Humour & Comedy

Tadhg Hayes / The Wit of Irish Conversation (Large Paperback)

  For the unprepared visitor Irish conversation can be a minefield. 'How's the craic?' is not an assumption that you are well versed in the properties of narcotic substances, merely an enquiry after your health and general well-being. A seemingly...

Dara O Briain / Tickling the English (Large Paperback)

 Nostalgia, identity, eccentricity, gin drinking and occasional violence... these are just some of the themes that stand-up comedian Dara O Briain explores in Tickling the English.O Briain moved to England many years ago, but when he takes his show...

Mitchel Symons / Why Girls Can't Throw (Hardback)

 "Why Girls Can't Throw" provides the answers to the everyday mysteries which keep you up at night...It addresses questions such as: is it morally wrong to record a CD you buy for a friend's birthday before you give it to them? Why do smokers often...

Scarlett Moffatt / Scarlett Says

 Queen of the SofaQueen of the JungleQueen of the one-linerThe Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller'Scarlett Says is absolutely brilliant and really funny. Half autobiography, half mad woman on a roundabout shouting at the traffic.' - Alan Carr'My...

Tracey Turner / Wee on a Jellyfish Sting and Other Lies... (Hardback)

  A brand new series from the home of humour for children! Bonkers Books: Rubbish! is packed full of the lies that grown-ups tell, debunking all those cherished 'facts' grown-ups believe, such as camels carrying water in their humps, goldfish...

Alfie Deyes / The Pointless Book (Large Paperback)

  Bake a cake in a mug; take part in a people-watching challenge; create a time capsule; diarise a week of your life and learn to make origami. Fully illustrated and packed with a host of games, activities and pranks, Alfie invites you to join...

Wendy Northcutt / The Darwin Awards III

  Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house...brand new DARWIN AWARDS, the bestselling humour series that honours those people who improve the human gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves from it in sublimely idiotic ways. The...

Jen Campbell / Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops (Hardback)

 'Can books conduct electricity?''My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?'A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the "Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" blog, which grew over...

Harry Hill / Livin' the Dreem (Large Paperback)

  Harry Hill's unexpurgated diary of his year promises to do for the celebrity memoir what the Hadron Collider has done for particle acceleration. Think Samuel Pepys meets Katie Price. This frank and sometimes controversial diary details one...

Scott Adams / The Dilbert Principle (Hardback)

  Packed with 400 Dilbert cartoons, this book takes a look at corporate America in all its glorious lunacy, exploring its zeitgeist of ever-changing management fads, overbearing egos, management incompetence, bottomless bureaucracies, petrifying...

Scarlett Moffatt / Scarlett Says (Hardback)

 The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller from the Queen of the Jungle, Scarlett Moffatt"I don't go on red carpets. If a photographer ever shouted out "who are you wearing?" I'd be like, "Me mam's top, me mate Sarah's jeans and some shoes from the...

Brendan O'Carroll / Mrs Brown's Family Handbook

 Uncover hilarious and unique insights into the Brown family, in Brendan O'Carroll's first official book on his NTA winning comic creation Mrs Brown's Boys.Millions od us have wondered: how does Agnes Brown do it? Keeping her end up while seven...

David Pickering / Penguin Pocket Jokes

  Have you heard the one about the man who walked into a bar? (Ouch!)... Penguin Pocket Jokes is essential (and hilarious) reading for anyone searching for the perfect joke. Whether you want a snappy wisecrack or a longer rib-tickler when making...

Donal Foley - Man Bites Dog - Book 8 ( 1979) PB - Satire & Humour

Bases on the satirical colums from the Irish Times newspaper, this is the 1979 issue of the hugely popular Man Bites Dog Series ( the title refers to the old journalistic maxim that' dog bites man' is not news , but 'man bites dog' is .  Paperback...

Stephen Bayley / Dictionary of Idiocy : An Utterly Quirky Guide to General Ignorance

  Wittgenstein said that if people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever happen. In this compelling A-Z of modern ignorance, Stephen Bayley gathers silly, curious and sometimes shocking facts on everything that makes our world...

Ambrose Bierce / The Devil's Dictionary (Hardback)

  A word book, straight up, with a twist The Devil's Dictionary is an American classic. A Yankee Oscar Wilde with a wicked edge to his tongue, gained from seeing the world early and cynically as it really was, Ambrose Bierce, friend and rival of...

