19 Top comedy books like Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book by Scott Aukerman

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Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book

By: Scott Aukerman

4.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Scott Aukerman and the comedic geniuses who created the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast comes a boo…

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1. The Adventures of Sally

By: P.G. Wodehouse

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

When Sally Nicholas became an heiress, she had to cope her brother's wild theatrical ambitions and … read more

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  • fiction
  • humor
  • comedy
"It's just my luck,"

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally

"Few things are so pleasant as the anticipation of them..."

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally

"And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need."

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."

-P.G. Wodehouse, The Adventures of Sally

2. Hollywood Said No!: Orphaned Film Scripts, Bastard Scenes, and Abandoned Darlings from the Creators of Mr. Show

By: Brian Posehn , Bob Odenkirk , David Cross

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, creators of HBO's classic sketch comedy show Mr. Show,present to you … read more

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3. Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

By: Bob Odenkirk

3.60

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and Nob… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
"The 'better angels of our nature' may be the ones we want leading us forward, but the worser angels are the ones that we seem to want to watch onscreen."

-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

"I figured I'd work in forestry, since I like the outdoors. In fact, in high school I filled out some kind of career-planning assessment and it said just that: 'Go into the forest and don't come back."

-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

"Cads kill me. Men who go through life making wisecracks, being overtly rude, taking advantage, being self-obsessed disasters. They're just funny to me. Because of this hobbyhorse, one of my favorite …"

-Bob Odenkirk, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama

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4. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."

-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

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5. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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6. Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s

By: Gary Gulman

4.14

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth gr… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
Cover of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

7. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
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8. Harold

By: Steven Wright

3.48

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A uniquely humorous and deeply profound novel from a legendary stand-up comedian that follows the t… read more

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  • fiction
  • humor
  • comedy
"Looking at the wingless angel Harold firmly believed her shadow should be in color."

-Steven Wright, Harold

"She smelled too. Like a 22 year old girl. He tried to place that smell but he couldn't. It seemed like a mixture of skin lotion and confidence."

-Steven Wright, Harold

"In Ms Yuka's class he once wrote a poem about it called: 'Listen' The last lines were - I know you know you do it, it doesn't matter to you at all you just want to keep on talking a verbal waterfall"

-Steven Wright, Harold

"Harold thought how weird and strange it must be to be a girl. He was glad he wasn’t one because he didn’t think he would be able to do that. Or he wouldn’t want to do that. It’s probably good that yo…"

-Steven Wright, Harold

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9. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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10. Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic funnymen who ruled '80s Hollywood—Bill Murray, Steve Mart… read more

Similar categories in Nick de Semlyen's Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever book and Scott Aukerman's Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book

  • humor
  • comedy
"Sometimes you gotta say "What the fuck". If you can't say it, you can't do it."

-Nick de Semlyen, Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever

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11. Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome

By: Aparna Nancherla

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and ou… read more

Similar categories in Aparna Nancherla's Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome book and Scott Aukerman's Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book

  • humor
  • comedy
Cover of Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

12. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

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13. Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen

By: Brian Raftery

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From a veteran culture writer and modern movie expert, a celebration and analysis of the movies of … read more

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14. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

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  • humor
Cover of Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera by Jena Friedman

15. Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera

By: Jena Friedman

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award–… read more

Similar categories in Jena Friedman's Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera book and Scott Aukerman's Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book

  • humor
  • comedy
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16. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes

By: Moshe Kasher

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
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17. The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor

By: Keegan-Michael Key

3.90

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

"A boisterous debut … the authors are as funny as one would expect … this is a hoot.” ― Publishers … read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
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18. Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

By: John Hodgman

4.04

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on f… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
"There is no peace in dying."

-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

"Raccoons are beyond fear, and they are assholes."

-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

"Maine is a beautiful place that I paradoxically want to hoard to myself and share with everyone I meet."

-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

"...not everything in life is unpleasant, but most of it is, and certainly all of things that lead to real and lasting pleasure are."

-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

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19. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

By: Sam Wasson

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more

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20. Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again

By: Reggie Watts

4.02

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Comedian and musician Reggie Watts shares his story of growing up in Montana as a biracial oddball … read more

Similar categories in Reggie Watts's Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again book and Scott Aukerman's Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book

  • humor
  • comedy
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21. Joyful Recollections of Trauma

By: Paul Scheer

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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22. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

By: Dana Stevens

4.19

Format: 432 pages, ebook

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work … read more

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Cover of Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live by Dan Ahdoot

23. Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live

By: Dan Ahdoot

3.72

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man's obsession and coping mechanism, an… read more

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  • humor
Cover of Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms by John Hodgman

24. Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

By: John Hodgman

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After spending most of his twenties pursuing a career as a literary agent, John Hodgman decided to … read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
"And you are forced to say, "No. I have to get back to my family. This is the most convenient time for me to have him poisoned." And you know you are a monster after all, a sick animal that no one has…"

-John Hodgman, Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms

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25. Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture―and the Magic That Makes It Work

By: Jesse David Fox

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated Book by Vulture , Elle, Chicago Tribune, The Millions , and Lit Hub " C… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
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26. Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book

By: Scott Aukerman

4.44

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Scott Aukerman and the comedic geniuses who created the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast comes a boo… read more

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  • fiction
  • humor
  • comedy
Cover of T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People by Ian Karmel

27. T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People

By: Ian Karmel

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Comedian Ian Karmel, with help from sister Dr. Alisa Karmel, opens up about the daily humiliations … read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
"You're a raw nerve in that era of your existence. Life hurts, and that isn't unique to fat people or to any one group, really. Pretty much everyone goes through some version of young-adult malaise. T…"

-Ian Karmel, T-Shirt Swim Club: Stories from Being Fat in a World of Thin People

Cover of Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars by Kliph Nesteroff

28. Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars

By: Kliph Nesteroff

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the preeminent historian of modern comedy comes an expansive history of showbiz and the cultur… read more

Similar categories in Kliph Nesteroff's Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars book and Scott Aukerman's Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book

  • humor
  • comedy
Cover of Houses of the Unholy by Ed Brubaker

29. Houses of the Unholy

By: Ed Brubaker

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn… read more

Similar categories in Ed Brubaker's Houses of the Unholy book and Scott Aukerman's Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book

  • fiction
Cover of Someone Should Pay for Your Pain by Franz Nicolay

30. Someone Should Pay for Your Pain

By: Franz Nicolay

4.14

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

Named one of Rolling Stone's "Best Music Books of 2021." "Someone Should Pay for Your Pain" hits… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1) by Nathan Ballingrud

31. Crypt of the Moon Spider (Lunar Gothic Trilogy, #1)

By: Nathan Ballingrud

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Crypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into th… read more

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  • fiction

6 Best fiction books like Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book by Scott Aukerman

Transform Your Habits

The Adventures of Sally

P.G. Wodehouse

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Harold

Steven Wright

3.48

Transform Your Habits

Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book

Scott Aukerman

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Houses of the Unholy

Ed Brubaker

3.73

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Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Transform Your Habits

60 Songs That Explain the '90s

Rob Harvilla

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

David Zucker

4.17

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