America's most beloved wiseass finally tells his life story with all the humor you'd expect from a man who made a career out of making fun of pretty much everything.

How does the son of a Presbyterian minister wind up winning a Pulitzer Prize for writing a wildly inaccurate newspaper column read by millions of people?

In Class Clown, Dave Barry takes us on a hilarious ride, starting with a childhood largely spent throwing rocks for entertainment--there was no internet--and preparing for nuclear war by hiding under a classroom desk. After literally getting elected class clown in high school, he went to college, where, as an English major, he read snippets of great literature when he was not busy playing in a rock band (it was the sixties).

He began his journalism career at a small-town Pennsylvania newspaper where he learned the most important rule of local journalism: never confuse a goose with a duck. His journey then took a detour into the business world, where as a writing consultant he spent years trying, with limited success, to get corporate folks to, for God's sake, get the point. Somehow from there he wound up as a humor columnist for The Miami Herald, where his boss was a wild man who encouraged him to write about anything that struck him as amusing and to never worry about alienating anyone.

His columns were not popular with everyone: He managed to alienate a vast army of Neil Diamond fans, and the entire state of Indiana. But he also developed a loyal following of readers who alerted him to the threat of exploding toilets, not to mention the fire hazards posed by strawberry pop-tarts and Rollerblade Barbie, which he demonstrated to the nation on the David Letterman show. He led his readers on a crusade against telemarketers that ultimately caused the national telemarketers association to stop answering its own phones because it was getting--irony alert--too many unwanted calls. He has also run for president multiple times, although so far without success.

He became a book author and joined a literary rock band, which was not good at playing music but did once perform with Bruce Springsteen, who sang backup to Dave. As for his literary merits, Dave writes: I'll never have the critical acclaim of, say, Marcel Proust. But was Marcel Proust ever on Carson? Did he ever steal a hotel sign for Oprah?

Class Clown isn't just a memoir; it's a vibrant celebration of a life rich with humor, absurdity, joy, and sadness. Dave says the most important wisdom imparted by his Midwestern parents was never to take anything too seriously. This laughter-filled book is proof that he learned that lesson well.

Give the gift of funny to anyone in your life (maybe even yourself!) who could use a dose of irreverent humor about why work stinks.

Customers want you to magically produce something from the back room. Bosses schedule you on your day off. Corporate policies are mandated that make zero practical sense. Sound familiar?

If you've ever worked in customer service (or any job, really), you know that everyone else--the customer, the boss, the company--is always right, and never the employee. Well, lucky for you, the Angry Retail Guy is more furious--and funnier--than ever in this hilariously unhinged guide to all the things we wish we could say out loud at work . . . without getting fired. In The Customer Is Always Wrong, you'll laugh (and maybe cry) at this rant-filled, illustrated attack on all the frustrating things that suck about work.

Expanding on the ire-filled, laugh-out-loud viral videos that have made him a (whispered) workplace name, Scott Seiss joyfully eviscerates not only overbearing customers but every annoying aspect of work like purposeless job interview questions, debatable brand values, and the walking human trainwrecks that are our bosses. Scott guides you all the way from first applying to the job, to inevitably gritting your teeth and smiling on your last day when that one manager you despise says, Come back and visit us!

The Customer Is Always Wrong is for anyone who:

• Is tired of their raise being as close as scientifically possible to 0 percent
• Wants to tell their boss that not even the self-checkout machines want to work here
• Is prepared to tell the next customer who asks to see the manager that the manager has no idea what's going on either
• Calls in sick whenever their PTO request is denied
• Believes entering a store five minutes before it closes should be illegal
• Explains, on a weekly basis, why someone can't use a coupon that expired 17 years ago
• Is physically repulsed by the phrase, At this company, we're a family. . . .

