Books similar like I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era

How to Giggle: A Guide to Taking Life Less Seriously

Buy this book on Amazon

I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend

In this engaging memoir, written with heart, wisdom, and a huge helping of hilarity, Martin Short shares stories of his life, revealing how a Canadian kid obsessed with American show business became t…

Buy this book on Amazon

Running the Light

Debauched, divorced and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from from hell …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

From the actor who lived through the most improbable Hollywood success story, with an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer, comes the inspiring, fascinating and laugh-out-loud story of a mysterio…

Buy this book on Amazon

Zombie Spaceship Wasteland

Prepare yourself for a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, one of the most creative, insightful, and hysterical voices on the entertainment scene today. Widely known for his roles in the film…

Buy this book on Amazon

Rubber Balls and Liquor

Buy this book on Amazon

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction — at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal — is the always surprising, sometimes shocking new novel based on his Academy Award- winning film.

RICK…

Buy this book on Amazon

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story…

Buy this book on Amazon

The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy

A dramatic account of the politics and personalities behind NBC's calamitous attempt to reinvent late-night television.

When NBC decided to move Jay Leno into prime time to make room for Conan O'Brien …

Buy this book on Amazon

Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture―and the Magic That Makes It Work

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture , Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions , and Lit Hub

" Comedy Book changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before.”…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Friends of Eddie Coyle

These are the friends of Eddie Jackie Brown, the gun leader; Dillon, part-time contract killer; Jimmy Scalisi, gang leader. All the hoods, gunmen, drivers, thieves and executioners wheeling, dealing, …

Buy this book on Amazon

Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB.

You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it “two thumbs up.”

On a cold Saturday after…

Buy this book on Amazon

I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a,…

Buy this book on Amazon

Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy

Before becoming one of the most successful filmmakers in Hollywood, Judd Apatow was the original comedy nerd. At fifteen, he took a job washing dishes in a local comedy club—just so he could watch end…

Buy this book on Amazon

Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

From grand follies to misunderstood masterpieces, disastrous sequels to catastrophic literary adaptations, Tim Robey's hugely entertaining Box Office Poison tells an alternative history of Hollywood, …

Buy this book on Amazon

Henderson the Rain King

A middle-age American millionaire goes to Africa in search of a more meaningful life and receives the adoration of an African tribe that believes he has a gift for rainmaking.

Buy this book on Amazon

Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen

From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of 1999—arguably the most groundbreaking year in American cinematic history.

In 1999, Hollywood as we kno…

Buy this book on Amazon

Cinema Speculation

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: a deliriously entertaining, wickedly intelligent cinema book as unique and…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller
Winner of the Best Non-Fiction Book Prize at the 2018 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards

"Ben Fritz crafts an electrifying and essential book that carefully…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Sirens' Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource

From the New York Times bestselling author and television and podcast host, a powerful, wide-angle reckoning with how the assault from attention capitalism on our minds and our hearts has reordered ou…

Buy this book on Amazon

Darkness at Noon

Darkness at Noon is a fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his …

Buy this book on Amazon

Apropos of Nothing

Buy this book on Amazon

The Princess Diarist

The last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist is an intimate, hilarious, and revealing recollection of what happened behind the scenes on one of the most famous film se…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JARVIS COCKERIn the summer o…

Buy this book on Amazon

Small Steps (Holes, #2)

Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it’s hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. The…

Buy this book on Amazon

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to make you fall in love with the sport all over again.

Posnanski writes of major moments that created leg…

Buy this book on Amazon

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…

Buy this book on Amazon

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind…

Buy this book on Amazon

Based on a True Story: A Memoir

When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre "one step below instruction manuals." Norm then p…

Buy this book on Amazon

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall, About Last Night, and Glory, creator of the show thirtysomething, and executive producer…

Buy this book on Amazon

I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era

Similar books (30)