the intersection of dude and dad
- Dana Gould : let me put my thoughts in you
- trueDarth Vader and friends
- trueDarth Vader and son
- Dave Attell, Captain Miserable
- trueDave Barry does Japan
- trueDave Barry is from Mars and Venus
- trueDave Barry is not making this up
- trueDave Barry is not making this up
- trueDave Barry is not taking this sitting down!
- trueDave Barry talks back
- Dave Barry's complete guide to guys
- trueDave Barry's history of the millennium (so far)
- trueDave Barry's history of the millennium (so far)
- trueDavid Letterman's book of top ten lists and zesty lo-cal chicken recipes
- Deep thoughts
- trueDeliriously happy
- trueDisaster preparedness : a memoir
- trueDishing with the kitchen virgin
- trueDispatches from the tenth circle : the best of The onion
- trueDisquiet, please : more humor writing from The New Yorker
- Disquiet, please! : more humor writing from the New Yorker
- Do you believe in gosh?
- Does anybody have a problem with that? : Politically incorrect's greatest hits
- trueDogfight at the Pentagon : sergeant dogs, grumpy cats, wallflower wingmen, and other lunacy from The Wall Street Journal's A-Hed column
- Doing my time
- trueDrivel : deliciously bad writing by your favorite authors
- Droll pranks for rich boys: : the wealthy young gentleman's guide to horseplay
- Drop dead gorgeous : in a down-to-earth bombshell sort of way
- Dropping anchors
- Drunk stoned brilliant dead : writers and artists who made the National lampoon insanely great
- Earthquake : these ain't jokes!
- Eddie Ifft live
- trueEgghead : or, you can't survive on ideas alone
- trueElf girl
- Ellen Degeneres : here and now : modern life and other inconveniences
- Encyclopedia neurotica
- Encyclopædia of hell : an invasion manual for demons concerning the planet Earth and the human race which infests it
- Every day is an Atheist holiday!
- trueEvery day is an atheist holiday! : more magical tales from the author of God, no!
- trueEverybody is awful (except you!)
- Everybody is stupid except for me and other astute observations : a decade's worth of cartoon reporting for Reason magazine
- trueEverything is awful : and other observations
- trueFamilyhood
- Familyhood
- Fat Albert
- trueFat is the new 30 : the Sweet Potato Queens' guide to coping with (the crappy parts of) life
- Feminist Ryan Gosling : feminist theory as imagined from your favorite sensitive movie dude
- Fierce pajamas : an anthology of humor writing from the New Yorker
- Fierce pajamas : selections from an anthology of humor writing from the New Yorker
- For Frying Out Loud
- For your consideration
- Fork on the left, knife in the back
- Fresh air : laughs
- Fried & True
- Fuds : a complete encyclofoodia from tickling shrimp to not dying in a restaurant
- Fun with Kirk and Spock : a parody
- Funny bidness : da album
- Funny letters from famous people
- Gallagher : the sledge-o-matic collection, Disc 2
- Gallagher, Over your head
- Gallagher, Stuck in the sixties
- Gallagher, The smashing watermelon collection
- Games rednecks play
- Garrison Keillor : the man on the radio in the red shoes
- Garrison Keillor : the man on the radio in the red shoes
- Gary Gulman, boyish man
- Gasping for airtime : [two years in the trenches of Saturday night live]
- Gathering moss : rest stops on the road downhill
- Geek handbook 2.0 : more practical skills and advice for the modern likeable geek
- Gene Perret's funny business : speaker's treasury of business humor for all occasions
- George Carlin : back in town
- George Carlin again!
- George Carlin personal favorites
- George Carlin reads to you : an audio collection including recent grammy winners Braindroppings and Napalm & silly putty
- George Carlin, Complaints and grievances
- George's best stuff
- George's best stuff
- Get a laugh! : over 500 jokes and anecdotes about modern life
- Get out of my room
- trueGet your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye
- Gilbert
- Gilbert : a Gilbert Gottfried story
- trueGit-r-done
- Git-r-done
- Go de Rass to Sleep
- trueGo the F**k to sleep
- Go the f**k to sleep
- trueGo the fuck to sleep
- Goat lips : tales of a lapsed Englishman
- God is a twelve-year-old boy with asperger's
- God save the Sweet Potato Queens
- trueGod, no! : signs you may already be an atheist and other magical tales
- God, no! : signs you may already be an atheist and other magical tales
- God, no! : signs you may already be an atheist and other magical tales
- God, no! : signs you may already be an atheist and other magical tales
- Good talk, dad
- trueGoodnight Darth Vader
- Great political wit : laughing (almost) all the way to the White House
- Greatest comedy hits
- Greatest hits
- Greatest hits
- Groucho Marx and other short stories and tall tales : selected writings of Groucho Marx
- trueGrown-a$$ man
- Gumpisms : the wit and wisdom of Forrest Gump
- trueHalf empty
- trueHalf empty
- Half empty
- Half-life/die already : how I died & lived to tell about it
- Happy thoughts
- Have You Heard the One About . . : more Than 500 Side-Splitting Jokes!