Oonagh O'Hagan / I Lick My Cheese And Other Notes... : . . . From the Frontline of Flatsharing (Hardback)

  'I needed that ham. Really needed it.' 'I pay the rent. What do you do?' 'I hate you more than life itself.' Flatsharing - it's not for the fainthearted. It doesn't matter how friendly and considerate everyone is to begin with, something always...

Rob Temple / Very British Problems : Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time

 There's an epidemic sweeping the nationSymptoms include:*Acute embarrassment at the mere notion of 'making a fuss'*Extreme awkwardness when faced with any social greeting beyond a brisk handshake*An unhealthy preoccupation with meteorologyDoctors...

Benjamin Lee / Middle Class Problems : Problems but not real actual problems, just middle class ones (Hardback)

 A hilarious collection of the most agonizing real-life inconveniences faced by the iPhone-losing, polenta-burning, Eurostar-missing middle classes, illustrated by Matt Blease'My pug has hiccups''I've given myself a croissant headache''I just...

Harry Oliver / March Hares and Monkeys' Uncles (Hardback)

  From the publishers of the Number 1 bestseller Red Herrings and White Elephants Why is a March hare mad? Why do we sometimes call ourselves a monkey's uncle? Why do cricketers who don't score anything get out for a duck? Who was Gordon Bennett?...

Charlie Brooker / The Hell of it All (Hardback)

 'Mankind clearly peaked about 40 years ago. It's been downhill ever since. For all this talk of our dazzling modern age, the two biggest advances of the past decade are Wi-Fi and Nando's. That's the best we can do.'In his latest laugh-out-loud...

David Mitchell / Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse And Other Lessons from Modern Life (Hardback)

 What's wrong with calling a burglar brave? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? Why do so many people want to stop other people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping...

William Cook / Tragically I Was An Only Twin (Hardback)

 For his many friends and fans, Peter Cook was quite simply the funniest man they'd ever met. And seven years since his untimely death, his reputation of one of Britain's greatest comics shows no sign of shrinking. Despite his reputation for...

Jack Dee / Thanks For Nothing (Hardback)

 For the first time, comedian Jack Dee reveals the highs and lows of his early life and disastrous day jobs. You don't just wake up jaundiced and bitter; it's taken Jack years of dedication and commitment to brew his unique cocktail of...

Frank McNally / The Xenophobe's Guide to the Irish

 "The couth truth""A popular perception of the Irish is that they're all fiery, freckle-faced red-heads who'll start a fight at the slightest offence (e.g., being called British). The bit about the freckles is accurate enough, but the typical Irish...

Terry Wogan / Something for the Weekend : The Collected Columns of Sir Terry Wogan

 A collection of Terry Wogan's best TELEGRAPH columns, with his trademark wry take on life. 'It's my feeling that whatever's bothering you, you ought to be able to say it in less than 500 words. The rest is window-dressing ... Probably explains why...

Matt Coyne / Dummy : The Comedy and Chaos of Real-Life Parenting (Hardback)

    'The night before Charlie was born I had this dream. I dreamt that I was a soldier, riding into battle ...completely naked, and on the back of a large, inflatable duck.' Matt Coyne has become a hero for thousands of parents everywhere...

Tony Robinson / No Cunning Plan (Hardback)

   Sir Tony Robinson is a much-loved actor, presenter and author with a stellar career lasting over fifty years. Now, in his long-awaited autobiography, he reveals how the boy from South Woodford went from child stardom in the first stage...

Bill Bryson / The Road to Little Dribbling : More Notes from a Small Island (Hardback)

   Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation's heart and...

Andrew Martin / Funny You Should Say That : Amusing Remarks from Cicero to the Simpsons (Hardback)

   'A fool and his words are soon parted' wrote William Shenstone in 1764; one might add that 'A wit and his words are rarely collected'. Here is the antidote: a dazzling survey of the funniest remarks, quips and observations from Ancient...

Wendy Northcutt / The Darwin Awards III : Even More True Stories of How Dumb Humans Have Met Their Maker (Hardback)

    Just when you thought it was safe to leave the house, there comes a brand new book to remind you that dangerous idiots still lurk everywhere. THE DARWIN AWARDS is the bestselling humour series that honours those people who improve the...

Aziz Ansari / Modern Romance (Hardback)

   The #1 New York Times Bestseller A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation's sharpest comedic voices At some...

Joshua Piven / Worst Case Scenario Work Survival Handbookk

 What could be worse than work? The team behind the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook are back with expert advice for surviving dozens of all-new, nightmare on-the-job scenarios both in the office and on the loading dock. In...

