How to Be Funny: The One and Only Practical Guide for Every Occasion, Situation, and Disaster (no kidding)

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You can use humor to make the intensity of your story more bearable, or to lull the reader into a false sense of security before the rug is pulled out from under them. The stories are about, as the narrator puts it, people like her: everyone in New York “if … you took away the guys” and “the people who didn’t know normal things, like the shape of Florida,” and all the others who somehow fail to be like “me and my friend Liz. My Sister, the Serial Killer moves like a thriller – pacy and punchy – but at the same time it's laced with buckets of dark comic energy. Her debut novel A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is a family comedy about two feuding daughters trying to free their father, who is writing a history of agricultural machinery, from the clutches of Valentina, a Ukrainian divorcee who specialises in “boil-in-the-bag cooking”. Although I’m a huge fan of PG Wodehouse in general and his Blandings stories in particular, and although Clive James’s series of unreliable memoirs has caused me to snort out loud in public, and after having weighed up Max Beerbohm’s Seven Men and Two Others, I’ve gone for Augustus Carp Esq, by Himself.

Charlie and Eli Sisters are dispatched to find a chemist who has discovered a mysterious and valuable formula. Comedy genius Spike Milligan wrote hilarious poems and books but his letters contain some of the best material he ever wrote.

Manipulative, enigmatic, sharp-tongued, opinionated, she’s an extraordinary comic creation; imagine Miss Jean Brodie played by Alastair Sim. He does not want his new friends to learn the real reason he is in a wheelchair - as the only survivor of a tragic car crash that killed his parents.

Along with — and probably because of — an increasingly world-weary world, comedy, and the way that we consume it, has matured. In this candid and bawdy memoir, Tom Rasmussen, who grew up in Lancaster, England, speaks both as Tom and their performance alter ego “Crystal”. jpg","smallWidth":460,"smallHeight":345,"bigWidth":728,"bigHeight":546,"licensing":"

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