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Sicker in the Head by Judd Apatow
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $26.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525509424Author Judd ApatowFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House Trade... -
Funny People: The Shooting Script by Judd Apatow 9781557049032
Booksplease Price: $27.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557049032Author Judd ApatowFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Newmarket Press,U.S.Publisher... -
Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy by Judd Apatow
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Before becoming one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood, Judd Apatow was the original comedy nerd. At fifteen, he took a job washing dishes in a local comedy club-just so he could watch... -
Sick in the Head: Conversations about Life and Comedy by Judd Apatow 9780812987287
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $27.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812987287Author Judd ApatowFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House Trade... -
Comedy Nerd: A Lifelong Obsession in Stories and Pictures by Judd Apatow 9780593595930
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $58.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593595930Author Judd ApatowFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture-And the Magic That Makes It Work by Jesse David Fox 9780374604714
RRP: $48.73Booksplease Price: $36.56Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture, Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions, and Lit Hub "Comedy Book changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever... -
J. J. Abrams: Interviews by Brent Dunham 9781496820426
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70Jeffrey Jacob ""J. J."" Abrams (b. 1966) decided to be a filmmaker at the age of eight after his grandfather took him on the back-lot tour of Universal Studios. Throughout his career, Abrams has... -
J. J. Abrams: Interviews by Brent Dunham 9781496820419
Booksplease Price: $182.75Jeffrey Jacob ""J. J."" Abrams (b. 1966) decided to be a filmmaker at the age of eight after his grandfather took him on the back-lot tour of Universal Studios. Throughout his career, Abrams has... -
Jewish Comedy: A Serious History by Jeremy Dauber
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.49In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into... -
Yearbook Seth Rogen 9780751575750
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.32THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERHi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside cover flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites like this one, so... here... -
We’re Not Worthy: From In Living Color to Mr. Show, How ‘90s Sketch TV Changed the Face of Comedy by Jason Klamm 9781948221269
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $28.26LIMITED FIRST EDITION contains blue foil gilded page edges and a white satin ribbon marker.In the '70s and '80s Saturday Night Live, SCTV, and Monty Python ruled the television airwaves with sketch... -
Egghead: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone by Bo Burnham
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.49Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, mostly absurd collection of poetry and essays from comedy superstar and creator of Netflix phenomenon Inside Bo Burnham.Bo Burnham was a teenager living in his... -
End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood by Patty Lin 9781958506066
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.15What happens when you land your dream job and everything you've been working toward becomes a complete nightmare? This is Patty Lin's story. She climbed the ladder as an award-winning television... -
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff
Booksplease Price: $28.68A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire From Kliph Nesteroff, "the human encyclopedia of comedy" (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy.It was one of the... -
I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays by Tim Kreider 9781476739014
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $23.21*A People Top 10 Book of 2018* The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women... -
Waiting for the Punch: Words to Live by from the Wtf Podcast by Marc Maron
Booksplease Price: $39.35Since 2009, WTF with Marc Maron has been one of the most widely listened to and influential podcasts in the country. Each week over a million and a half listeners tune in to hear Marc and a guest do... -
Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere Maria Bamford 9781982168575
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $13.67From "weird, scary, ingenious" (The New York Times) stand-up comedian Maria Bamford, an instant New York Times bestselling, brutally honest, and "laugh-out-loud funny" (Jennette McCurdy, #1 New York... -
From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy by Scott Meslow
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.60An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the '80s and the '90s, its unfortunate decline in the 2000s, and... -
Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons by Mike Reiss
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $20.32Semi-Finalist for the 2019 James Thurber Award * One of Vulture's Top-10 Comedy Books of 2018 * A "Must" pick by Entertainment Weekly * An A.V. Club Best Books selection * A "New and Noteworthy"... -
I AM MCLOVIN: How Superbad Became the Biggest Comedy Hit of its Generation Andrew Buss 9781493079827
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $38.81When Superbad was released on August 17th in 2007, it proved itself to be a massive success right out of the gate, especially for those in the film's target millennial demographic. The film wound up... -
The Other Guy: Media Masculinity Within the Margins by Derek A. Burrill 9781433122460
RRP: $254.57Booksplease Price: $226.86Suffering from "manopause" and "Low T", underemployed and unwilling to grow up, "the other guy" has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity. From the films of Judd Apatow to... -