This tongue-in-cheek commiseration for workers will make you laugh out loud at the things that drive you crazy in the workplace. With Scott's signature rants, funny anecdotes, and absurd musings, this book celebrates and empowers underpaid and overworked employees with an uproarious, illustrated ode to what we really think about our jobs and the customers that come with them (except the ones who read this book, of course).

We've all been there.

Something happens at work, and suddenly multiple highly inappropriate comments are fighting to be the first out of your mouth.

Any of these sound familar?

• WTF are you even talking about?
• That is literally the dumbest idea I have ever heard
• You're wrong, but I'll let you figure it out yourself.
• I love it when you take credit for my ideas.
• Did you even read my f*cking email?
• Your idea is terrible, but I'll pretend to consider it.
• Do you even have any idea what you are doing?
• No, we don't need any more effing slides.
• And just how the f*ck do you expect me to do that?
• I can't believe how clueless you are about what actually happens here.

This book is humorous look at 75 inappropriate comments that we might actually want to say, and some HR-approved ways of saying it instead. It will be a great stress reliever at work when you are fuming about something but don't know how to really handle it. Maybe even use it as code with your coworker friends, so that when someone says I value your input, but I have some concerns. you all know that is code for That is literally the dumbest idea I have ever heard. And see who can keep a straight face in the meeting.: )

Please note: this book is for entertainment purposes only. No certified HR professional was involved in the creation of this humor book. Use it at your own discretion.

You've probably never heard of Peter Friedman, but he's been around some of the biggest celebrities, best companies, and boldest television campaigns of the last half century. Now, Peter recounts a few of those moments when the most popular people on the planet interacted with an unknown ad guy.

A heartwarming collection of stories filled with anecdotes and life lessons, I'll Get the Tip brings you both center stage and behind the scenes with icons of sport, music, politics, and entertainment. Through Peter's good-natured storytelling, you will experience a fun and fascinating trip into a world that few people get to see-alongside one of the largely invisible but extremely valuable professionals who help make television commercial magic.

Funny because it's true. Comedian, star of the Netflix special Everything's Fine, and Trump lip-syncing sensation Sarah Cooper presents the must-have book you never knew you needed, 100 Tricks to Appear Smart in Meetings. In it, you will learn how to appear smart in less than half the time it takes to actually learn anything.

You know those subtle tricks your coworkers are all guilty of? The constant nodding, pretend concentration, useless rhetorical questions? These tricks make them seem like they know what they're doing when in fact they have no clue. This behavior is so ingrained, so subtle, and so often mistaken for true intelligence that identifying it, calling it out, or compiling it into an exhaustive digest has never been attempted. Until now.

Complete with illustrated tips, examples, and scenarios, 100 Tricks gives you actionable ways to use words like actionable, in order to sound smart. Every type of meeting is covered, from general meetings where you stopped paying attention almost immediately, to one-on-one meetings you zoned out on, to impromptu meetings you were painfully subjected to at the last minute. It's all here.

Open this book to any page and find an easy-to-digest trick with an even easier-to-digest illustration, guiding you on:

• how to nail the big meeting by pacing and nodding
• most effective ways to listen to your coworkers while still completely ignoring them
• the key to making your presentations interactive.

If you hadn't noticed these behaviors before, you will see them now--from your colleagues, your managers, and soon yourself. Each trick is a mirror to the reality of what happens in meetings, told in the form of hilariously bad advice--advice that you might just want to take. But probably not. But maybe.

Sly satire that will bring endless joy to anyone who has ever endured the drudgery of corporate life. --Dan Lyons, writer for HBO's Silicon Valley and New York Times-bestselling author of Disrupted

***An Instant New York Times Bestseller***

A Goodreads Choice Nominee for Best Humor Book

One of Vulture's Best Comedy Books of 2022 One of Business Insider's Best Books About Celebrities One of NPR's Books We Love in 2022 One of Hudson's Best Books of 2022 One of Audible's Best of Audiobooks of 2022

From Conan O'Brien's longtime assistant and cohost of his podcast, Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend, a completely hilarious and irreverent how-to guide for becoming a terrible, yet unfireable employee, spilling her trade secrets for minimizing effort while maximizing the rewards.

