Comedy Self Help

If you're anything like Kerri Pomarolli, you've read Proverbs 31 and thought, "Who is this woman? And what kind of magic unicorn, Energizer Bunny juice does she have on IV?" As a sought-after comedian living in LA, Kerri knows about impossible standards. "I don't plow, and I don't rise early. When it says she gathers her food from afar, does that mean takeout...?" Kerri is a self-proclaimed hot mess for Jesus who has learned that God never said our lives would be mess-less, but He also never intended for us to wallow forever without a way through.

Maria Bamford is a creative genius. But the process of creating is not something that “comes easily” or “is enjoyable” for her. So, over the years, she’s invented a number of helpful techniques for tricking, shaming, coercing herself into doing things. You Are (A Comedy) Special is 15-step comedic send up of a self help guide that examines Maria’s approach to stand-up in a hilarious fashion.

Could you be happier? When Hugh van Cuylenburg went to India on a teaching trip he met a joyful 10-year-old student who taught him lessons that changed his life. Since setting up The Resilience Project, Hugh has shared what he learned with over a million Australians through his show GEM, a series of comical anecdotes, moving stories and practical methods for leading a happier and more resilient life.

All I Ever Wanted Was to Be Hot is a funny, provocative retrospective on the last thirty years of Western beauty standards. From the Pussycat Dolls to Victoria’s Secret, The Girls of the Playboy Mansion to Lara Bingle, the media of the 2000s was littered with high profile examples of hotness as the highest form of social currency. Is it any wonder a girl growing up in that era might believe “good looks” were as integral to womanhood as having a pulse?

WALL STREET JOURNAL, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER Anyone—even you!—can learn how to harness the power of humor in business (and life), based on the popular class at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. Don’t miss the authors’ TED Talk, “Why great leaders take...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GLAMOUR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A hilarious new essay collection from Samantha Irby "engages readers with her characteristic combination of laugh-out-loud moments, heartfelt passages and plenty of awkward experiences.... Quietly Hostile will delight established...

📚 50 chapters of delightfully awful advice 🤣 Satirical self-help ideas you should never follow 🧘♀️ Meditation, but with chaos 🔥 Decluttering methods that involve fire (oops) 🎤 Daily affirmations shouted into the void 🍕 Emotional support snacks encouraged 💅 Toxic positivity turned up to 11 📈 Productivity tips from squirrels and drama queens 👻 Ghosting, gaslighting, and glitter-based healing 🎭 Self-improvement meets full-blown identity crisis What if self-help went completely off the rails? 1000 Ideas: Rejected Self-Help is your ultimate guide to the worst ...

From comedian, beloved podcast host, and the Betches’s favorite guy friend Jared Freid comes a brutally honest, thoughtful, and laugh-out-loud funny dating advice book that offers insight into the minds of men as well as tips, tricks, and tales to make dating feel a bit less frustrating, a tad...

Bill Hicks: 100+ unfiltered quotes on life, advertising, and revolution. Tear down the lies & choose love over fear. The definitive guide to the essential social critic. Unlock the Genius of Bill Hicks: The Unflinching Voice That Still Echoes Are you tired of the lies, the media madness, and the corporate illusions? Do you believe there's more to life than the daily grind? Then you need the unfiltered, explosive wisdom of Bill Hicks. More than a comedian, Hicks was a philosopher with a microphone, a prophet of rage, and the definitive social critic of his generation. This essential ...

Tired of books that tell you to hustle harder, wake up at 5 a.m., and manifest your best self? Good. You’ve already taken the first step toward enlightenment - by not trying so hard. Unmotivated: The Life-Changing Power of Barely Trying is the ultimate anti-self-help book for anyone who’s ever felt personally victimized by productivity culture. Written by Blaise Nothingmore, author of The Book That Changes Nothing, this hilarious parody of self-improvement gently dismantles the myth that success requires effort, enthusiasm, or even basic follow-through. Instead of promising ...