The Other Guy: Media Masculinity Within the Margins by Derek A. Burrill 9781433122453
RRP: $65.33Booksplease Price: $60.18Suffering from "manopause" and "Low T", underemployed and unwilling to grow up, "the other guy" has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity. From the films of Judd Apatow to... -
The Screen Actor's Guide to Auditioning: How to Nail In-Person and Taped Auditions to Land Roles in Movies, TV, and Online Jay Scully 9781493090181
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $24.61Few teachers in Hollywood bring the range of experience to their work that Jay Scully does. For decades, Scully has worked with veteran and novice actors alike in virtually every area of today's... -
Fat, Drunk, and Stupid by Matty Simmons 9781250042804
Booksplease Price: $30.52In 1976 the creators of National Lampoon, America's most popular humour magazine, decided to make a movie set on a college campus in the 1960s. They called it Animal House, and the story they... -
A Cinema of Loneliness by Robert Kolker 9780199738885
Booksplease Price: $212.00An updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade,... -
A Cinema of Loneliness (4th Edition) by Robert Kolker 9780199730025
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $61.70An updated and expanded version of this classic study of contemporary American film, the new edition of A Cinema of Loneliness reassesses the landscape of American cinema over the past decade,... -
Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film by Casey Ryan Kelly 9780813575117
RRP: $234.00Booksplease Price: $174.37From the perspective of cultural conservatives, Hollywood movies are cesspools of vice, exposing impressionable viewers to pernicious sexually-permissive messages. Offering a groundbreaking study of... -
Awkwardness - An Essay Adam Kotsko 9781846943911
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $12.58Awkwardness has been one of the defining traits of the awkwardly unnamed first decade of our young century, dominating comedy on both the big and small screens. Could this trend point toward... -
Encyclopedia of Jewish American Popular Culture by Jack R. Fischel 9780313339899
Booksplease Price: $150.75This unique encyclopedia chronicles American Jewish popular culture, past and present in music, art, food, religion, literature, and more. Over 150 entries, written by scholars in the field,... -
Being Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel by Nick Dawson
Booksplease Price: $55.69Hal Ashby set the standard for subsequent independent filmmakers by crafting unique, thoughtful, and challenging films that continue to influence new generations of directors. Initially finding... -
Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage. by Rob Delaney 9780349134185
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Rob Delaney is a father, a husband, a comedian, a writer. He is the author of an endless stream of beautiful, insane jokes on Twitter. He is sober. He is sometimes brave. He speaks French. He has... -
Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars Kliph Nesteroff 9781419760990
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $17.75From the preeminent historian of comedy, an expansive history of show business and the battles over culture that have echoed through the decades and changed the United States"Outrageous is required... -
Everything Reminds Me of Something: Advice, Answers...but No Apologies by Adam Carolla
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $26.83As seen on Hannity! The bestselling comedian returns to respond and rant on real questions about life and love, careers and cars, and everything else from fans and famous friends.Ever wonder what you... -
Lose Well: False Starts, Beautiful Disasters, Public Humiliations, and Other Secrets to Success by Chris Gethard 9780062691415
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.00From the host of "Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People" podcast and creator of The Chris Gethard Show, a self-help narrative for anyone who ever felt like they didn't fit in or couldn't catch a... -
The Attitude Equation: Rockstars in All Fields Share Their Secret Attitudes by Mark Schulman 9798888453841
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $19.62Through interviews with some of today’s world-class performers, you will learn to immediately apply a formula to empower your attitude and alter the outcomes of your life.Attitude is at the heart of... -
He's Making You Crazy: How to Get the Guy, Get Even, and Get Over It by Kristen Doute
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $34.42"If there's one thing I know, it's crazy. A lot of people have called me crazy. Crazy Kristen! For a while there, it was practically my name. Women all over the world get called crazy every day. But... -
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made by Greg Sestero 9780751571769
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Now a major motion picture, The Disaster Artist, starring James Franco, Alison Brie, Zoey Deutch, Lizzy Caplan, Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, Dave Franco, Kristen Bell, Seth Rogen, Sharon Stone, and... -
Cut to the Monkey: A Hollywood Editor's Behind-the-Scenes Secrets to Making Hit Comedies by Roger Nygard 9781493061235
Booksplease Price: $38.08Cut to the Monkey is the story of a filmmaker's journey through Hollywood-revealing all the secrets behind how the experts find the funny in any project-by a filmmaker who has worked with some of the... -
Truth in Advertising John Kenney 9781472152107
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.22Finbar Dolan is lost and lonely. Except he doesn't know it. Despite escaping his blue-collar Boston upbringing to carve out a mildly successful career at a Madison Avenue ad agency, he's a bit of a... -
Well, This Is Me: A Cartoon Collection from the New Yorker's Asher Perlman by Asher Perlman 9781524892050
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $23.03The perfect gift for every single person on the planet.Well, This Is Me is the debut cartoon collection from Asher Perlman (The Late Show with Stephen Colbert), who NPR's Scott Simon calls "one of...