- Have you seen me lately?
- Hayward's humor
- Heather McDonald : "I don't mean to brag ..."
- Hilarious
- Hilarious
- Hogs wild : selected reporting pieces
- Hollywood said no! : orphaned film scripts, bastard scenes, and abandoned darlings from the creators of Mr. Show
- Hollywood said no!: : orphaned film scripts, bastard scenes, and abandoned darlings from the creators of Mr. Show
- Hot guys and cute chicks
- trueHow I got this way
- How not to act old : 185 ways to pass for phat, sick, hot, dope, awesome, or at least not totally lame
- trueHow not to kill your baby
- How to Be Inappropriate
- How to appear normal at social events : and other essential wisdom
- How to attract the wombat
- trueHow to be inappropriate
- trueHow to be the funniest kid in the whole wide world (or just in your class)
- How to fight presidents : defending yourself against the badasses who ran this country
- trueHow to fight, lie, and cry your way to popularity (and a prom date) : lousy life lessons from 50 teen movies
- How to move to Canada: : a discontented American's guide to Canadian relocation / Andrâe Du Broc
- How to rent a Negro
- trueHow to sharpen pencils
- How to survive a garden gnome attack : defend yourself when the lawn warriors strike (and they will)
- Humor from Harper's
- Humorous American short stories: : selections from Mark Twain to others much more recent
- trueI am America (and so can you!)
- trueI am a pole (and so can you!)
- trueI am a pole (and so can you!)
- I come to you from the future: : everything you'll need to know before you know it
- I didn't ask to be born (but I'm glad I was
- I didn't ask to be born (but I'm glad I was)
- trueI drink for a reason
- I drink for a reason
- I drink for a reason
- I found this funny : my favorite pieces of humor, and, some that may not be funny at all
- trueI have chosen to stay and fight
- I highly recommend this
- trueI know I am, but what are you?
- I love you more than you know
- trueI only roast the ones I love : how to bust balls without burning bridges
- trueI rant, therefore I am
- I really didn't think this through : tales from my so-called adult life
- I remember nothing : [and other reflections]
- I remember nothing : [and other reflections]
- trueI remember nothing : and other reflections
- trueI still have it-- I just can't remember where I put it : confessions of a fiftysomething
- I suck at girls
- trueI suck at girls
- I suck at girls
- trueI totally meant to do that
- trueI want you to shut the f#ck up : how the audacity of dopes is ruining America
- I was told there'd be cake : essays
- I'd rather be short : 100 reasons why it's great to be small
- I'll be sober in the morning : great political comebacks, putdowns & ripostes
- trueI'll mature when I'm dead : Dave Barry's amazing tales of adulthood
- trueI'll mature when I'm dead : Dave Barry's amazing tales of adulthood
- I'll mature when I'm dead : [Dave Barry's amazing tales of adulthood]
- I'll mature when I'm dead : [Dave Barry's amazing tales of adulthood]
- I'm dangerous...I'm not gonna lie
- I'm dreaming of a black Christmas
- trueI'm dreaming of a black Christmas
- I'm just a person
- I'm just a person
- trueI'm kind of a big deal : and other delusions of adequacy
- trueIf I were a man, I'd marry me
- If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits?
- trueIf the gods had meant us to vote they would have given us candidates : more political subversion from Jim Hightower, author of There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes & dead armadillos
- Improvisations to music
- In God we rust
- In God we rust
- In God we trust : all others pay cash
- trueIn fifty years we'll all be chicks : -- and other complaints from an angry middle-aged white guy
- trueIn fifty years we'll all be chicks : [and other complaints from an angry middle-aged white guy]
- In living black & white
- trueIn our humble opinion : Car talk's Click and Clack rant and rave
- trueIn the event of my untimely demise : twenty things my son needs to know
- Indian comedy tour
- Intimate moments for a sensual evening
- trueInto the twilight, endlessly grousing
- Irony lives!
