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Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
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Like a Lampshade In a Whorehouse: My Life In Comedy
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On the Real Side: A History of African American Comedy
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Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century
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Last Words
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Cheech & Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography
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Planet Funny: How Comedy Took Over Our Culture
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The Improv: An Oral History of the Comedy Club that Revolutionized Stand-Up
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Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy
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Now That's Funny!: The Art and Craft of Writing Comedy
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Groucho Marx: The Comedy of Existence
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The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy
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Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
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Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
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A Life in Comedy
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That's Not Funny, That's Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream
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Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
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I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era
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Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America
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Funny Business: Conversations with Writers of Comedy
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We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy
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A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever
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The 2000 Year Old Man
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It's Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks
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Enter Laughing
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I Remember Me
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I Just Remembered
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My Anecdotal Life: A Memoir
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Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx
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The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx
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The Groucho Letters
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Groucho and Me
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The Marx Bros. Scrapbook
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Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo: A Celebration of the Marx Brothers
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Hello, I Must Be Going: Groucho and His Friends
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Raised Eyebrows - My Years Inside Groucho's House
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Groucho
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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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The Ten, Make That Nine, Habits of Very Organized People. Make That Ten.: The Tweets of Steve Martin
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The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue: A Child of the Fifties Looks Back
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Gracie: A Love Story
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George Carlin Letters: The Permanent Courtship of Sally Wade, The
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George Carlin Reads to You: An Audio Collection Including Recent Grammy Winners Braindroppings and Napalm & Silly Putty
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7 Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin
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Last Words
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When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
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The Life Of Python
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The Book of David
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Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar
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Becoming Richard Pryor
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Hope: Entertainer of the Century
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Hiparama of the Classics
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Why a Duck?: Visual and Verbal Gems from the Marx Brothers Movies
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Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him
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Pryor Convictions: and Other Life Sentences
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Saturday Night Live
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Bossypants
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In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
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This Time Together: Laughter and Reflection
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One More Time
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Remembering Spike Milligan
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