Comedy

Laughter echoes through these pages as comedians, humorists, and wit-masters share their hilarious stories, insights, and techniques for finding humor in everyday life. Whether you're looking to perfect your own comedy craft or simply enjoy a good laugh, you'll find everything from celebrity memoirs and satirical guides to professional comedy writing manuals and laugh-out-loud observations about modern life.

Comedy Book Summaries

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish Summary

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

by Douglas Adams 1984 225 pages

Science Fiction

Sick in the Head Summary

Sick in the Head

Conversations About Life and Comedy

by Judd Apatow 2015 489 pages

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama Summary

Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

by Bob Odenkirk 2022 284 pages

Me Talk Pretty One Day Summary

Me Talk Pretty One Day

by David Sedaris 2000 272 pages

How to Be Perfect Summary

How to Be Perfect

The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

by Michael Schur 2022 304 pages

Jokes My Father Never Taught Me Summary

Jokes My Father Never Taught Me

Life, Love, and Loss with Richard Pryor

by Rain Pryor 2006 224 pages

Making Money Summary

by Terry Pratchett 2007 394 pages

Life, the Universe and Everything Summary

Life, the Universe and Everything

by Douglas Adams 1982 224 pages

Science Fiction

Good Omens Summary

The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

by Terry Pratchett 1990 491 pages

Laugh Tactics Summary

Master Conversational Humor and Be Funny On Command - Think Quickly On Your Feet

by Patrick King 2016 131 pages

The Gold Standard Summary

The Gold Standard

Rules to Rule By

by Ari Gold 2015 224 pages

Mathematics and Humor Summary

Mathematics and Humor

by John Allen Paulos 1980 124 pages

Diaries 1969-1979 Summary

Diaries 1969-1979

The Python Years

by Michael Palin 2006 650 pages

1000 Years of Annoying the French Summary

1000 Years of Annoying the French

by Stephen Clarke 2010 685 pages

Hot Six Summary

by Janet Evanovich 2000 336 pages

How to Rule the World Summary

How to Rule the World

A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator

by André de Guillaume 2002 144 pages

Three Men in a Boat Summary

Three Men in a Boat

by Jerome K. Jerome 1889 185 pages

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin Summary

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

by David Nobbs 1975 285 pages

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? Summary

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

by Mindy Kaling 2011 222 pages

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Summary

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

by Jonas Jonasson 2009 396 pages

Historical Fiction

Why Not Me? Summary

by Mindy Kaling 2015 240 pages

Let's Pretend This Never Happened Summary

Let's Pretend This Never Happened

A Mostly True Memoir

by Jenny Lawson 2012 318 pages

The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

by Christopher Moore 2002 444 pages

Historical Fiction

Your Mom's Gonna Love Me Summary

Your Mom's Gonna Love Me

by Matt Rife 2024 272 pages

What in the World?! Summary

What in the World?!

A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings

by Leanne Morgan 2024 240 pages

Dungeon Crawler Carl Summary

Dungeon Crawler Carl

by Matt Dinniman 2020 446 pages

Science Fiction

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem Summary

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

by Kliph Nesteroff 2021 319 pages

Tremendous Summary

by Joey "Coco" Diaz 2023 280 pages

Redshirts Summary

by John Scalzi 2012 320 pages

Science Fiction

The Greatest Nobodies of History Summary

The Greatest Nobodies of History

Minor Characters from Major Moments

by Adrian Bliss 2024 304 pages

The Rant Zone Summary

An All-Out Blitz Against Soul-Sucking Jobs, Twisted Child Stars, Holistic Loons, and People Who Eat Their Dogs!

by Dennis Miller 2001 208 pages

The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves Summary

The Jewish-Japanese Sex & Cook Book and How to Raise Wolves

by Jack Douglas 1972 256 pages

The Eminence in Shadow (Light Novel), Volume 1 Summary

The Eminence in Shadow (Light Novel), Volume 1

by Daisuke Aizawa 2018 285 pages

Thank You for Smoking Summary

Thank You for Smoking

by Christopher Buckley 1994 272 pages

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 Summary

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4

by Sue Townsend 1982 272 pages

The World According to Cunk Summary

The World According to Cunk

An Illustrated History of All World Events Ever

by Philomena Cunk 2024 256 pages

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Light Novel), Vol. 2 Summary

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Light Novel), Vol. 2

by Fuse 2014 304 pages

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