- trueIs everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns)
- Is everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns)
- trueIs everyone hanging out without me? (and other concerns)
- It looked different on the model : [epic tales of impending shame and infamy]
- trueIt looked different on the model : epic tales of impending shame and infamy
- It looked different on the model : epic tales of impending shame and infamy
- It was over when-- : tales of romantic dead ends
- It's not funny
- trueIt's not me, it's you : subjective recollections from a terminally optimistic, chronically sarcastic, and occasionally inebriated woman
- Iterating grace : heartfelt wisdom and disruptive truths from Silicon Valley's top venture capitalists
- James Thurber : the life and hard times
- Jimmy Hoffa called my mom a bitch!: : profiles in stupidity
- Jo Koy : don't make him angry
- Joke soup : 1,217 of the funniest jokes from the best comedians
- Jokes every man should know
- Just when I thought I'd heard everything : humorous observations on life in America
- K is for knifeball: : an alphabet of terrible advice
- Kathy Griffin's celebrity run-ins : my A-Z index
- Keep your mouth shut! : and other things I can't do
- Keep your skirt on : kicky columns with legs
- trueKerplunk! : stories
- trueKerplunk! : stories
- Kevin Hart : what now?
- Kids are weird
- trueKids are weird : and other observations from parenthood
- trueKilroy was here : the best American humor from World War II
- Kyle Cease: : weirder, blacker, dimpler
- La Dolce Musto
- Lake Wobegon U.S.A.
- Larry the Cable Guy git-r-done
- Last call at the 7-eleven : fine dining at 2 a.m., the search for spandex people, and other reasons to go on living
- Laughter therapy : a comedy collection for the chronically serious
- Laughter therapy, Funny for a living.
- trueLea's book of rules for the world
- Leader of the banned
- trueLet's explore diabetes with owls
- Let's explore diabetes with owls : essays, etc.
- trueLet's explore diabetes with owls : essays, etc.
- Letters from a nut
- trueLetters from the earth : uncensored writings
- Letters from the earth : uncensored writings
- Lies that Chelsea Handler told me
- trueLies that Chelsea Handler told me
- Lies, sissies, and fiascoes : the best of "This American Life"
- Life these days : stories from Lake Wobegon
- Lincoln's gift : how humor shaped Lincoln's life and legacy
- trueLittle Billy's letters : an incorrigible inner child's correspondence with the famous, infamous, and just plain bewildered
- Little nuggets of wisdom: : big advice from the small star of Chelsea Lately
- Live
- Live
- Live at the Cactus Cafe : what was I thinking?
- Live at the Westbeth Theater
- Live bait
- Live from New York : an uncensored history of Saturday night live
- Loser goes first : my thirty-something years of dumb luck and minor humiliation
- Love all the people : letters, lyrics, routines
- Love all the people : the essential Bill Hicks
- Mail for Mikey : an odd sort of recovery memoir
- Mark Twain's book of animals
- trueMark Twain's library of humor
- Mark Twain's library of humor
- trueMental : funny in the head
- trueMentally incontinent : that time I burned down a Hooters, that time my stalker crashed on my couch, and nine other stories from my weird life
- trueMike Nelson's mind over matters
- Milton Berle's private joke file : over 10,000 of his best gags, anecdotes, and one-liners
- Mirth of a nation : the best contemporary humor
- Mitch all together
- trueMore information than you require
- trueMore napalm and silly putty
- More news from Lake Wobegon
- More of the best of Milton Berle's private joke file : 10,000 of the world's funniest gags, anecdotes, and one-liners
- trueMortified : real words. real people. real pathetic.