Sona Movsesian didn't wake up one day and decide to become the World's Worst Assistant. Achieving such greatness is a gradual process--one that starts with long hours and hard work before it eventually descends into sneaking low-dosage edibles into your lunch and napping on your boss's couch.

With a foreword from Conan O'Brien, The World's Worst Assistant is populated with hysterical black-and-white illustrations, comics, and more. It's a mixture of how-tos (like How to Nap at Work and How to Watch TV at Your Desk), tips for becoming untouchable (like memorizing social security and credit card numbers and endearing yourself to friends and family), and incredible personal stories from Sona's twelve years spent working for Conan that put their adorable closeness and professional dysfunction on display. In these pages, Sona will explain her descent from eager, hard-working, ambitious, detail-orientated assistant to self-awarded title-holder for the worst in history.

This book is irresistible fun you'll want to give to every young professional in your life. For readers of heartfelt humor like that of Phoebe Robinson and Colin Jost, The World's Worst Assistant is a chance for fans, viewers, and listeners of Conan's shows and podcast to fall in love with Sona and Conan all over again.

Comedian, star of the Netflix special Everything's Fine, and Trump lip-syncing sensation Sarah Cooper illustrates how women can achieve their dreams, succeed in their careers, and become leaders, all without harming the fragile male ego.

Ambitious women are so scary. In this fast-paced business world, female leaders need to make sure they're not perceived as pushy, aggressive, or competent.

Chapters include, among others, 9 Non-threatening Leadership Strategies for Women, How to Ace Your Job Interview Without Over-acing It, and Choose Your Own Adventure: Do You Want to Be Likable or Successful? It even includes several pages to doodle on while men finish what they're saying. Each chapter also features an exercise with a set of inaction items designed to challenge women to be less challenging.

And, when all else fails, a set of wearable mustaches is included to allow women to seem more man-like. This will cancel out any need to change their leadership style. In fact, it may even lead to a quick promotion

We can all agree that the operating room is a very serious place to be for patients. Sometimes funny things happen to staff and with patients that make us smile and sometimes laugh hysterically. This is a compilation of some of those moments.

Rude, raucous and often funny in a newsroom, Larry McCoy has stuck to that winning combination in this memoir covering his life from an inexperienced writer at UPI to news director at CBS Radio to a retired journalist who is as appalled as non-journalists by what many news organizations consider news these days. Too old to be hired again now, he pokes fun at former employers and many of their products and practices. He denounces performance reviews, the U.S. media's obsession with the British royal family, broadcasters who talk down to their audience, journalists who make up stories, know-nothing bosses, and a universe where virtually everyone feels the need to tweet. Never comfortable swimming with the tide, McCoy says the best journalist he ever met didn't even finish high school and that newswomen may ask better questions than newsmen. As a public service to workers in all professions, he provides guidelines on how to write a smart, snappy note to your boss and, if that doesn't do the trick, to your boss's boss. But he has kind words for writers, producers, overseas stringers, desk assistants, technicians and, yes, even a few anchors. McCoy was a writer, editor, and producer at UPI, ABC, CBS and Radio Free Europe. While a manager at CBS, the radio newsroom won two treasured Peabody Awards. He wrote or edited copy for some of the biggest names in broadcasting, including Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Ed Bradley, Charles Osgood, Dallas Townsend, Douglas Edwards, Christopher Glenn and Ted Koppel and has a story or two about each of them. LARRY McCOY grew up in Indiana and lives on Long Island, New York with his wife, Irene, also a writer. More than half a century ago, a radio station owner told him, Sarcasm doesn't go in a small market. He's still trying to prove her wrong.

A biting humor collection about the cult of productivity and the feeling of impending doom that comes with it, from Reductress.

