Category: Humor

By Ben Elton

After the irresponsible, ignorant bliss of economic increase, stockbroker Jimmy and his relatives are pressured to confront monetary meltdown during this hilarious and deeply pertinent household drama.

By anant pai

Monkeys frolic via those pages, supplying classes in management and customary feel. Murderous crocodiles, robust kings and fearsome ogres are simply outwitted through those winsome creatures. yet be warned: don't allow monkeys free on your backyard otherwise you may perhaps lose sight in their virtues!

By Christopher Buckley

In 1994, Christopher Buckley released some of the most acclaimed and profitable comedian novels of the last decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the unusual land of Washington, D.C., in Little eco-friendly Men, a millennial comedy of manners approximately extraterrestrial beings and pundits . . . and what sort of they've got in universal.

The reluctant hero of this hilarious novel is John Oliver Banion, a stuffy Washington talk-show host, whose privileged existence is thrown into upheaval whilst extraterrestrial beings abduct him from his unique country-club golfing course.

But have been his gray-skinned captors extraterrestrial beings . . . or whatever way more sinister? After Banion is kidnapped again--this time in Palm Springs--he believes he has been selected by means of the extraterrestrials to champion an important reason for the millennium, and he embarks on a campaign, showing ahead of a tradition of flying saucers believers and critical that Congress and the White condominium heavily examine UFOs. His associates and family...

By Mordecai Richler

Charged with comedian power and a steely fail to remember for any pieties whatever, Barney's model is an incredible Richler novel, the main own and feeling booklet of a protracted and amazing career.

Told within the first individual, it supplies us the lifestyles (and what a life!) of Barney Panofsky--whose trashy television corporation, completely dead Productions, has made him a small fortune; whose 3 better halves comprise a martyred feminist icon, a crucial JCP (Jewish-Canadian Princess), and the incomparable Miriam, the best spouse, lover, and mother--alas, now married to a different guy; who recollects with nostalgia and ache his younger manhood within the Paris of the early fifties, and his lifelong ardour for wine, girls, and the Montreal Canadiens; who both did or didn't homicide his ally, Boogie, after gaining knowledge of him in mattress with the second one Mrs. Panofsky; whose satirical eye for the idiocies of today's Quebec separatists (as good as for each different type of political correctness) manages to offend his whole acquaintanceship (and will quickly be offending readers everywhere); and whose memory--though no longer his bile--is, in his sixty-seventh 12 months, certainly slipping . . .

By Sophie Kinsella

Lottie simply is aware that her boyfriend goes to suggest in the course of lunch at one in every of London’s fanciest eating places. but if his gigantic query comprises a visit in another country, no longer a visit down the aisle, she’s thoroughly overwhelmed. So whilst Ben, an past love, calls her immediately and reminds Lottie in their pact to get married in the event that they have been either nonetheless unmarried at thirty, she jumps on the probability. No formal dates—just a short march to the altar and a honeymoon on Ikonos, the sun-drenched Greek island the place they first met years ago.
 
Their friends and family are horrified. Fliss, Lottie’s older sister, understands that Lottie should be impulsive—but without doubt this can be her worst choice but. And Ben’s colleague Lorcan fears that this hasty marriage will spoil his friend’s profession. to maintain Lottie and Ben from creating a negative mistake, Fliss concocts an tricky scheme to sabotage their marriage ceremony evening. As she and Lorcan jet off to Ikonos in pursuit, Lottie and Ben are in for a honeymoon to recollect, for greater . . . or worse.

Advance compliment for Wedding Night

“Author of the preferred Shopaholic sequence, [Sophie] Kinsella has back created a fast paced, hilarious comedy jam-packed with bubbly banter and a captivating forged of characters. The fanatics (more self-deluded than star-crossed) are delightfully incorrect, and the competitors are sweetly susceptible. brilliant, bouncy, enticing and excellent for filming.”—Kirkus Reviews
 
“There’s lots of foolish enjoyable on hand during this fascinating comedy of errors.”—Booklist
 
“Kinsella lovers could be charmed.”—Publishers Weekly

By Ryan Mecum

A few race. a few lurch. Others come crawling, limping, staggering--dragging themselves towards a person who may possibly nonetheless have a pulse. Zombies invade the island of long island, and they're hungry.

