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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Being successful is no laughing matter . . . unless the road there is littered with flops, fool’s errands, fizzles, and straight-up failures—from the New York Times bestselling co-author of Marriage Be Hard. “I’m so happy Kev failed, because these stories...

Bem-vindo à internet e hoje a jornalista Marie Declercq vai ser ser sua guia pelos cantos mais inusitados da rede mundial de computadores, onde todo mundo tem uma coisa em comum: a busca de comunidade para chamar de sua. Neste Original Aubible em dez episódios, você será guiado pela Marie para explorar dez comunidades criadas em torno de interesses difentes e a importância delas para que a gente não se sinta sozinho.

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).

For as long as she can remember, Grace Campbell has been told that she doesn't suit her name. But being graceful is no fun anyway. Growing up in a world of privilege and politics, she had a lot to feel confident about. But she was also a record-breaker when it came to feeling shame. Shame about...

Brought to you by Penguin. Everyone has an opinion about Matt Rife, who at twenty-eight years old is both the hottest and most controversial comedian in America. Now, in his new book, Matt gives his legions of fans and haters plenty to talk about, with hilarious and dangerously revealing stories...

As part of the legendary comedy team known as Nichols and May, May revolutionized sketch comedy before striking out on her own to make history as the third woman to be admitted into the Directors Guild of America when she wrote, directed, and starred in 1971s A New Leaf. Throughout the 1970s and...

Florian Hacke ist Kabarettist, Vater von drei Kindern und weiß, was es heißt, auf beiden Bühnen auch mal zu scheitern. In seinem Debüt erzählt er vom Alltag auf dem Spielplatz und in Eltern-WhatsApp-Gruppen, von Bilderbuch-Conni und Alptraum-Influencern, von Brotdosen und Berg-und-Tal-Atmung. Vom Kreißsaal, der die meisten Paare wie eine Zeitmaschine ins Jahr 1950 zurückwirft.

Happy birthday, spawn. Welcome to the wrong side of twenty-five. The expiration date on your eggs is officially in sight. Tick tock. Love, Mom' This was the text message Kate Friedman woke up to on the morning of her twenty-sixth birthday, but her mother's maternal adoration and helicopter...

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...

Adam Hills was a quiet primary school kid with a prosthetic foot, who did all his homework and only spoke when spoken to. His dad sparked in him a love of comedy and together they'd spend hours watching and listening to the greats like Peter Sellers and Mel Brooks, so, when it was Adam's turn to...

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...

This is the definitive biography of one of the most important comedians you've never heard of.

The average American has thirteen jobs in a lifetime. Tom Bross has had at least forty. This is Book Three, where the dust starts to settle. You should know up front that this is the one with the happy ending—though Tom would call it more of a mostly-survived ending, which feels more honest anyway. At ten, he was a drug mule for his hippie mother and got busted by a bike cop for riding on the wrong side of the street. Not for the drugs. The drugs were fine. At twenty, he came home from four months of backpacking through Europe to find his first love had taken up with a poet, which was rude.

What happens when a long-awaited journey home refuses to end? In The Never-Ending Flight, what begins as a celebratory trip to India for a wedding quickly unravels into a sprawling international misadventure. Mechanical failures, cancelled departures, unplanned landings, sleepless nights, and shifting rules strand hundreds of passengers far from home, again and again.

Die Anästhesistin Anissa Loucif entschied sich vor einiger Zeit OP-Kittel und Stethoskop gegen Mikrofon und Glitzerfummel zu tauschen. Als Comedienne begeistert sie heute ihr Publikum mit Geschichten über ihre deutsch-arabische Familie, den OP und »Minder«, die muslimische Dating-App. Aber was davon ist wahr? Warum wird man als Deutsche freiwillig ein Kopftuchmädchen? Und warum zur Hölle bleibt man eins? Hier erzählt sie witzig, bissig und pointiert über ihr Leben als Muslima, Ärztin und Mutter.

Due to popular demand I have decide to write and read a book. A Simples Life tells the amazing story of the Orlov family: from our courageous journey across the Kalahari desert to the beginnings of meerkat comparing business on streets of Moscow. I will also tell you about my own life, including...

In Laugh it Up, professional humor expert Shai Gelber draws on years of research, practical experience, and inspiring accounts of success from across the globe to demonstrate just how crucial humor is to our general well-being and, more importantly, how we can apply it to promote our health, wealth, and our happiness and satisfaction.

This book contains numerous short stories as seen through the eyes of a dusty old baker. The stories are made up of observations, history, and imagination, as the author watches the world go by as he sits at the large table in the middle of his bakery.

In dieser Sonderreihe von WortArt zum Anlass des 30-jährigen Bestehens wird jeweils ein(e) Wegbegleiter(in) und "WortArtist(in)" per Audio-Porträt und anhand eines Zusammenschnitts der besten Klassikernummern aus dem Programmarchiv des/der Künstler(in) präsentiert. Somit entsteht ein einzigartiges Highlight für die Lach- und Denkmuskeln. Ein Audioporträt zusammengetragen aus 30 Jahren Fleißarbeit mit vielen herausragenden Szenen und Programmen der deutschen Humorlandschaften.

In this "utterly unhinged, hilarious" memoir, a son pays tribute to his larger than life 'zaftig good time gal' mother and his unusual childhood (Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author). “Because she was my mother, the death of zaftig good-time gal Renay Corren is newsworthy to me...