Winner of the Speakies award for the Best Self-Help Audiobook Read by the author, Suzi Ruffell, this audiobook includes exclusive behind-the-scenes conversations between Suzi and special guests, including Romesh Ranganathan, Josh Widdecombe, Tom Allen, Maisie Adams, Rosie Jones, and her mum. 'A...

In Chicago, WereWolves & WifWolves (Male & Female) Lycanthropes meet weekly to support one another and share life hacks, like making pregnancy delivery easy following the 39-month WifWolf pregnancy; WereParenting with fun videos like, "You Bit Johnny. Now He's A WereWolf Too"; Eating CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, responsibly, "It's Not A Good Meal If You Get Caught"; Flavors & Locations: Some people taste like where they're from, in Belgium, people taste like chocolate, in St. Louis, the second fattest city in the U.S., you have pigs in a blanket that taste like BBQ; the merits of human ...

What is the difference between a door, an elbow, and me? The first two have been banged, and I have not. Ba-dum-tss. That will soon change, though, because I refuse to step foot on college campus with my V-card still intact. Lainie Gray hereby swears to lose that thing once and for all before the end of summer vacation — which should be easy since I just so happen to live in one of the most popular beachy tourist destinations in the world. Sexy summer flings abound. If only my heart would stop leading me toward guys who are no good. After one breakup too many, the time has come for that ...

In a moment of mutual, playful, drunken, eroticism Tricia, a female Lycanthrope, flashes into WereWolf form and gives her longtime human lover Derek, unaware she’s “Of The Pack”, a love bite on the neck and just barely breaks the skin. In the morning, to her horror, she realizes what she has done. That night when the full moon rises, Derek will become a WereWolf, and with dread, she needs to break the news to him before it happens, exposing her secret, and teach him skills to live and survive in his new life, like eating CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, responsibly.

How to Win Over Your Mother-in-Law Without Losing Your Mind! If navigating the mother-in-law relationship feels like an Olympic event, don’t worry—you’ve just found your gold-medal playbook! In The Proper Way to Suck-Up to Your Mother-in-Law, Kim Heidler Brooks serves up the ultimate guide to keeping your family relationships smooth, stress-free, and dare we say—fun. Think winning her over is impossible? Think again! This hilarious, no-nonsense book is packed with tried-and-true strategies to charm your mother-in-law and keep the peace. Whether you're dealing with unsolicited advice...

Welcome to the self-help book for people who’ve tried all the "right" things—and somehow only made things worse. Affirmations? Failed. Gratitude journals? Turned passive-aggressive. Breathwork? You hyperventilated at Panera. If you've ever read a quote like "The universe gives you what you need" and wanted to throw your coffee mug across the room—this book is for you. In this hilariously unhinged, deliciously chaotic guide to inner dysfunction, Steven Doornbos shares 25 gloriously exaggerated “case studies” of modern-day people who followed the positivity path... straight into ...

THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR FINALIST In this timely and witty combination of So You've Been Publicly Shamed and Where'd You Go, Bernadette? a viral photo of a politician's wife's “feminine hygiene malfunction” catapults her to unwanted fame in a story that's both a satire of social...

The grandchildren of two rival Brazilian bakeries fall in love despite their families’ feud in this delicious debut rom-com perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon and Gloria Chao. Trust neither thin-bottomed frying pans nor Molinas. Lari Ramires has always known this to be true. In Olinda...

If your school’s homecoming king had a little too much in common with Henry VIII, would you survive with your head still attached? You’d think being the new girl in a tiny town would equal one very boring senior year. But if you’re me—Annie Marck, alias Cleves—and you accidentally...

Geraldo tem um mau-humor crônico, selvagem, misantropo e hilariante. É certamente a última pessoa que você convidaria para escrever um livro de autoajuda. A menos que você seja um editor visionário como o Aloísio. Enquanto se esforça para se manter são durante a escrita, Geraldo luta contra a sabedoria de coaches quânticos, os lugares-comuns das sapienciais milenares, as ideias malucas de sucesso do seu amigo e editor, a inocência um tanto poética da sua quase namorada e seu íntimo instinto de autopreservação.