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You've almost certainly laughed at Scovell's jokes-you just didn't know it until now.
Just the Funny Parts is a juicy and scathingly funny insider look at how pop culture gets made. For more than thirty years, writer, producer and director Nell Scovell worked behind the scenes of iconic TV shows, including The Simpsons, Late Night with David Letterman, Murphy Brown, NCIS, The Muppets, and Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, which she created and executive...
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Central Point Library Branch
792.7609 APA
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792.7609 APA
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Talent Library Branch
792.7609 APA
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792.7609 APA
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"Before his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosett, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station, and he would call up the biggest comics of the day - comics...
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A hilarious collection of stories from the life of The New York Times bestselling author of Look Again At last, together in one collection, are Lisa Scottoline's wildly popular Philadelphia Inquirer columns. In her column, Lisa lets her hair down, roots and all, to show the humorous side of life from a woman's perspective. The Sunday column debuted in 2007 and on the day it started, Lisa wrote, "I write novels, so I usually have 100, 000 words to...
4) Dad is fat
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Central Point Library Branch
818.6 GAF
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818.6 GAF
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Redwood Campus
PN6231 .F3 G34 2013
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PN6231 .F3 G34 2013
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"In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children--everything from cousins ("celebrities for little kids") to toddlers' communication skills ("they always sound like they have traveled by horseback for hours to deliver important news"), to the eating habits of four year olds ("there is no difference...
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Ashland Library
814.6 ROB
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814.6 ROB
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Talent Library Branch
814.6 ROB
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814.6 ROB
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"From New York Times bestselling author and star of 2 Dope Queens, Phoebe Robinson, comes a new, hilarious, and timely essay collection on gender, race, dating, and a world that seems to always be a self-starting Dumpster fire. Wouldn't it be great if life came with an instruction manual? Of course, but like access to Michael B. Jordan's house, none of us are getting any. Thankfully, Phoebe Robinson is ready to share everything she's experienced in...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears.
"A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.”—The...
"A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.”—The...
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Medford Library Branch
921 SCHUMER
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921 SCHUMER
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Riverside Campus
PN2287 .S33 A3 2016
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PN2287 .S33 A3 2016
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Amy Schumer, Emmy Award-winning comedian, actress, writer, and star, mines her past for stories about her teenage years, her family, relationship, and sex, and shares the experiences that have shaped who she is -- a woman with the courage to bare her soul and stand up for what she believes in, all while making us laugh. Ranging from the raucous to the romantic, the heartfelt to the harrowing, this entertaining collection is the literary equivalent...
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Ashland Library
921 EPHRON, N
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921 EPHRON, N
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Eagle Point Library Branch
921 EPHRON, N
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921 EPHRON, N
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Jacksonville Library Branch
921 EPHRON, N
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921 EPHRON, N
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Central Point Library Branch
LP 814 EPH 2007
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LP 814 EPH 2007
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White City Library Branch
LP 814 EPH 2007
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LP 814 EPH 2007
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A candid, hilarious look at women of a certain age and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
“Wickedly witty ... Crackling sharp ... Fireworks shoot out [of this collection].” —The Boston Globe
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron chronicles her
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Furiously Happy...
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.
In the irreverent Let’s...
When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.
In the irreverent Let’s...
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Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach's "acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating" (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue.
For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to
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Gold Hill Library Branch
818.602 WES
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818.602 WES
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Jacksonville Library Branch
818.602 WES
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818.602 WES
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Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny.
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible — like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you — writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
From a painfully shy childhood in which...
Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible — like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you — writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.
From a painfully shy childhood in which...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The classic chronicle of a “terribly misguided and terribly funny” (The Washington Post) hike of the Appalachian Trail, from the author of A Short History of Nearly Everything and The Body
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after...
“The best way of escaping into nature.”—The New York Times
Back in America after...
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Redwood Campus - Graphic Novels and Manga Area
Graphic Novel Chast Roz Can't
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Graphic Novel Chast Roz Can't
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Table Rock Campus
PN 6710 .C43 C3 2014
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PN 6710 .C43 C3 2014
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Medford Library Branch
741.5 CHA 2014
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741.5 CHA 2014
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Ashland Library
741.5 CHA 2014
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741.5 CHA 2014
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In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial,...
14) Half empty
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Central Point Library Branch
814.6 RAK
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814.6 RAK
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Talent Library Branch
814.6 RAK
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814.6 RAK
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In this deeply smart and sneakily poignant collection of essays, the bestselling author of Fraud and Don’t Get Too Comfortable makes an inspired case for always assuming the worst—because then you’ll never be disappointed.
Whether he’s taking on pop culture phenomena with Oscar Wilde-worthy wit or dealing with personal tragedy, Rakoff’s sharp observations and humorist’s flair for the absurd will...
Whether he’s taking on pop culture phenomena with Oscar Wilde-worthy wit or dealing with personal tragedy, Rakoff’s sharp observations and humorist’s flair for the absurd will...
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A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers...
16) Yes please
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Applegate Library Branch
AB 921 POEHLER A
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AB 921 POEHLER A
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Central Point Library Branch
AB 921 POEHLER A
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AB 921 POEHLER A
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Rogue River Library Branch
AB 921 POEHLER A
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AB 921 POEHLER A
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The actress best known for her work on "Parks and Recreation" and "Saturday Night Live" reveals personal stories and offers her humorous take on such topics as love, friendship, parenthood, and her relationship with Tina Fey.
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Medford Library Branch
818.602 KAL 2012
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818.602 KAL 2012
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Ashland Library
818.602 KAL 2012
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818.602 KAL 2012
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Redwood Campus
Audio PN6165.K35 I8 2011
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Audio PN6165.K35 I8 2011
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Table Rock Campus
Audio PN6165 .K35 I8 2011
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Audio PN6165 .K35 I8 2011
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The writer and actress from "The Office" shares observations on topics ranging from favorite male archetypes and her hatred of dieting to her relationship with her mother and the haphazard creative process on the show.
18) Wishful drinking
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Ashland Library
921 FISHER
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921 FISHER
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Eagle Point Library Branch
921 FISHER
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921 FISHER
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Fisher comes clean (well, sort of) with the crazy truth that is her life, in her first-ever memoir.
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Ashland Library
921 NOAH
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921 NOAH
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Phoenix Library Branch
921 NOAH
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921 NOAH
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Redwood Campus
PN2287 .N557 A3 2016
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PN2287 .N557 A3 2016
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Redwood Campus
Audio PN2287 .N557 A3 2016
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Audio PN2287 .N557 A3 2016
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Table Rock Campus
Audio PN2287 .N557 A3 2016
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Audio PN2287 .N557 A3 2016
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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...
20) Bossypants
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Medford Library Branch
921 FEY T
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921 FEY T
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Jacksonville Library Branch
921 FEY T
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921 FEY T
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Redwood Campus
PN2287 .F4255 A3 2012
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PN2287 .F4255 A3 2012
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Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Ashland Library
LP 921 FEY T 2011
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LP 921 FEY T 2011
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Phoenix Library Branch
LP 921 FEY T 2011
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LP 921 FEY T 2011
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Rogue River Library Branch
LP 921 FEY T 2011
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LP 921 FEY T 2011
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From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon, comedian Tina Fey reveals all, and proves that you're no one until someone calls you bossy.