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What's So Funny?: My Hilarious Life

Six-time Emmy award-winning funny man Tim Conway, best known for his characters on The Carol Burnett Show , offers a straight-shooting and hilarious memoir about his life on stage and off as an actor …

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Backstage with the Original Hollywood Square: Relive 16 years of laughter with Peter Marshall, the master of The Hollywood Squares

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The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy

In The Comedians , comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts. Based on o…

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Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

A definitive biography of Lorne Michaels, the man behind America’s most beloved comedy show

Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revere…

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Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy classic Airplane! by the legendary writers and directors of the hit film.

Airplane! premiered on July 2nd, …

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Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach

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I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This and Other Things That Strike Me as Funny

The first book ever from an icon of American comedy -- a hilarious combination of stories from his career and observations about life That stammer. Those basset-hound eyes. That bone-dry wit. There ha…

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The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder

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Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything

The hilarious behind-the-scenes story of two guys who went out for coffee and dreamed up Seinfeld—the cultural sensation that changed television and bled into the real world, altering the lives of eve…

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Humphrey Bogart: A Life from Beginning to End

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The Fifties

The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of …

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3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the pinnacle of American culture in 1959, told through the journey of three towering artists—Miles Davis,…

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The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking courtroom drama that was splashed across front pages from coast to coast--this is the fascinating true st…

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