Collection: Humor

Take one long-married and occasionally exasperated couple getting along in years, their well meaning daughter and precocious grandson, a clueless dog, an independent minded cat, plus assorted other quirky but endearing characters and you have the world of Pickles, Brian Crane's beloved comic strip that takes a wiry but good-natured look at the foibles of family and friends.

Put dullards and miscreants in their place with more than 150,000 handy mix-and-match insults in the bard's own words. This entertaining insult generator and flip book collects hundreds of words from Shakespeare's most pointed barbs and allows readers to combine them in creative and hilariously stinging ways. From "apish bald-pated abomination" to "cuckoldly dull-brained blockhead" to "obscene rump-fed hornbeast," each insult can be chosen at random or customized to fit any situation that calls for a literary smackdown. Featuring an informative introduction on Shakespearean wit, and notes on which terms were coined or only used once by the author in his work, this delightful book will sharpen the tongue of Shakespeare fans and insult aficionados without much further ado.

Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL (Sunday Telegraph).

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.

She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.

Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've always suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.

Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake!

Dive into the ocean depths in this super fun and super gross fifth book in the nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read series about some of the creepiest underwater creatures!

What does a vampire squid like to eat? (Hint: It's not blood.) How does a frogfish camouflage itself? Learn the answers to these questions and discover even more fascinating facts about slimy and icky sea creatures with Dr. Ick and Sam the Dog. A create-your-own-sea-creature activity is included in the backmatter for even more aquatic fun!

In the second Adventure Zone graphic novel (adapted from the McElroy family's wildly popular D&D podcast), we rejoin hero-adjacent sort-of-comrades-in-arms Taako, Magnus, and Merle on a wild careen through a D&D railroad murder mystery.

This installment has a little of everything: a genius child detective, an axe-wielding professional wrestler, a surly wizard, cursed magical artifacts, and a pair of meat monsters.

You know, the usual things you find on a train.

Hot on the heels of The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, the smash hit graphic novel that launched the series, The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited! picks up the saga where volume 1 left off. Both books are based on "The Adventure Zone," a tabletop RPG comedy podcast with downloads numbering in the tens of millions and an army of passionately devoted fans. With art and co-adaptation from Carey Pietsch, the McElroys are once again turning their raucous freewheeling D&D campaign into some damn fine comics.

Everyone's favorite sponge is making a splash with a Mad Libs so ADJECTIVE it'll even have Squidward saying, "I'm ready!"

Grab your spatula, bubble wand, and jellyfishing net because you're diving into Bikini Bottom with SpongeBob SquarePants Mad Libs! With 21 hilarious fill-in-the-blank stories, not even Plankton can ruin the fun.

"An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to re-read Great Expectations while listening to Sign o' the Times." --Vogue

From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince

Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems completely unlikely--until it's not. Peanut butter and jelly, Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong Un, ducks and puppies, and now: Dickens and Prince.

Equipped with a fan's admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby invites us into his latest obsession: the cosmic link between two unlikely artists, geniuses in their own rights, spanning race, class, and centuries--each of whom electrified their different disciplines and whose legacy resounded far beyond their own time.

When Prince's 1987 record Sign o' the Times was rereleased in 2020, the iconic album now came with dozens of songs that weren't on the original-- Prince was endlessly prolific, recording 102 songs in 1986 alone. In awe, Hornby began to wonder, Who else ever produced this much? Who else ever worked that way? He soon found his answer in Victorian novelist and social critic Charles Dickens, who died more than a hundred years before Prince began making music.

Examining the two artists' personal tragedies, social statuses, boundless productivity, and other parallels, both humorous and haunting, Hornby shows how these two unlikely men from different centuries "lit up the world." In the process, he creates a lively, stimulating rumination on the creativity, flamboyance, discipline, and soul it takes to produce great art.

Mad Libs is the world's greatest word game and the perfect gift or activity for anyone who likes to laugh! Write in the missing words on each page to create your own hilariously funny stories all about pets!

Cats and dogs have one thing in common: they both love to wear ARTICLE OF CLOTHING (PLURAL)! With 84 "fill-in-the-blank" stories about famous cats, talking dogs, and pet shops, Pet Parade Mad Libs has something for every animal lover! Play alone, in a group, or at the stables! Mad Libs are a fun family activity recommended for ages 8 to NUMBER.

Pet Parade Mad Libs includes:

- Four complete Mad Libs books in one collection Meow Libs, Dog Ate My Mad Libs, Pets-a-Palooza Mad Libs, and Hold Your Horses Mad Libs!
- Silly stories 84 "fill-in-the-blank" stories all about animals!
- Language arts practice Mad Libs are a great way to build reading comprehension and grammar skills.
- Fun with Friends each story is a chance for friends to work together to create unique stories!

Filled with over 150 exciting puzzles and quizzes for you to enjoy with friends, family or just by yourself!

Are you a whizz at animal trivia? Do travel facts float your boat? Do you know all there is to know about dinosaurs?

Put your knowledge to the test in this fun-packed book of puzzles and quizzes! Look out for spot the difference, mazes, odd one out and word puzzles - and, of course, bags of quiz questions on sport, geography, space, food and more!

Look out for more amazing puzzle and quiz books:
Amazing Puzzles and Quizzes for Every 8 Year Old
Amazing Puzzles and Quizzes for Every 9 Year Old
Amazing Puzzles and Quizzes for Every 10 Year Old

Now an AMC+ series starring Ben Whishaw

The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay's equally "blisteringly funny" (Boston Globe) and "heartbreaking" (New Yorker) secret diaries of his years as a young doctor.

Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor.

Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay's This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine.

Hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know--and more than a few things you didn't--about life on and off the hospital ward.

And yes, it may leave a scar.

Enjoy your favorite tunes at work, home, or on-the-go with this quirky, dachshund-shaped wireless speaker that brings the beats wherever it goes.

Jam out with the help of man's best friend--the Mini SubWOOFer!

• 3" dog-shaped wireless speaker
• Miniature USB cord
• 32-page illustrated mini book

Declutter your mind and do the important sh*t you've been putting off with this New York Times bestseller from the author of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck and You Do You.

Ever find yourself stuck at the office-or even just glued to the couch--when you really want to get out (for once), get to the gym (at last), and get started on that "someday" project you're always putting off? It's time to get your sh*t together.

In Get Your Sh*t Together, "anti-guru" Sarah Knight introduced readers to the joys of mental decluttering. This book takes you one step further in work and in life--organizing the f*cks you want and need to give, and cutting through the bullsh*t cycle of self-sabotage to get happy and stay that way. You'll discover:

• The Power of Negative Thinking
• Three simple tools for getting your sh*t together
• How to focus on the essential sh*t to get ahead at work
• How to spend less and save more
• Ways to manage anxiety, avoid avoidance, and conquer your fear of failure
• And tons of other awesome sh*t!

Get the most out of getting your sh*t together with the Get Your Sh*t Together Journal.

The New Comedy Bible is a step-by-step, no excuses manual for writing, performing, and launching your career as a stand-up comic. Written by Judy Carter, the author of The Comedy Bible (2001), which was called by The Washington Post and Forbes as a "Comedy Essential." This new book, penned in classic Carter's style -- part career coach and part comedy dominatrix -- has 100% new content where you will:

• Partake in 48 new exercises to turn your problems into punchlines
• Create 60 minutes of new material
• Discover your authentic comedy persona
• Conquer stage fright and slay hecklers
• Push part procrastination and get booked

Whether you're a beginner just starting out or a pro looking to create new material for your next Netflix Comedy Special, Carter's proven methods are legendary among today's top performers. Alumni of her workshops include: Seth Rogan, Hannah Gadsby, Sherri Sheppard, and Maz Jobrani among others. As Lily Tomlin says, "Judy Carter helps others find their authentic persona and communicate in a way that makes audiences laugh." Interviewed by Oprah Winfrey, she said, "Judy Carter can show you how to make your sense of humor pay off."

The exercises in this book will get you off the couch and onto the stage, helping you develop the skills necessary to envision, and achieve, a successful career in comedy.

From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society.

Blythe Roberson's sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other humans. She collects her crushes like ill cared-for pets, skewers her own suspect decisions, and assures readers that any date you can mess up, she can top tenfold. And really, was that date even a date in the first place?

With sections like Real Interviews With Men About Whether Or Not It Was A Date; Good Flirts That Work; Bad Flirts That Do Not Work; and Definitive Proof That Tom Hanks Is The Villain Of You've Got Mail, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a one stop shop for dating advice when you love men but don't like them.

"With biting wit, Roberson explores the dynamics of heterosexual dating in the age of #MeToo"
-- The New York Times

Randall Munroe describes xkcd as a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. While it's practically required reading in the geek community, xkcd fans are as varied as the comic's subject matter. This book creates laughs from science jokes on one page to relationship humor on another.

xkcd: volume 0 is the first book from the immensely popular webcomic with a passionate readership (just Google xkcd meetup).

The artist selected personal and fan favorites from his first 600 comics. It was lovingly assembled from high-resolution original scans of the comics (the mouseover text is discreetly included), and features a lot of doodles, notes, and puzzles in the margins.

The book is published by Breadpig, which donates all of the publisher profits from this book to Room to Read for promoting literacy in the developing world.

This "activity book" is a fun way to keep things exciting and put the spice and adventure back into your relationship.

After all these years of thinking 69 was our lucky number, here come 366 hand-picked erotic scenarios from Nerve.com's wildly popular Position of the Day treasure trove in one gloriously chunky, deeply inspiring, and hilarious compendium. Yes, that's 366--one for each day of the year, plus a little something special for leap year! Illustrated with anatomically correct drawn figures, the positions run the lusty gamut from plausible to creative to "Honey, get my weight belt, this is going to require some heavy lifting!" With a new position every day, you're sure to keep the love doctor away!

EXPERT AUTHORS: Em & Lo (Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey) pen the sex and relationships advice column "The Em & Lo Down (Advice from Near-Experts)" on Nerve.com.

THE SEX BOOK FOR EVERYONE: Featuring 366 fun sex positions of varying degrees of difficulty, there's something for everyone here. Beginners will enjoy trying out the Corporate Merger and the TV Dinner, while the more adventurous will have fun with the Snow Blower and the Quasimodo--which field-testing suggests is best attempted only after a vigorous round of stretching and a can of Red Bull.

FUN GIFT: This entertaining and eyebrow-raising volume is a delightfully saucy gift for anyone who appreciates unique coffee table books or conversation starters.

Perfect for:

• Bridal showers, bachelor and bachelorette parties, Valentine's Day, or anniversaries
• Gift givers looking for a fun and unique couple's gift
• Anyone seeking to spice things up in the bedroom