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Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Publishers What even is a “comedy book”? That’s not a distinction used on signs hanging over a shelf in many if any bookstores, nor is it used to narrow a search at any online booksellers, and it’s not something publishers, editors, or critics use. It’s kind of an umbrella title we use here to describe a book about comedy or an adjacent figure or subject.
So You Need to Decide, by Beth Lapides Photo: Publisher In the past few years, audio comedy has emerged as a viable format for funny things. An outgrowth of stand-up comedy and podcasts, entries in this medium add structure and polish to observations and stories not generally afforded by those more free-form pursuits, packaging humor and storytelling into what’s essentially an audiobook — the tropes and setup of a physical book plus the delights of the theater of the mind.
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question, by Michael Schur $15 $15 Buy at Amazon Buy $15 at Amazon Buy Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats, edited by Gabe Henry Photo: Publisher You can breeze through this book of jokes in an hour or two, well worth the purchase price because it benefits charity. It’s Twitter minus the toxicity and crushing relentlessness and instead more art, finesse, and precision.
Passing on the Right, by Mike Sacks $1 $1 Buy at Amazon Buy $1 at Amazon Buy Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir, by Bob Odenkirk Photo: Publisher Finally, one the greatest comedy minds and comic actors of his generation wrote his memoir. Following the likes of genre pillars like Tina Fey’s Bossypants and Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama offers rare insight into the mind of a next-level genius who is usually inscrutable and lets his work speak for itself.
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