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Stand Up Comedy Books
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Comedian Gone Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,466 ratings — published
Comedian Gone Wrong 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.97 — 310 ratings — published
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.88 — 106,905 ratings — published 2007
Comedian Gone Wrong 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.31 — 29 ratings — published
The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even If You're Not (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.97 — 935 ratings — published 1994
The Comedy Bible: From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.85 — 735 ratings — published 2001
I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,048 ratings — published 2009
The Serious Guide to Joke Writing: How to Say Something Funny about Anything (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 446 ratings — published 2010
The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.44 — 1,019 ratings — published 2014
The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,846 ratings — published 2015
Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 684 ratings — published 2008
Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 13,209 ratings — published 2015
Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,447 ratings — published 1994
The Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.24 — 887 ratings — published 2013
SeinLanguage (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.61 — 10,198 ratings — published 1993
How to Kill in Comedy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.43 — 114 ratings — published
The NEW Comedy Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Writing and Performing Stand-Up Comedy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.32 — 283 ratings — published
How to Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.13 — 934 ratings — published 2014
And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft and the Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,117 ratings — published 2009
Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 397 ratings — published 2000
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,051,639 ratings — published 2011
American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,327 ratings — published 2002
Finding Your Comic Genius: An in-depth guide to the art of stand-up comedy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.60 — 128 ratings — published
The New Comedy Writing Step by Step: Revised and Updated with Words of Instruction, Encouragement, and Inspiration from Legends of the Comedy Profession (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 141 ratings — published
Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,453 ratings — published 2021
The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.82 — 814 ratings — published 2006
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 119,378 ratings — published 2002
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,017 ratings — published 2021
Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy: The Comedians’ Career Path from Beginner to Professional Jobs (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.38 — 53 ratings — published
Is This Anything? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.72 — 24,786 ratings — published 2020
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.49 — 799,249 ratings — published 2016
The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.32 — 31,312 ratings — published 1938
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,918 ratings — published 1979
Be A Great Stand-Up (Teach Yourself)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.79 — 107 ratings — published 2010
A Horse Walks into a Bar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.51 — 15,672 ratings — published 2014
How I Escaped My Certain Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,287 ratings — published 2010
Mastering Stand-Up: The Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful Comedian (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.41 — 504 ratings — published 2017
Comedy Writing Secrets: The Best-Selling Book on How to Think Funny, Write Funny, Act Funny, And Get Paid For It (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,131 ratings — published 1987
We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,081 ratings — published 2012
Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.85 — 258 ratings — published 1998
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,535 ratings — published 1965
Lost in the Funhouse: The Life and Mind of Andy Kaufman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 816 ratings — published 1999
It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,617 ratings — published 1995
Only Joking: What's So Funny About Making People Laugh? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.82 — 213 ratings — published
The History of Stand-Up : From Mark Twain to Dave Chappelle (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 247 ratings — published
Comedy Writing Self-Taught Workbook: More than 100 Practical Writing Exercises to Develop Your Comedy Writing Skills (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.50 — 18 ratings — published 2014
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.30 — 10 ratings — published 2014
The Last Laugh: The World of Stand-Up Comics (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.64 — 84 ratings — published 1975
True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.06 — 332 ratings — published 1994
So, Anyway... (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.72 — 14,103 ratings — published 2014
“Universal Pictures presents the Georgie Jessel Story. Ted Bessell is Georgie Jessel. Ted Bessell leads an all-star cast of Ted Bessell, Joey Bishop, Jacqueline Bisset, Whit Bissell and Joe Besser. Besser, Bissell, Bissett, Bishop and Bessell. The New York Times says, 'Bessell is Jessel". The Jewish Press says, 'We like Bessell, but only a bissel.”
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