Comedy Tonight!
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Like a Lampshade In a Whorehouse: My Life In Comedy
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Phyllis Diller
3.79 avg rating — 460 ratings 
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She Could Be Chaplin!: The Comedic Brilliance of Alice Howell (Hollywood Legends Series)
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Anthony Slide
3.42 avg rating — 12 ratings 
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Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America
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Richard Zoglin
3.84 avg rating — 681 ratings 
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It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs 4.07 avg rating — 1,591 ratings
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Caesar's Hours: My Life In Comedy, With Love and Laughter
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Sid Caesar
3.87 avg rating — 89 ratings 18. 
The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy
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Kliph Nesteroff
3.99 avg rating — 2,806 ratings 
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Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo: A Celebration of the Marx Brothers
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Joe Adamson
4.04 avg rating — 362 ratings 
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Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
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David Bianculli
3.93 avg rating — 1,601 ratings 
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Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
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Eddie Izzard
3.86 avg rating — 10,157 ratings 36. 
Overweight Sensation: The Life and Comedy of Allan Sherman (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
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Mark Cohen
3.71 avg rating — 94 ratings 
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My Life Is In Your Hands & Take My Life
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Eddie Cantor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century
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Tim Hollis
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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The Improv: An Oral History of the Comedy Club that Revolutionized Stand-Up
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Budd Friedman
3.96 avg rating — 190 ratings 48. 
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy
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Simon Louvish
3.89 avg rating — 334 ratings 
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Now That's Funny!: The Art and Craft of Writing Comedy
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Peter Desberg
3.20 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
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Judd Apatow
3.66 avg rating — 13,064 ratings 53. 
Chasing the Last Laugh: Mark Twain's Raucous and Redemptive Round-the-World Comedy Tour
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Richard Zacks
3.83 avg rating — 458 ratings 54. 
Moe Howard & The 3 Stooges: The Pictorial Biography of the Wildest Trio in the History of American Entertainment
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Moe Howard
4.27 avg rating — 143 ratings 
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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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Ellin Stein
3.49 avg rating — 161 ratings 57. 
Bob and Ray, Keener Than Most Persons: The Backstage Story of Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding
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David Pollock
4.17 avg rating — 60 ratings 
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I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era 4.01 avg rating — 2,016 ratings
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The Joker is Wild: The Story of Joe E. Lewis
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Art Cohn
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings 63. 
Take my wife ... please!: The autobiography of Henny Youngman as told to Carroll Carroll
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Henny Youngman
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 64. 
A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever
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Josh Karp
3.80 avg rating — 436 ratings 
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Groucho: The Life and Times of Julius Henry Marx
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Stefan Kanfer
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 669 ratings 75. 
The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx
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Groucho Marx
3.83 avg rating — 409 ratings 
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Winters' Tales: Stories and Observations for the Unusual
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Jonathan Winters
3.32 avg rating — 208 ratings 
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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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Steve Martin
3.53 avg rating — 1,315 ratings 85. 
Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
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Tom Shales
4.08 avg rating — 19,831 ratings 85. 
The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue: A Child of the Fifties Looks Back
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Robert Klein
3.55 avg rating — 110 ratings 
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George Carlin Letters: The Permanent Courtship of Sally Wade, The
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Sally Wade
3.81 avg rating — 268 ratings 
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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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George Carlin
3.71 avg rating — 1,103 ratings 
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7 Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin
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James Sullivan
4.05 avg rating — 1,885 ratings 