The tale of the zombie apocalypse is instructed throughout the eyes of sunrise, a ten-year-old woman who has been well-schooled within the undead as a result of her father's love of zombie video clips. because the zombies process, sunrise and her dad detect the time has come to enforce their Zombie break out Plan, in order that they assemble associates and break out to the Statue of Liberty.

Only the plan doesn't cross particularly as anticipated. sunrise records their downfall in her haiku magazine, the place the limb-snapping, eye-popping, bone-crunching zombies finally make her certainly one of their very own. In gory aspect, and infrequently channeling her favourite poets, she describes the ugly scenes ahead of her--and her personal scary impulses.

Ryan Mecum, the depraved brain at the back of the unique Zombie Haiku, brings you one other quantity of stressful poetry from the point of view of the strolling useless absolute to get your center racing and your gag reflex operating, yet with a bit of luck no longer your mouth salivating.

By Amar Chitra Katha

Purely Birbal may perhaps outwit Akbar and escape with it. A witty and clever diplomat, he ensured that either the emperor and the empire retained their greatness. This number of stories highlightning Birbal's presence of brain, his kindness and his shrewdness promises a very good snigger. whilst, it divulges a few necessary methods for overcoming sticky occasions.

By David Remnick, Henry Finder

Whilst Harold Ross based The New Yorker in 1925, he known as it a “comic weekly.” And even though it has turn into even more than that, it has remained precise in its irreverent center to the founder’s description, publishing the main illustrious literary humorists within the smooth era—among them Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Groucho Marx, James Thurber, S. J. Perelman, Mike Nichols, Woody Allen, Calvin Trillin, Garrison Keillor, Ian Frazier, Roy Blount, Jr., Steve Martin, and Christopher Buckley. Fierce Pajamas is a treasury of laughter from the journal W. H. Auden known as the “best comedian journal in existence.”

By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Matadero Cinco catapultó a Kurt Vonnegut como uno de los grandes ídolos de los angeles juventud norteamericana y se convirtió de inmediato en un clásico de los angeles literatura contemporánea. Una historia amarga, conmovedora y a l. a. vez divertidísima, de los angeles inocencia confrontada con el apocalípsis, «una novela con ribetes esquizofrénico-telegráficos», en palabras de su autor. Kurt Vonnegut fue hecho prisionero en los angeles Segunda Guerra Mundial y se encontraba en Dresde cuando esta ciudad fue bombardeada y arrasada por los angeles aviación norteamericana; este hecho le marcó profundamente y decidió escribir un libro en torno a ese tema: Matadero Cinco. l. a. historia de un superviviente de l. a. matanza que, muchos años más tarde, es raptado y transportado al planeta Trafalmadore es una de las muchas tramas que se entrecruzan en una obra profundamente innovadora, en l. a. que resplandecen cegadoras metáforas de los angeles nueva period y en l. a. que los pasajes de ciencia-ficción funcionan a los angeles manera de los payasos de Shakespeare. El humor, a menudo muy negro, es esencial en los angeles obra de Vonnegut, quien ha afirmado que «lo cómico es parte tan vital en mi vida que empiezo a trabajar en una historia sobre cualquier tema y, si no encuentro elementos cómicos, l. a. dejo».

By Terry Fallis

Eve of Equality, a brand new feminist weblog, turns into an in a single day sensation while a wildly well known speak express host stumbles upon it, tweets approximately it, and promotes it on her exhibit. The nameless weblog is clever, considerate, and impressive, overtly taking over a variety of injustices within the lives of ladies. yet it's the blogger Eve's submit concerning the debatable entrepreneur at the back of XY, a brand new chain of top of the range strip golf equipment starting up around the state, that units off a firestorm. In a question of hours, the location crashes, its Twitter count number jumps from a paltry 19 fans to just about 250,000, and Eve is unexpectedly lauded because the new voice of recent feminism.
yet who, precisely, is the Eve in the back of Eve of Equality? good . . . no longer who chances are you'll imagine. Meet Everett Kane, aspiring author and fervent feminist. He writes his erudite weblog in his new house, at his kitchen desk, and his lifestyles is set to alter forever.
Hilarious and clever, and supplying well timed statement on an issue that's flooding our headlines, newsfeeds, Twitter streams, and conversations, Poles Apart is Terry Fallis at his most sensible, confirming his prestige as a king of CanLit comedy.

From the alternate Paperback edition.