- trueMr. Funny Pants
- Mr. Universe
- Mr. Universe
- trueMy adventures with God
- My brother was an only child
- trueMy heart is an idiot
- trueMy planet : finding humor in the oddest places
- trueMy seven years in captivity : tails and misadventures in the San Diego Zoo
- NPR laughter therapy : a comedy collection for the chronically serious
- Napalm & silly putty
- trueNapalm & silly putty
- Narratives and short stories
- National Lampoon lemmings
- Never flirt with puppy killers: : and other better book titles
- Never scared
- New and not bad pretty good jokes
- trueNew rules : polite musings from a timid observer
- News from Lake Wobegon
- Newspaper blackout
- Normal is just a setting on the dryer: : and other lessons from the real, real world
- trueNot quite a genius
- trueNot that you asked
- trueNot tonight, honey : wait 'til I'm a size 6
- Notes to Boys: : And Other Things I Shouldn't Share in Public
- Nothing's sacred
- O, what a luxury : verses lyrical, vulgar, pathetic & profound
- O, what a luxury: : verses lyrical, vulgar, pathetic & profound
- Obsessed
- trueOf thee I zing
- trueOf thee I zing : America's cultural decline from muffin tops to body shots
- Oh boy, you're having a girl: : a dad's survival guide to raising daughters
- On location with George Carlin
- One fell soup, or, I'm just a bug on the windshield of life
- Our dumb century : [100 years of headlines from America's finest news source]
- Our front pages : 21 years of greatness, virtue, and moral rectitude from America's finest news source
- trueOur hearts were young and gay
- trueOut of my mind
- truePaper trails : true stories of confusion, mindless violence, and forbidden desires, a surprising number of which are not about marriage
- Parental advisory--explicit lyrics
- Patton Oswalt : no reason to complain
- Penn & Teller B.S.!, The seventh season
- Penn & Teller, B.S.!, The complete eighth season
- Pigs is Pigs
- truePlease god let it be herpes : a heartfelt quest for love and companionship
- Poor Richard's almanack
- Population, 485: : with selections from Off Main Street
- Pounding nails in the floor with my forehead
- truePresident Me : the America that's in my head
- truePresident me : the America that's in my head
- President me: : the America that's in my head
- truePresidential humor for candidates, speechwriters, and voters, preachers, housewives, janitors, hecklers, and other political types
- Pretty good jokes live!
- Principia discordia, or, How I found goddess and what I did to her when I found her : the magnum opiate of Malaclypse, the Younger, wherein is explained absolutely everything worth knowing about absolutely anything
- truePublic apology : in which a man grapples with a lifetime of regret, one incident at a time
- Public speaking
- Raunchiest women of comedy
- Reader's Digest Funny family jokes : something for everyone from age 9 to 99
- Real Man Adventures
- trueReal man adventures
- Real ponies don't go oink!
- trueReal ponies don't go oink!
- trueReflections in a jaundiced eye
- Registered offender
- Reset: : live & uncut
- Roasts & toasts : snappy one-liners for every occasion
- Robin Williams live on broadway
- Ron White : they call me "Tater Salad"
- trueRoseannearchy : dispatches from the nut farm
- Roseannearchy: : dispatches from the nut farm
- Rowdy tales from early Alabama : the humor of John Gorman Barr
- trueRubber balls and liquor
- Sarah Silverman : Jesus is magic
- Satellite sisters : uncommon senses
- trueSatiristas! : comedians, contrarians, raconteurs & vulgarians
- Saturday Night Live, The best of Chris Rock
- Saturday night live : the best of Eddie Murphy
- Saturday night live : the best of Mike Myers
- Selected jokes
- Selected readings from the portable Dorothy Parker
- Seriously funny
- Sh*t my dad says
- trueSh*t my dad says
- trueShep's army : bummers, blisters, & boondoggles
- Shut up you fucking baby
- trueSimple times
- trueSimpsons comics spectacular
- trueSiri & me : a modern love story
- Sketches from Texas siftings
- Sometimes I feel like a nut : essays & observations
- trueSouthern fried divorce
- Spike Jones Show, Back in radio's day with Spike
- Spitting images
- trueSquirrel seeks chipmunk
- trueSquirrel seeks chipmunk : a modest bestiary
- Squirrel seeks chipmunk: : a modern bestiary
- Standup comedian
- Standup comedian
- Stark raving Black
- trueStick Man's really bad day
- Stick Man's very bad day
- Stick to drawing comics, monkey brain! : [cartoonist ignores helpful advice]
- trueStop dressing your six-year-old like a skank : and other words of delicate Southern wisdom
- Stories I tell : a comic's random attempts to make some sense out of nonsense
- trueStories from a moron : real stories rejected by real magazines
- Strategic grill locations
- trueStuff white people like : the definitive guide to the unique taste of millions
- trueStupid white men-- and other sorry excuses for the state of the nation!
- Suck on this year : lyfao @ 140 characters or less