| Author: | Lia Romeo |
11,002 Things to Be Miserable About is a list of all the reasons not to wake up in the morning. Ironically enough, when you put all of them under one cover, it's actually very funny. This decidedly absurd stream of consciousness is perfect for sardonic and disaffected youth, for people seeking gifts for Traumatic Event Birthd... read more
| Author: | Marc Abrahams |
A hugely irreverent but affectionate look at the most bizarre and seemingly pointless scientific research carried out around the world. The Ig Nobel Prizes make people laugh, and then make them think. Included in this new edition are: the Dutch scientist who investigated homosexual necrophilia in mallard ducks, the Swedis... read more
| Author: | Doug Lansky |
Happily, this plague of funny signs shows no sign of abating and this third collection is the silliest and fruitiest yet. "Signspotting 3" will bring whoops of glee to even the most stalwart misery.
| Author: | Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman |
One of only 18 comic strips in history to top the thousand-newspaper mark, Zits now appears in more than 1,200 papers across the country and around the world. Though it displays a middle-class American teenager and his family, Zits' humor, its struggles with youth angst and issues, and its family situations strike a universal... read more
| Author: | Ted L. Nancy |
Spoof letter writing has a long history from Lazlo Toth to Henry Root but nothing can prepare you for the uniquely surreal and endearing world of Ted L Nancy. A kind of Trigger Happy correspondence, his innocent requests, queries, complaints, demands and suggestions to hotels, airlines, multi-national corporations, local gove... read more
| Author: | Mike O'Brien |
With an introduction to each artist, transcripts and audio of the routines and special added extra material we bring you: Rory Bremner, the best impressionist in the world, doing "Prince Charles"; Monty Python's unmatched "Dead Parrot"; Eddie Izzard's bizarre world at its height in "Cats & Dogs"; Lenny Henry's Brixton wide-bo... read more
| Author: | Davy Rothbart |
We've all found things in random places - an undelivered message, a heart's deepest secret confessed, a random doodle lying on the floor, a shopping list and picked it up to wonder about the people and the story behind it. "Found" is a magazine that collects items that have been lost, dropped, cast aside or simply forgotten i... read more
| Author: | Ed Polish & Darren Wotz et al |
| Series: | Bitch |
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| Author: | Don Donovan |
After the success of Woolly Wisdom and Chewing the Cud, here is a new and welcome addition to a pedigree herd of small, but attractively packaged gift books with international appeal. Pig Tales' deliberately hammy, but perennially popular quotations, blended with its amusing range of full-colour photographs of pigs in their e... read more
| Author: | Russell Ash |
Building on the phenomenal success of Potty, Fartwell & Knob, this new collection of extraordinary but true names goes a step further...In Busty, Slag & Nob End, Russell Ash has compiled real names from around the world that are really rude and are of places and products as well as people. The result of painstaking research, ... read more
| Author: | Terry Pratchett |
The Unadulterated Cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more of us settle for those boring mass-produced cats the ad-men sell us - the pussies that purr into their gold-plated food bowls on the telly. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by helping us to recognise a true, unadulterated cat w... read more
| Author: | eds. |
The Lost Art of Seduction. This is a collection of amusing 1920's style shots of suggestive situations. A salacious peep at the lost art of wooing the ladies. A Bird in the Hand offers hints and tips for the ardent gentleman in pursuit of a 'little bit of the other'. From the first knowing look, right to the 'home straigh... read more
| Author: | John Burningham |
This is a collection of wit and wisdom of 30 sprightly wise old birds. Hardback
| Author: | David Copperfield |
A HUGE HIT...WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH OUT LOUD - The Daily Mail In October 2006 a policeman called PC David Copperfield (pseudonym) received over a million hits to his blog site called Coppersblog. Coppersblog detailed a hilarious but shocking diary of life in a modern British town where teenage yobs terrorise the elderly, drunken... read more
| Author: | Spike Milligan (compiler Alexander Games) |
When Spike Milligan died in 2002, he left behind one of the most diverse legacies in British entertainment history
| Author: | David Sedaris |
Santaland Diaries collects six of David Sedaris's most profound Christmas stories into one slender volume perfect for use as a last-minute coaster or ice-scraper. This drinking man's companion can be enjoyed by the warmth of a raging fire, the glow of a brilliantly decorated tree, or even in the back seat of a police car. It ... read more
| Author: | David Rose |
'Woman, 36. WLTM man who doesn't try to high-five her after sex'
Personal ads - men and women of all ages, backgrounds and aspirations, laying their souls bare and their hearts on the line - are the modern world's equivalent of the Japanese haiku ...or something like that, anyway. Painstakingly crafted, finely honed and... read more
| Author: | H-57 |
In today's caffeine-charged, jet-fuelled, celebrity-a-minute world, who actually has the time to learn a thing or two? C'mon, let's face it, life's too bloody short. What you need is instant knowledge. Told in ingenious pictograms that are witty, provocative and to the point, Life in Five Seconds takes over 200 important even... read more