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Books : Humour : Essays
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Presenting the Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington: Adventurer. Philosopher. Knob head. Karl Pilkington isn’t keen on travelling. Given the choice, he’ll go on holiday to Devon or Wales or, at a push, eat English food on a package holiday in Majorca. Which isn’t exactly Michael Palin, is it? So what happened when he was convinced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant to go on an epic adventure to see the Seven Wonders of the World? Travel broadens the mind, right? You’d think so...
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Real life medical drama is OK… but true stories of emergency medicine that make you laugh out loud are better!
Mike Cyra's comedic storytelling style of writing is hilarious! Emergency Laughter is a collection of real-life, adrenaline-fueled, near-death experiences at the hands of old women who spit food, vomiting children, a morgue refrigerator and out of control ambulances.
Learn how to drive an emergency vehicle through traffic, fake unconsciousness, the wrong way to deliver a baby, the best way to chop all your fingers off, the Hiney-Lick Maneuver, why stupid people blame doctors for everything and how to really make sure a person is dead.
Laughter helps the mind, heals the body and is a critical survival tool for all who deal with death, dying and disaster up close. Emergency Laughter shows that it’s OK to laugh at yourself.
Mike Cyra spent twenty-years working as an EMT, a Chief Medical Officer on a ship in Alaska’s Bering Sea, a Surgical Technologist and an Instructor of Maritime Emergency Medicine. His humor has appeared in The Placebo Journal, Our USA Magazine, Parenting Humor and HumorPress.com.
Emergency Laughter will stay with the reader long after it’s put down.
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Brand New Item, Fast Dispatch
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One humor writer's entrance into the world of newspaper columns, and how she juggled being a wife, mother, and full-time exaggerator.
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When Gayle Carline clawed her way into her local newspaper office and groveled until they gave her a weekly humor column, she worried about not having enough material. Then she took a look at her life. Nearly every week something in her house or car needs repair, her son doesn't know why being able to see his carpet is a big deal, and her husband believes less is more, especially when it comes to communication. In What Would Erma Do, she chronicled her first two years as a paid exaggerator. Now she's back with two more years of merriment, along with editorial high jinks and readers' opinions. It's the most fun she's ever had without a credit card.
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For years, David W. Cowles’ wife JJ said he was filled with useless knowledge—so he decided to write it down and share his information with the world in THE BOOK OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE.
Do you know what kind of meat is used in making Welsh rabbit? The country where Panama hats are made? Which animal furnishes the hair for camel’s hair brushes? What’s in an egg cream? The name of the harp-shaped brass tube that holds a lampshade to a lamp?
Have you ever eaten a chalaza? Do you know how the town of Manteca, California was given its name? And when Manteca holds its annual Independence Day parade and fireworks display?
The answers to these, and many more questions of earth-shaking importance, are revealed in THE BOOK OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE. Cowles explains things the way they are—or at least, the way he sees them—whether he writes about Words, Names, Streets, Fat Lost Beagles, or other weighty subjects.
You’ll also learn how to cope with life’s little frustrations and foibles. Do you know what to do when your dog eats snails from the front lawn? How to make a decent piece of toast? How to properly measure a woman for a bra? Cowles addresses these vital topics, and others, in THE BOOK OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE.
Cowles says he’s always serious, but he admits his writing is heavily influenced by the dry, droll humor of authors Robert Benchley, Bennett Cerf, Jack Smith, and Andy Rooney—now all deceased. (Cowles provides you with a number of useful euphemisms and synonyms for the words dead and vomit.)
THE BOOK OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE is a delight to read. It may help when you next play a game of Trivia. Or not.
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The sequel to the bestselling Counting My Chickens - highly entertaining musings and jottings, with an introduction by Alan Bennett
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Ships from Spain. Please allow 10-18 business days to arrive at UK address (10-21 worldwide) due to postal service checks and customs.
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After being dumped by his longtime girlfriend, 28 year-old Justin Halpern found himself living at home with his 73 year old dad. Sam Halpern, who is 'like Socrates, but angrier, and with worse hair,' has never minced his words. And when Justin moved back home, he began to record all the ridiculous things his dad said to him... From the pitfalls of family weddings to confronting burglars naked with a shotgun, Sh*t My Dad Says is a chaotic, hilarious, true memoir of a father-and-son relationship from a major new comic voice.
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A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the cliches end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers.
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Presenting the Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington: Adventurer. Philosopher. Idiot.
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Bridget Jones's Diary meets The Office. Madison Lee is a fresh college grad, ready to take on the world of print media. But she has zero luck landing a job. Unemployment is at ten percent and on the rise. Desperate and left with no other options, she accepts a position as a service rep at a call center in Pocatello, Idaho. At the Lightning Speed call center in Spudsville, Maddy plunges into the wild and dysfunctional world of customer service where Sales is prided over Service and an eight hour shift is equivalent to eight hours of callers bashing her over the phone. Oh sure, the calls are bad. But Maddy manages to find humor on the phone and off the phone. And with all the salacious drama behind the calls, there is never a dull moment at the Lightning Speed call center.
Lately . . . Maddy has been pining for her smolderingly gorgeous co-worker Mika Harket. Now things are heating up on the phone--and elsewhere. Don't hang up on this novel. Working at a call center has never been this garish . . . or this delightful.
***DISCLAIMER: If you find politically incorrect shows like The Office, South Park and Chelsea Lately detestable, juvenile and offensive, then this book is probably NOT for you.
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Karen McQuestion not only admits to having lied to her children, she lists it as one of her top secret parenting strategies. Some of her finest parenting moments, she recounts, have involved deception. On planes she’s translated the garbled pilot’s announcement to her advantage saying, “This plane won’t ever land if you keep kicking the back of that seat!” and once introduced a new entrée to her fussiest eater by saying, “Honestly, we’ve had this before and you really liked it.”
Among the 29 essays collected here (many previously published in the Chicago Tribune, Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, or broadcast on NPR's Lake Effect) are the author’s account of her first time cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the in-laws, an identity mix-up at a Chinese restaurant, and a description of the most important place she visited while in Washington D.C.—the women’s bathroom in the Department of Agriculture building. Throughout, McQuestion shares stories of her life and family with humor and heartwarming insights.
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For Gervase Phinn growing old is not about a leisurely walk to the pub for a game of dominoes or snoozing in his favourite armchair. As this sparkling collection of his very best humorous writing shows, he may be ‘out of the woods’ but he is certainly not ‘over the hill’. Looking back over more than sixty years of family life, teaching, inspecting schools, writing and public speaking, Gervase never fails to unearth humour, character, warmth and wisdom from the most diverse of experiences, whether they be growing up in Rotherham with the most un-Yorkshirelike of names or describing why loud mobile phone users get his goat. Brimming with nostalgia, gently mocking life’s absurdities, never shy of an opinion, this is Gervase Phinn at his wittiest, twinkly-eyed best.