Joke Humor Satire

"AN ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT SATIRE" "a fun read and not to mention hilarious" "Peak fiction." "this is ironically genius level." On her way home with a report card full of D and F grades, Amy is hit by a truck and transported into a world of stupidity. Now, she must use her idiocy to defeat enemies both smart and dumb, evolve into the ultimate idiot, and remake the universe into one that accepts and celebrates stupidity. Along the way, she'll fight and team up with other monster girls, free more than one world from the tyranny of intelligence, and show everyone the true power, love, and wisdom...

All too often, this brilliant novel of thwarted love and revenge miscarried has been read for its political implications. Now, a quarter century after The Joke was first published and several years after the collapse of the Soviet-imposed Czechoslovak regime, it becomes easier to put such...

It's 1987. America has thirty million personal computers. The monitor glows. The fan hums. The screen saver runs in the empty room, directed at the empty chair, and no one is asking what it's doing. Dr. Glen Hadley is asking. Computers Are Satanic is a full-length parody self-help book written in the voice of a completely sincere, completely unhinged wellness researcher who has spent a year in his Scottsdale home office with a color-coded binder, a Selectric II typewriter, and a growing certainty that the American public deserves to know the truth about CTRL+ALT+DEL. Hadley analyzes the ...

The Cosmic Joke is a wildly original, spiritually sharp, and side-splittingly human look at the strange and beautiful mess of modern awakening. This audiobook is for seekers who’ve ever accidentally chanted in the wrong key, meditated through a cat attack, or wondered if that "sacred sign" was actually just a pigeon with bad timing.

Master the Art of Making Readers Laugh Why do some writers effortlessly make us snort coffee through our noses, while others try desperately to be funny and land with a quiet, terrible thud? The difference isn't talent — it's craft. And craft can be learned. USA Today bestselling author Steve Alcorn draws on more than 25 years of teaching experience to break down the mechanics of humor writing: how to find comedy in everyday life, build jokes that actually land, sustain a funny voice across hundreds of pages, and get your humor out into the world. From Aristophanes to TikTok, from ...

What is a gnome to do in a gaming world filled with fake news? Cosmo never wanted to do anything more than build fantastical machines and spin gears. But, when the Evil Queen puts him in charge of the city paper he finds himself having to spin the news just to stay alive. Pipopolis is a city awash in change, the local economy struggling as dungeon diving has given way to exploration of an open world. A city where the lawful and good can be real jerks, and the evil are just trying to pay the bills.

Zombies, chocolate cake, and dumpster fires. Must be Thursday. My name is Wysdom Ward. I’m a former cop who became a private detective to help those who fell through the cracks. The cases the police wouldn’t touch. But now, I’m up to my eyeballs in reluctant corpses, snappy seniors, and a new employee who may be trying to kill me Plus, that pesky little conspiracy that threatens to end my family and my town - forever. The Wysdom Ward Case Files are humorous mysteries that feature a wise-cracking private detective who’s dealing with perimenopause, mom guilt, and men telling her to ...

Dookie is a poop munching bug in need of cash. Pierre is a praying mantis with a mind for business but has a name on his head. Can these insects help one another before it's too late? Dookie is far from a typical poop-rolling dung beetle. Disappointed he didn't get an iPoo for Christmas, Dookie needs to find a way to earn some dung dollars. After a failed business venture, Dookie's luck changes when a praying mantis moves in next door. The entrepreneurial mantis turns a local diarrhea outbreak into a poop theme park wonderland the dung beetle community can enjoy. So finally for Dookie, the ...

Jim Norton is a pervert in the truest sense of the word. The physical equivalent of a tall slug, he pays top dollar for massages with happy endings and is fascinated by shitty sitcoms and fat girls. He is also, at times, racially offensive and morally repugnant. He spares no one in his comedy --...

Why are mountain ranges funny? Because they're hill areas. I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me. Garbage collectors don't need formal education to get hired. They pick it up as they go along. That awkward silence that left you longing for an awkward joke – make the moment less awkward. That one coworker that rattles off knee slappers with a breeze – now you can be her! It's your turn to give the jokers in your life (friends, dads, moms, uncles, aunts, siblings, spouses, neighbors) their own embarrassingly cringey eye roll. Maybe you need a chuckle. Or your ...

