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The long-awaited audio edition of Peter Kay’s best-selling autobiography, The Sound of Laughter, including two completely new and exclusive bonus chapters. Grab a brew and some good-for-dipping biscuits and listen to Peter take a trip down memory lane, including his first-ever driving lesson, his Bolton childhood, the numerous jobs he held, right up until he found fame in the world of comedy.

Having everyone hang onto your words and laugh at your jokes - every time? Are you feeling stressed out and need to unwind? No matter what the need, humor is always the best medicine. It brings people together and can improve your outlook on life.

Discover the secret weapon that transforms relationships, boosts creativity, and enhances leadership: humor. The Laughter Factor reveals how laughter isn't just a source of joy but also a powerful tool for connection and success. Whether you’re a leader, teacher, salesperson, or simply someone seeking stronger relationships, this book equips you with five humor tactics to captivate, connect, and inspire.

A book of animal jokes, like "What goes 'zzub zzub'? A bee flying backwards."

Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.

The Power of Laughter: Simple Ways to Add Humor and Make Life Brighter offers fun-filled yet practical tips on how to inject humor into your home, office, family celebrations, therapy sessions or any environment that could stand to lighten up a bit. Author Lila Green advocates the rejuvenating power of humor, showing how humor helps us through difficult times and makes good times even better, enhancing our communication, relieving stress, and increasing work performance and productivity.

Eran A. Zelnik offers a cultural history of early America that shows how humor among white men served to define and construct not only whiteness and masculinity but also American political culture and democracy more generally. Zelnik traces the emerging bonds of affinity that white male settlers in North America cultivated through their shared, transformative experience of mirth. This humor—a category that includes not only jokes but also play, riot, revelry, and mimicry—shaped the democratic and anti-elitist sensibilities of Americans.

From the host of NPR affiliate’s Forum with Michael Krasny, a compendium of Jewish jokes that packs the punches with hilarious riff after riff and also offers a window into Jewish culture. Michael Krasny has been telling Jewish jokes since his bar mitzvah, and it’s been said that he knows...

This audiobook covers an incredible variety of strategies, techniques, therapies, and lifestyle choices that can bring more joy and laughter into your life. Life is so much more enjoyable when you actively incorporate laughter and humor into it. Don't just wait for it to come to you; take hold now of incredible techniques to actively promote laughter in your life and to spread it to others on a daily basis.

A lost literary gem of Hollywood in the 1930s, I Lost My Girlish Laughter is a thinly veiled send-up of the actors, producers, writers, and directors of the Golden Age of the studio system.

David Brenner draws on highlights from his "Laughter to the People" tour's stand-up material to show how humor can give us the power to transcend personal and world problems, from the unavoidable, like aging, to the uncontrollable, like war. His observations cover a wide range of issues, including fear of flying, going bald, marriage and divorce, pets, politics, terrorism, losing and gaining weight, money problems, and religion.

Norman Wisdom's early years could easily have come straight from the pages of a Dickens novel. Left by their frightened mother and ill-treated by a brutal father, Norman and his brother were forced to fend for themselves, sleeping rough in London and stealing food to survive. This is a rags to riches tale of the man Charlie Chaplin said would take his mantle and who went on to make millions laugh around the world for over five decades.

Lee Ridley is an English comedian. Disabled since birth and unable to speak, he is the first stand up comedian to use a communication aid in his routines. Performing under the stage name Lost Voice Guy, he rose to national prominence after winning one the UK’s biggest talent shows, Britain's Got Talent.

Perfect for fans of The Book With No Pictures, The Serious Goose and Press Here, this hilarious interactive picture book is guaranteed to be a major hit at storytime! Okay, kid… I have a BIG THING that I really want to tell you. But it’s VERY SERIOUS. So please, NO LAUGHING while I read you...

An incendiary album of unreleased material culled from the multitude of live recordings Bill Hicks made for personal use from the mid ‘80s until his death in ’94.

Orson Welles both starred in and directed The Campbell Playhouse, a radio drama (1938-40) produced by Welles and John Houseman. The episodes include adaptions of classic novels and plays as well as radio versions of the era's popular films.

In this hilarious debut album, Gabriel's self-deprecating and honest takes on marriage and kids, and his fascination with $60 hookers, show he's just like you - but a lot funnier. He's a winner of the Seattle Comedy Competition, has performed at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival, and has appeared on Comedy Central's Live at Gotham. (Explicit language.)

Ruben Paul is one of the most unique and versatile comedians working today. His quick wit, and vivid story telling takes audiences on a hilarious ride from beginning to end. Ruben has the ability to connect with all types of audiences, a testimony to his diverse background growing up in a mixed race neighborhood in Carson California. Ruben’s foundation of social ‘colorblindness’ is the driving force in his debut special, Laughter Knows No Color, as his unique perspective on life and the common thread that holds us together is uplifting and inspiring.