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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 — 1,452 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 — 106,127 ratings — published 2007
Comedian Gone Wrong 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.31 — 29 ratings — published
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 — 2,030 ratings — published 2009
The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even If You're Not (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.97 — 924 ratings — published 1994
The Comedy Bible: From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.85 — 731 ratings — published 2001
The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,821 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
The Serious Guide to Joke Writing: How to Say Something Funny about Anything (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 440 ratings — published 2010
The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.44 — 1,010 ratings — published 2014
Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 13,124 ratings — published 2015
Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,421 ratings — published 1994
SeinLanguage (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.61 — 10,132 ratings — published 1993
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 — 912 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 — 2,114 ratings — published 2009
The Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.24 — 875 ratings — published 2013
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,045,837 ratings — published 2011
American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,322 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 4.59 — 118 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
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 117,829 ratings — published 2002
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,953 ratings — published 2021
How to Kill in Comedy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.45 — 109 ratings — published
The NEW Comedy Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Writing and Performing Stand-Up Comedy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.34 — 275 ratings — published
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 — 24,575 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 — 786,386 ratings — published 2016
The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.32 — 30,950 ratings — published 1938
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,809 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
How I Escaped My Certain Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,262 ratings — published 2010
Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 393 ratings — published 2000
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 — 1,121 ratings — published 1987
We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,080 ratings — published 2012
Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 256 ratings — published 1998
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,503 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 — 810 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 — 1,603 ratings — published 1995
Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,209 ratings — published 2021
The Naked Jape: Uncovering The Hidden World Of Jokes (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.81 — 810 ratings — published 2006
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 3.65 — 83 ratings — published 1975
True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.06 — 330 ratings — published 1994
So, Anyway... (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.72 — 13,981 ratings — published 2014
Brain Droppings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.07 — 18,242 ratings — published 1997
Hysterical!: Women in American Comedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.50 — 10 ratings — published
Thank You for Coming to Hattiesburg: One Comedian's Tour of Not-Quite-the-Biggest Cities in the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 3.77 — 797 ratings — published
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up-comedy)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,985 ratings — published 2016
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“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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