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Standup Comedy Books
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.88 — 107,884 ratings — published 2007
Stand-Up Comedy: The Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.94 — 283 ratings — published 1989
I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,066 ratings — published 2009
The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,882 ratings — published 2015
The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even If You're Not (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.97 — 952 ratings — published 1994
The Serious Guide to Joke Writing: How to Say Something Funny about Anything (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.92 — 453 ratings — published 2010
The Comedy Bible: From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.85 — 735 ratings — published 2001
Mastering Stand-Up: The Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful Comedian (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.41 — 519 ratings — published 2017
Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 400 ratings — published 2000
And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft and the Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.05 — 2,123 ratings — published 2009
I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.61 — 735 ratings — published 2006
Stand-Up Comedians on Television (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1996
Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 264 ratings — published 1998
Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 13,331 ratings — published 2015
Satiristas: Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs & Vulgarians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 386 ratings — published 2008
Comic Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 15 ratings — published 1987
Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.83 — 684 ratings — published 2008
Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 237 ratings — published 2001
More or Less Maddy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,722 ratings — published 2025
You So Crazy (A Miramax Book)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1994
Comedy Explosion: A New Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.00 — 2 ratings — published 1993
Comedians (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.88 — 8 ratings — published 1991
Better Than Crying: Poking Fun at Politics, the Press & Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.90 — 10 ratings — published 2003
Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women's Humor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.28 — 82 ratings — published 1997
Best of Gravestone Humor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.65 — 23 ratings — published 1990
What I Shouldn't Say (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2000
The Last Laugh: The World of Stand-Up Comics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.65 — 85 ratings — published 1975
Chardonnay Moms: Jane & Bobbi's Greatest Hits (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.32 — 1,522 ratings — published 2009
The Big Book of New American Humor: The Best of the Past 25 Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.82 — 51 ratings — published 1990
Henny Youngman's greatest one-liners (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1970
What Would Susie Say?: Bullsh*t Wisdom About Love, Life and Comedy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.35 — 242 ratings — published 2009
Encyclopedia of Black Folklore and Humor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.33 — 9 ratings — published 1990
The Y'NEVANO Book of Encouragement (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2011
Queens of Comedy: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers, and the New Generation of Funny Women (Studies in Humor and Gender , Vol 2)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published 1997
Comedy Under Attack: The Golden Age and the Headwinds (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2013
I Wish I'd Said That (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.00 — 5 ratings — published 1987
Self-Helpless: The Greatest Self-Help Books You'll Never Read (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1999
Be a Stand-Up Comic: Or Just Look Like One (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1990
Successful Stand-Up Comedy: Advice from a Comedy Writer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.43 — 23 ratings — published 1994
Starting Out in Stand-Up or How Stand-Up Comedy Saved My Life and How it Could Save Yours (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.29 — 7 ratings — published 2013
True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,687 ratings — published 1997
Lucid Body: A Guide for the Physical Actor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.40 — 222 ratings — published 2008
Staging Sex: Best Practices, Tools, and Techniques for Theatrical Intimacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.72 — 105 ratings — published
Andrius Jilinsky - The Joy of Acting: A Primer for Actors (American University Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Magic Time: My Life in Hollywood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.10 — 49 ratings — published 2019
Strasberg at the Actors Studio: Tape-Recorded Sessions (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.05 — 65 ratings — published 1968
On Method Acting: The Classic Actor's Guide to the Stanislavsky Technique as Practiced at the Actors Studio (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 3.86 — 196 ratings — published 1989
Acting in Film: An Actor's Take on Movie Making (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,941 ratings — published 1989
Elia Kazan: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as standup-comedy)
avg rating 4.12 — 429 ratings — published 1976
“Lenny Bruce and Honey Harlow made love, partied, and hung out in the calm blue waves; Caught the sun between them, and its all-consuming power fused their twisted souls together like a live wire. The guardrail separating their psyche annihilated in ecstatic firestorms of lust as the racecars of their consci shot through the tunnels of each others’ pupils simultaneously when they came. This was the early days of their wild life together. Before the car crash that cracked her pelvis in Pittsburgh, and almost killed her at the apex of her vixen stripper body’s sexual peak of prowess. Bruce and Honey were in love. They should’ve never left Miami Beach.”
― Lenny, Flip, and Rickles: Standup Comics in The Magic City
― Lenny, Flip, and Rickles: Standup Comics in The Magic City
“To comedians and humorists, God is laugh.”
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