Juggling careers, maintaining relationships, managing side gigs, and sustaining an engaging social media presence is hard--and we're expected to do it all while battling the ever-present feeling of existential dread against the backdrop of climate catastrophe, an ongoing pandemic, and social isolation.

From the editors and most popular writers of Reductress, the only satirical women's magazine in publication, How to Stay Productive When the World is Ending is a collection of essays, how-tos, and inspirational graphics to help you laugh when staying both sane and productive in a commodified world feels impossible. From 'Doing What You Love' and Why That's Bad, to Why I'm Prioritizing My Career Over Finding a Better Career, this collection perfectly skewers the indignities, big and small, of living through late-stage capitalism.

Pap and Pup Peters, those intrepid tort lawyers whose zany exploits have delighted readers of Tort$ R Us, Please Pass The Tort$ and Send In The Tort Lawyer$, return with yet another round of legal shenanigans guaranteed to make you laugh until you weep.Their latest antics take them into the brave new world of artificial intelligence: a massive lawsuit against two Super Pacs who poured money into the campaign of a New York Congressman whose entire persona was generated by an AI program; and a lawsuit on behalf of sultry actresses and models, including the unforgettable Lydia Lowlace, whose voices have been appropriated for a series of female chatbots who provide comfort, and lots of sexual innuendo, to lonely men.
In one of their most creative lawsuits ever, they pursue three leading auction houses who purchased and then resold expensive jewelry and watches stolen from the rich and famous by the Gentleman Thief and his bogus Swiss heiress girlfriend. And Mona Lott makes yet another appearance in her ongoing feud with her small Connecticut town over lawn mowing.Settle into your favorite chair so that you don't fall on the floor laughing at the latest exploits of these lovable lawyers who leave no stone unturned in their quest for fame, fortune and fun.

Critics Lavish Praise on SEND IN THE TORT LAWYERS$
SEND IN THE TORT LAWYER$ is frighteningly funny. Morrison keeps you in a kind of kaleidoscopic blur where nonsense is normal and logic seems out of place. -Matthew Pearson, Banker and Author
The laughs keep coming as fast as the torts and the wild settlements. No one with the slightest interest in law, life, or shenanigans should miss this third volume of the Pap and Pup series. -Mike Abram, Retired Labor Lawyer
The laughs never stop, as T.C. Morrison has once more struck comedy gold. -Jack Isler, Retired Physician
WARNING TO READERS: This book is not intended to be consumed in a public space! Readers should find a quiet corner where others will not be disturbed by unexpected outbursts of loud laughter. -Richard Gilbert, College Professor

A graduate of Otterbein University (Ohio) and New York University Law School, T. C. Morrison spent his 50-year legal career writing briefs and trying cases around the country for a series of New York City law firms.

Have lots of fun and laughter with this hilarious lawyers joke book. Lawyers, attorneys, legal executives, paralegals and others will enjoy this collection of funny jokes for lawyers. You will be rolling on the floor with laughter at this huge case load of gags.
This mixture of lawyer jokes are laugh out loud funny and will prove that lawyers have a good sense of humor.
This book is brand new in November 2020, and it is guaranteed to give you a permanent smile.
Inside you will find many quality legal jokes, many cheesy lawyer jokes and many stories to make you laugh out loud.
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If the company you work for aggravates you daily, laughing along with All Worked Up is the key to better sleep.

All Worked Up is a collection of insightful, funny, sometimes acerbic poems calling out behaviors of companies and the people who run them. Thought-provoking and entertaining, it mocks the games boards of directors and executives play, the ineptness of those too often allowed to manage others, infuriating colleagues, and many more work-related and work-adjacent sources of exasperation.

Experiences and people showcased in this collection are recognizable to anyone who has been a part of a big business, government agency or major institution. Every reader will find comfort knowing they are not alone in their frustration. Every reader will enjoy the power of laughter and satire to counter the impact of work stress on their non-working lives.