Waverley Books / Irish Jokes

     If you are looking for jokes that give answers to questions such as:What's the difference between a Kerry wedding and a Kerrywake?Why would Dermot not go to bed on his wedding night?and blessings such as:"May your friends have fine...

Miranda Hart / Peggy and Me (Large Paperback)

   Hello dear book browser and welcome to Peggy and Me. The story of my life since getting a beautiful Shih-Tzu Bichon Frise cross puppy (I call the breed a Shitty Frise - fun) in the form of Peggy.Some of you may be thinking: "a book about a...

Maeve Higgins / Off You Go : Away from home and loving it. Sort of. (Large Paperback)

   Maeve Higgins used to think she'd live in Ireland forever. She used to think a lot of crazy things, like 'macadamia nuts are a light snack'. Then the stunning and humble comedian switched to almonds, gave away all of her possessions and...

Billy Connolly / Journey to the Edge of the World

   Billy tells us the gripping story of his adventures in some of the remotest parts of the world.In the summer of 2008 Billy Connolly set sail on a ten-week journey from ocean to ocean: from the Atlantic to the Pacific, by way of the North...

Peter Quinn / Short Back and Sides : Tales From An Irish Barber Shop

   Customer: "Soccer will never take off in America; it's just not going to happen!"Barber: "I heard a quote in a movie "Americans will never embrace soccer!""Customer: "Who said that?"Barber: "Homer Simpson in the Simpsons Movie!"Female...

Mark Kermode / The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex

   If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?How can 3-D be the future of cinema when it's been giving audiences a headache for over a hundred years?Why pay to watch films in cinemas that...

Jim Barker / Scottish Jokes

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Christopher Cerf / The Official Politically Correct Dictionary

    An essential handbook for the nineties, providing a fool proof guard against those politically incorrect faux pas which can ruin social and professional life.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Kevin Goldstein-Jackson / Quick Quips and Longer Jokes : A Raconteur's Directory

    This razor-sharp 'A list' of laughter-lines will prime you for those fleeting conversational moments when a gag has your friends cracking up. Or, if you're after an infusion of irrepressible jocularity for a formal speech, delve within:...

J. S Smith / The Secret Diary of Prince George : Ages 3 1

    Buckingham Palace, London, 2013. My mum and I seem to be on the cover of every magazine these days. She must be really pleased that I ve made her so famous. Before I arrived, I don t suppose many people had even heard of her. Kensington...

Mark Crispin Miller / The Bush Dyslexicon

    President George W. Bush tends to blurt out all or part of what he's really thinking, even as he's trying to lie about it. George W Bush is so illiterate as to turn completely incoherent when he speaks without a script. He seems like...

Gerard Kelly / More Overheard in Dublin : Dublin Wit from overheardindublin.com

   This book is the perfect stocking filler for all ages.A right de-bollicking! I work in a veterinary clinic and I answered a phone call one day: Woman: 'I need to have my dog's stitches out.' Me: 'Okay, what did your dog have done?' Woman:...

Augusten Burroughs / Possible Side Effects

   From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection of true stories yet.From nicotine gum addiction to lesbian personal ads to incontinent dogs, Possible Side Effects...

Spike Milligan / Where Have All the Bullets Gone?

   IN RESPONSE TO POPULAR DEMAND, FOLKS.... THE FIFTH VOLUME OF SPIKE'S UNIQUELY AMAZING MILITARY MEMOIRS OF LIFE IN THE RANKS DURING WORLD WAR 2.   All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the...

Ann Hathaway / The Homecraft Book

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Rosemarie Jarski / Big Book of Wrinklies Wit & Wisdom

  Senior citizens have never gone gentle into that good night: they live life to the fullest, take on new challenges, and show the world how to grow old disgracefully This sparkling collection of saying and quips proves that the stereotypes of...

Jon Ronson / What I Do : More True Tales of Everyday Craziness

 As hilarious as it is perturbing, Jon Ronson's What I Do is a treat for everyone who has ever suspected themselves to be at the mercy of forces they can barely comprehend.In part one, read about the time Jon inadvertently made a lewd gesture to a...

Richard Benson / F in Retakes : Even More Test Paper Blunders

 The F in Exams are over, the results are in and just when you thought it was safe to go back in the classroom... BANG! It's time for F in Retakes!Enjoy another heady dose of hilarious answers that canny students have given to the trickiest exam...

Edward Phillips / The World's Best After-dinner Jokes

    This collection of after-dinner jokes are the latest edition to the "World's Best Jokes" series.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in...