Old Man's War author John Scalzi's sendup of the heroic fantasy genre, a finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Short Story. An over-the-top, humorous short story representing the prologue for a "future" book (written as an April Fool's Joke) published on Tor.com. The title of the series and book...

A gorgeous ginger boyfriend, a busy job, and a happy social life - Kirsty's perfect beginning couldn't be better. So why is she still chaotically lurching through her life? Kirsty is kept busy managing Cupid's Sting dating agency and enjoying her time with Ben. However, his unwillingness to commit is a sticking point although Kirsty suspects her insecurities relate to her own troubled relationship with her father. Arguments arise, but could better communication be the key? On top of everything else, Kirsty's mother and father are trying to work out the rules of life themselves while making ...

Comedy can be funny—until it gets you killed. When struggling stand-up comic Dan Goodis witnesses the assassination of a reclusive physicist who leaves him a mysterious code, his life spirals into paranoia and danger. Hunted by a secret cabal and betrayed by the woman sent to protect him, Dan can’t tell what’s real—or whom to trust. As he decodes the fragments, his once-ordinary life collapses into deception and fear. Comedy clubs become interrogation rooms and therapy sessions, and love turns into a weapon he can’t control. Haunted by betrayal and surrounded by enemies, Dan must ...

JOKES! SATIRE! You want to laugh, and a Faustian bargain awaits you within these pages!Example: Q. "What do you call a guy who makes pipe bombs in his basement?" A. Lefty... Magic. Power! Wouldn't it be great? No one told you be careful what you wish for? This book is a sort of telephone directory to the infernal realms. It's a dictionary of code words for inter-dimensional diplomatic missions which seek to prevent, resolve, and triumph in spiritual and temporal war. It includes a few of the easier to reach infernal entities and explains whom you might contact and how. More importantly, it ...

Dookie needs to win his stool school back from Al Capoop's gang. Brownie is trying to get rich on baby poop. Will these dung beetles help one another profit or perish? Dookie is a typical hungry young dung beetle who spends his day ordering poop from delivery services and attending stool school, where he is the star student and the teacher's pet bug. So when Dookie forgets to lock the gates, Al Capoop and his gang transform the school into a poop casino, and Dookie is to blame. Now all the bugs are hating on the little beetle. Brownie is about to make a fortune on baby poop—dung beetle ...

Dookie the Dung Beetle just wanted a simple meal at McDumps, but fate had other plans! When he and his friend Pierre, a timid praying mantis, get captured by the local bully and thrown into a bizarre bug circus, things quickly go from bad to worse. Now, instead of enjoying his favorite fast poop, Dookie finds himself showing off his poop-tasting skills to a crowd of amazed kids. But there’s more at stake than just Dookie’s pride—Pierre is in serious danger of losing his head to a hungry female mantis! With big cousin Brownie and their pal Turdy hatching a daring rescue plan, the ...

John has been training the mythical mathematical creatures known as actuaries for nearly 20 years. Join John as he tries to help recalcitrant student actuaries pass their professional exams armed with nothing but a copy of the actuarial tables and a sense of humor. Experience his Basil Fawlty-like antics as he strives to maximize the likelihood of socially awkward actuaries being able to survive in the “normal” world.

The Russian humor of the 21st century is quite different from the middle of the 20th. Gone are the bread lines, the Communist party, and one-room dwellings in a communal house. No one is sent to the Gulag for making a joke. Even for jokes about Putin, even when they compare him to a Czar. So the Russian people’s humor adapts. It has become more philosophical on the one hand or moved into the family and business arenas on the other. The jokers can be rich but are mostly poor. They can be of average intelligence but are mostly wise. They may have enemies but rise above the hatred. They are ...

Arkady Averchenko - brilliant writer of humorous stories and novels, which have stood the test of time. His works have enjoyed enormous popularity in pre-revolutionary Russia, and after the exile - among the Russian diaspora. His stories are really funny, subtle and clever - a rare combination for a comedian. And they are written in excellent literary style.

What's a "dealbreaker"? Some quirk, trait, habit, etc. in a potential mate that's so irksome that you just walk away from the relationship. For example, maybe: She constantly talks about her ex. He’s a major Trekkie. She doesn’t shave her legs. He kisses his mother on the lips. Read these and other dealbreaker scenarios and decide where you would draw the line (although it's usually more fun to quiz your friends and see what would be a dealbreaker for them).