Funny Books on the Point with Mindy Todd
Today was Melanie Lauwer’s final time on “The Point”. She is moving on to a new place to start a new phase of her life. We will miss her and her great contributions to the book discussions each month. So to mark the occasion, and to send her off on a high note, we wanted to talk about funny books (even though we feel like crying). The show will be rebroadcast tonight at 7 PM on 90.1 FM WCAI or listen to the podscast on capeandislands.org.
Next month, local mystery author Peter Abrahams, aka Spencer Quinn, will join Mindy and me to talk about mystery books.
Funny Books
Melanie’s Picks
Encyclopedia of Jewish Humor: From Biblical Times to the Modern Age by Henry D. Spalding
The Snark Bible by Lawrence Dorfman
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast
I Hate Everyone … Starting with Me by Joan Rivers
Braindroppings by George Carlin
The Comedy Bible: From Stand-Up to Sitcom – The Comedy’s Writer’s Ultimate How-To Guide by Judy Carter
A Prairie Home Companion Pretty Good Joke Book (5th edition) by Garrison Keillor
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
How Right You Are, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Not mentioned but pretty funny!
Twitter: The Comic (The Book) by Mike Rosenthal (@VectorBelly)
Jill’s Picks
The Zombie Survival Guide: complete protection from the living dead by Max Brooks
One for the Books by Joe Queenan
An Encyclopedia of Modern American Humor edited by Bennett Cerf (1954)
The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
How About Never – Is Never Good for You: my life in cartoons by Bob Mankoff
Kids Books
17 Things I’m Not Allowed to do Anymore by Jenny Offill & Nancy Carpenter
11 Experiments That Failed by Jenny Offill & Nancy Carpenter
Wicked Big Toddlah by Kevin Hawkes
Not Enough Time For …
This is Ridiculous This is Amazing by Jason Good
How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book by Diane Muldrow
Confessions of the World’s Best Father by Dave Engledow
The 50 Funniest American Writers: an anthology of humor from Mark Twain to The Onion *according to Andy Borowitz
Russell Baker’s Book of American Humor edited by Russell Baker