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Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.88 — 109,552 ratings — published 2007
How I Escaped My Certain Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,382 ratings — published 2010
SeinLanguage (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.61 — 10,368 ratings — published 1993
Finding Your Comic Genius: An in-depth guide to the art of stand-up comedy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.60 — 172 ratings — published
The Comic Toolbox: How to Be Funny Even If You're Not (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.97 — 972 ratings — published 1994
American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,341 ratings — published 2002
How to Write Funny: Your Serious, Step-By-Step Blueprint For Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,008 ratings — published 2014
The NEW Comedy Bible: The Ultimate Guide to Writing and Performing Stand-Up Comedy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.28 — 348 ratings — published
Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.67 — 13,477 ratings — published 2015
Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.96 — 415 ratings — published 2000
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This and Other Things That Strike Me as Funny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.84 — 4,428 ratings — published 2006
Poking a Dead Frog: Conversations with Today's Top Comedy Writers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,073 ratings — published 2014
Brain Droppings (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.07 — 18,587 ratings — published 1997
The ‘If You Prefer a Milder Comedian, Please Ask for One’ EP (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.37 — 942 ratings — published 2012
Getting the Joke: The Inner Workings of Stand-up Comedy (Performance Books)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.41 — 36 ratings — published 2005
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World Series)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.36 — 11 ratings — published 2014
Too Stupid to Visit (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
Is This Anything? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.71 — 25,457 ratings — published 2020
The Serious Guide to Joke Writing: How to Say Something Funny about Anything (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.93 — 459 ratings — published 2010
Digging Up Mother: A Love Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,739 ratings — published 2016
The Comedy Bible: From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.85 — 744 ratings — published 2001
Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.86 — 267 ratings — published 1998
Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.93 — 239 ratings — published 2001
When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.82 — 12,805 ratings — published 2004
No Cure for Cancer: A Monologue (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,038 ratings — published 1992
Love All the People: Letters, Lyrics, Routines (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,226 ratings — published 2004
How to Write Funnier: Book Two of Your Serious Step-by-Step Blueprint for Creating Incredibly, Irresistibly, Successfully Hilarious Writing (How to Write Funny 2)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.15 — 153 ratings — published
Getting the Joke: The Inner Workings of Stand-Up Comedy (Performance Books)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.93 — 14 ratings — published 2013
Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011–2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.84 — 678 ratings — published 2017
Mastering Stand-Up: The Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful Comedian (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.41 — 535 ratings — published 2017
This Is Not Fame: A "From What I Re-Memoir" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,368 ratings — published 2017
A Horse Walks into a Bar (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.51 — 16,307 ratings — published 2014
Director’s Guide to the Art of Stand-up, A (Performance Books)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published
Comedy Writing for Late-Night TV: How to Write Monologue Jokes, Desk Pieces, Sketches, Parodies, Audience Pieces, Remotes, and Other Short-Form Comedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.23 — 173 ratings — published 2014
Be A Great Stand-Up (Teach Yourself)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.78 — 109 ratings — published 2010
Robin (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.13 — 20,588 ratings — published 2018
Based on a True Story: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.04 — 20,814 ratings — published 2016
A Book for Her (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,758 ratings — published 2015
Letting Go of God (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,994 ratings — published 2006
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.28 — 54,359 ratings — published 1979
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.98 — 3,706 ratings — published 1965
Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,421 ratings — published 2010
Napalm & Silly Putty (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,041 ratings — published 2001
Killer Carlin (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.06 — 31 ratings — published 2001
A Place for My Stuff! (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.41 — 58 ratings — published 2001
It's Bad for Ya (CD)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.64 — 109 ratings — published 2008
I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as stand-up)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,094 ratings — published 2009
The Good Girl Effect (Salacious Legacy, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as stand-up)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,103 ratings — published 2025
Barons of Decay (Royals of Forsyth University, #10)
by (shelved 1 time as stand-up)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,344 ratings — published
Shared With His Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as stand-up)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,076 ratings — published
“Let me tell you about gays in the military. I don't want any gay people hanging around me while I'm killing kids. I just don't want to see it.”
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“This is the material, by the way, that has kept me virtually anonymous in America for the past 15 years. Gee, I wonder why we're hated the world over? Look at these fat Americans in the front row - 'Why doesn't he just hit fruit with a hammer?' Folks, I could have done that, walked around being a millionaire and franchising myself but no, I had to have this weird thing about trying to illuminate the collective unconscious and help humanity. Fucking moron.”
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