Comedy

Thrillers

Ten’s Gretchen McNeil: How to Make Serial Killers Fun

Gretchen McNeil is not only an incredibly talented author, she's also a professionally trained opera singer, a natural performer, and one of the nicest people we've ever met. The hit YA author is probably best known for her book Ten, which won numerous awards before being turned into a Lifetime original…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaJuly 12, 2018

Miscellany

BookTrib Fictional Bookshelf: Diabolically Funny Reads for Michael of ‘The Good Place’

Uncommonly good and diabolically funny, The Good Place is filled with more twists and turns than we can see coming. Based on the idea that sometimes, Hell really is other people, Michael, played to perfection by Ted Danson, is the standout character who is enjoying every second of not only his…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaSeptember 26, 2017

Miscellany

Tasty Food and Book Pairings for Every Literary Genre

There are food and wine pairings, book and wine pairings, and even book and coffee pairings but no one knows what to eat with a book! What should you munch on while reading Mockingjay? Or nibble while reading New Moon? Well, lick your lips and attack a snack, because here…

Rachael ElmyAugust 1, 2017

Miscellany

Video: Missed It? Interview with Comedian, Singer/Songwriter, and Actor Bo Burnham

ABOUT EGGHEAD A strange and charming collection of hilariously absurd poetry, writing, and illustration from one of today's most popular young comedians... EGGHEAD: Or, You Can't Survive on Ideas Alone Bo Burnham was a precocious teenager living in his parents' attic when he started posting material on YouTube. 100 million…

BookTribMay 8, 2015

Miscellany Pop Culture

Cue the Laughter: Thurber Award Highlights Humor

We could all use a good laugh, so why wait until Dec. 5 for Thurber House to announce the winner of its 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor? More is funnier, so here are the three finalists for this honor, the highest recognition of humor writing in the U.S. Would…

Joanna PoncavageNovember 13, 2018

Miscellany Nonfiction Pop Culture

Dalí & Harpo in New Book From Never-Made Cult Film

In 1937, Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí, in collaboration with his friend and admirer, comedian Harpo Marx, came up with an idea for a film that would merge Dalí’s imaginative art with the fast-paced comedy of the Marx Brothers. Rejected by MGM, the film never made it to the silver screen.…

Jim AlkonMarch 19, 2019

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Memoir From Sitcom Star’s Daughter Provides Essential Reading for Fans of “Roseanne”

If you are seeking a scathing exposé a la Mommie Dearest, you won’t find it in This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir (Harper) by Jenny Pentland, daughter of Roseanne Barr and her first husband, Bill Pentland. The author is frank, brutally honest, at times vulgar, and writes at top…

Linda HitchcockJanuary 21, 2022

Nonfiction

“Just The Funny Parts:” One Woman’s Mark on TV Comedy

A woman walks into a room. She’s the only female comedy writer there. She leans in, writes a funny book, and has the last laugh. Lots of laughs. Just the Funny Parts (Dey Street Books) is Nell Scovell’s story of how she went from wise-cracking kid to writing for David Letterman to…

Joanna PoncavageAugust 16, 2018

Nonfiction

Comedian Amber Tozer Answers One Question about Her Memoir ‘Sober Stick Figure’

Truman Capote once said about drinking, “I drink because it’s the only time I can stand it!” Along with being a quick-witted sassafras and a fabulously talented writer, Capote was a notorious alcoholic. Drinking stifled his creativity and eventually contributed to his death at the age of 59. In the…

Matt GillickSeptember 12, 2016

Nonfiction

Behind the wheel with Jimmy Failla, NYC cabbie turned comedian and dad

Sure, your dad did a lot for you. But new dad Jimmy Failla has gone above and beyond the call of duty in terms of providing for his child. By day, Failla dodges traffic as a New York City cab driver. By night, he wrangles hecklers as an up-and coming…

Michael RuscoeJune 10, 2014

Fiction

Why NBC’s ‘The Good Place’ is Our New Fave Show

Guys, I’m obsessed. Which, admittedly, isn’t news: as a true TV lover, I tend to find myself getting obsessed with a new show almost every week. But this time it’s different, I swear. Because I literally cannot stop watching NBC's The Good Place. When it first aired last year, I thought…

Rachel CarterOctober 20, 2017

Fiction

Christopher Moore Talks about Death, Demons and Secondhand Souls

From his first novel, Practical Demonkeeping (1992), to his most recent, Secondhand Souls (William Morrow, August 25), Moore has spun tales featuring vampires, lust-lizards, a talking fruit bat, stupid angels, Shakespearean fools and Jesus Christ himself—all of which are not only played for plenty of laughs, but loads of social…

Michael RuscoeSeptember 10, 2015

Fiction

Video: Missed It? Interview with Diona Reasonover, star of the TBS sitcom Clipped

MEET DIONA REASONOVER She can be seen on the TBS series Clipped, which centers around a group of barbershop coworkers who all went to high school together but ran in very different crowds. Now they find themselves working together at Buzzy's. Reasonover is a scene-stealer as Charmaine, one of the hairstylists whose dry humor,…

BookTribJuly 8, 2015

BookTrib Fictional Bookshelf: Diabolically Funny Reads for Michael of ‘The Good Place’

Tasty Food and Book Pairings for Every Literary Genre

Video: Missed It? Interview with Comedian, Singer/Songwriter, and Actor Bo Burnham

Cue the Laughter: Thurber Award Highlights Humor

Dalí & Harpo in New Book From Never-Made Cult Film

Memoir From Sitcom Star’s Daughter Provides Essential Reading for Fans of “Roseanne”

“Just The Funny Parts:” One Woman’s Mark on TV Comedy

Comedian Amber Tozer Answers One Question about Her Memoir ‘Sober Stick Figure’

Behind the wheel with Jimmy Failla, NYC cabbie turned comedian and dad

Why NBC’s ‘The Good Place’ is Our New Fave Show

Christopher Moore Talks about Death, Demons and Secondhand Souls

Video: Missed It? Interview with Diona Reasonover, star of the TBS sitcom Clipped

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