Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
By: Mike Reiss
3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In celebration of The Simpsons thirtieth anniversary, the show’s longest-serving writer and produce…
Want to Read $ 3.99"There were three great comedians in my formative years—Bill Cosby, Bill Murray, and Richard Pryor—and they wrecked comedy for a generation. How? By never saying anything funny. You can quote a Steve Martin joke, or a Rodney Dangerfield line, but Pryor, Cosby, and Murray? The things they said were funny only when they said them. In Cosby’s case, it didn’t even need to be sentences: “The thing of the thing puts the milk in the toast, and ha, ha, ha!"-Mike Reiss, Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
"There were three great comedians in my formative years—Bill Cosby, Bill Murray, and Richard Pryor—and they wrecked comedy for a generation. How? By never saying anything funny. You can quote a Steve Martin joke, or a Rodney Dangerfield line, but Pryor, Cosby, and Murray? The things they said were funny only when they said them. In Cosby’s case, it didn’t even need to be sentences: “The thing of the thing puts the milk in the toast, and ha, ha, ha!"-Mike Reiss, Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
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By: John Freeman Gill
3.66
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Hilarious and poignant, The Gargoyle Hunters is a love letter to a vanishing city, and a deeply emo… read more
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2. Top of the Rock: Inside the Rise and Fall of Must See TV
By: T.R. Pearson , Warren Littlefield
3.66
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
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3. The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy
By: Bill Carter
4.05
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
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4. The Jaws Log
By: Peter Benchley , Carl Gottlieb
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
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5. Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
4.29
Format: None pages,
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6. I Am Spock
By: Leonard Nimoy
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
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7. The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno & the Network Battle for the Night
By: Bill Carter
3.50
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The basis of an HBO cable-television movie special, the behind-the-scenes story of the ratings batt… read more
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8. The Spirit, Vol. 1
By: None , J. Bone , Darwyn Cooke
3.79
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
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9. The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
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4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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4.24
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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4.04
Format: 431 pages, Audio CD
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By: None
4.39
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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3.96
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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By: Blake J. Harris
3.84
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4.75
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4.04
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19. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
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4.25
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4.06
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23. Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America
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3.75
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4.47
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26. Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies from a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons
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3.91
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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4.12
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30. Warped Factors: A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe
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3.83
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