Best Books Written By Comedians
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Mastering Stand-Up: The Complete Guide to Becoming a Successful Comedian 4.42 avg rating — 492 ratings
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
by:
Jon Stewart
4.01 avg rating — 96,836 ratings 
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by:
Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating — 778,768 ratings 
15. 
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography
by:
Eric Idle
3.90 avg rating — 8,719 ratings 
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Satiristas: Comedians, Contrarians, Raconteurs & Vulgarians
by:
Paul Provenza
4.06 avg rating — 386 ratings 
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Like a Lampshade In a Whorehouse: My Life In Comedy
by:
Phyllis Diller
3.79 avg rating — 460 ratings 
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Laughing Through the Pain: Stories from the Trenches of Hollywood Standup Comedy and Beyond
by:
Joey Camen
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 
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The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
by:
Sarah Silverman
3.53 avg rating — 40,213 ratings 33. 
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
by:
Eddie Izzard
3.86 avg rating — 10,157 ratings 33. 
I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This and Other Things That Strike Me as Funny
by:
Bob Newhart
3.82 avg rating — 4,161 ratings 
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Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere
by:
Maria Bamford
3.72 avg rating — 23,382 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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My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
by:
Chelsea Handler
3.79 avg rating — 111,297 ratings 
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The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue: A Child of the Fifties Looks Back
by:
Robert Klein
3.55 avg rating — 110 ratings 
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Mr. Manners: Proper Etiquette For The Modern Degenerate (The Etiquette Series Book 1)
by:
Aaron Berg
3.06 avg rating — 66 ratings 59. 
American Etiquette: Failing Upwardly In A Fox News Nation (The Etiquette Series Book 2)
by:
Aaron Berg
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings 59. 
The Joys of Aging & How to Avoid Them: Can Sex Keep You Young? and Other Silly Questions
by:
Phyllis Diller
3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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The Late Night with David Letterman Book of Top Ten Lists
by:
David Letterman
3.76 avg rating — 687 ratings 
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Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
by:
Jon Stewart
3.90 avg rating — 27,326 ratings 73. 
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
by:
W. Kamau Bell
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6,659 ratings 
77. 
The Essential Groucho: Writings By, For, and about Groucho Marx
by:
Groucho Marx
3.83 avg rating — 409 ratings 
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In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox
by:
Carol Burnett
3.84 avg rating — 7,623 ratings 
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Selected Shorts: 10th Anniversary Anthology
by:
William Hurt
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 84. 
Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer with Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle
by:
Tom Lehrer
4.63 avg rating — 135 ratings 
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From Aargh! to Zap!: Harvey Kurtzman's Visual History of the Comics
by:
Harvey Kurtzman
3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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Winters' Tales: Stories and Observations for the Unusual
by:
Jonathan Winters
3.32 avg rating — 208 ratings 99. 
The Art of Rube Goldberg: (A) Inventive (B) Cartoon (C) Genius
by:
Jennifer George
4.10 avg rating — 93 ratings 100. 