In this collection, author A. Martin Block shares his unique, firsthand perspectives gained from forty years as a civil trial attorney working as outside counsel and in-house litigation director for some of the world's largest corporations and government agencies.

All Worked Up is a brilliant, funny, thoroughly refreshing take on life in and out of the office. - L. Elliott

Give yourself-and your coworkers-the gift of laughter, and let the sarcasm flow (just subtly enough to keep your job)!

HR Approved Ways to Tell Coworkers They Are Stupid is the essential workplace handbook for those who've ever felt like screaming the truth but have decided to take the high road. Packed with HR-approved alternatives to get your point across without crossing any lines, this book brings much-needed humor to everyday office situations in the cleverest way possible.

• Sarcasm in a Safe Package - Learn the fine art of expressing exactly what you mean (well, almost) without risking a meeting with HR.
• Hilarious, Relatable Humor - Perfect for dealing with brilliant ideas, endless email chains, and all the delightful quirks of office life.
• The Ultimate Gag Gift for Coworkers - Whether it's Secret Santa, White Elephant, or just a thoughtful way to brighten someone's day, this book is guaranteed to be a hit.
• Professional Wit with a Dash of Snark - Smartly crafted responses to handle the absurdities of office life, all while maintaining your professional edge.

Grab your copy today and turn your everyday office frustrations into laughs. It's the perfect gift for yourself or anyone who needs a witty, relatable escape from office life!

Every young grad needs this fun, snarky primer for the real world.

You'll meet the world's brightest, you'll hang with the best
And now that you've met them, you'll work with the rest

If you're looking for an inspirational book for young people starting life's great adventure, you probably want to read Dr. Seuss's Oh, the Places You'll Go But before your first day of actual work, you need to meet Dr. Suits for a dose of reality. You won't learn this stuff in high school, college, or gift books by world-famous authors. But fear not

With his unique blend of hilarious verse and images, Dr. Suits can help young grads get a handle on what's really about to hit them. Oh, the Meetings You'll Go To is a brutally honest, and ultimately uplifting, take on the struggles of post-grad life that every 20-something will relate to.

Tough love never made you laugh so hard.

A comical look on how to earn extra cash in a not so legitimate way. This book takes advice from the Mafia, to politicians, giving insight to readers on how quickly money can be made in the underworld.

Need an icebreaker? Intro to a speech? Moment to relax while working at your computer? Well, here is the book for you!

Inside, you will find pages of humorous stories and things to think about differently. And you might even learn something in an enjoyable way!

Behind the uniform lies the untold chaos of postal life. Signed, Sealed, Misdelivered invites readers into the hilarious, heartwarming, and sometimes absurd world of mail carriers, where every delivery is a battle against human quirks, logistical nightmares, and mischievous cats.

From packages that disappear into suburban black holes to customers convinced their misplaced mail is a global conspiracy, Farroh Ferguson delivers a sharp, satirical tale with biting wit and vivid storytelling. Through side-splitting retrieval missions, rogue mail trucks, and the battle of wits with fragile packages, Ferguson reveals the raw humanity and resilience of the often-overlooked postal worker.

Equal parts comedy, commentary, and chaos, Signed, Sealed, Misdelivered is a tribute to the frontline heroes of snail mail, showing that even in a world of advanced technology, humor and connection remain first-class. Perfect for fans of workplace comedy, slice-of-life fiction, and anyone who's ever wondered what really happens behind the counter at the post office.

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Ever see a bartender take cash from a sale and put it directly into the tips, instead of putting it in the cash register? This book is a first for depicting the 'seedy side' of the bartending business. The book shows, from actual bar spotter reports, the scams that some bartenders use to circumvent the system (register). You will be amazed at what goes on (if you don't already know) For any bar patron, this book adds to the enjoyment of sitting at a bar and spotting the activities of the bartender with knowledge.