16 best-selling biography books like A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost

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A Very Punchable Face

By: Colin Jost

4.21

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

If there’s one trait that makes someone well suited to comedy, it’s being able to take a punch—meta…

"As Lorne says, 'Careers are made by choices."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"Every public golf course on Staten Island has a secret alter ego."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"When you go to auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.' -Paula Abdul"

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"I now hate the phrase ‘That will work.’ It’s such a mediocre goal to set for yourself."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

If you liked the biography plot in A Very Punchable Face by Colin Jost , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Yes Please

By: Amy Poehler

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of perso… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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2. Bossypants

By: Tina Fey

2.74

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl wit… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle by Rachel Dratch

3. Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle

By: Rachel Dratch

4.25

Format: None pages,

In this side-splitting memoir, the former Saturday Night Livestar recounts the hilarious adventures… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook

4. Scrappy Little Nobody

By: Anna Kendrick

4.03

Format: None pages,

A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of… read more

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5. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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6. Paris: The Memoir

By: Paris Hilton

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length: 8 hours and 22 minutes ***An Instant New York Times Bestseller*** From the… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Don’t waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party, the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Maybe if one of them had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to me. And maybe if I had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to someone else."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

Cover of Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong

7. Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

By: Ali Wong

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Ali Wong's heartfelt and hilarious letters to her daughters (the two she put to work while they wer… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"That day, my co-workers found out my secret: I'm a fucking idiot."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"I don't care how funny or beloved someone is. Take his ass down if he fucks with you."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"My dad would sometimes say things to my mom like, “Devil, get away, for I am God’s property!"

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"It made me realize that the most important part of parenting, relationships, pretty much anything is just actually being there."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

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8. The Woman in Me

By: Britney Spears

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

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9. Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

4.27

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more

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  • humor
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

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10. Romantic Comedy

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more

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  • humor
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

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11. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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12. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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13. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

By: Molly Shannon

4.13

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption b… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"But I thought, I can do whatever I want. I can be friends with whoever I want. I'm going to be friends with the freaks and the geeks and I don't have to fit into any clique. And I'm Free! And I like …"

-Molly Shannon, Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

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14. A Very Punchable Face

By: Colin Jost

4.21

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

If there’s one trait that makes someone well suited to comedy, it’s being able to take a punch—meta… read more

Similar categories in Colin Jost's A Very Punchable Face book and Colin Jost's A Very Punchable Face

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"As Lorne says, 'Careers are made by choices."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"Every public golf course on Staten Island has a secret alter ego."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"When you go to auditions and you fail to prepare, prepare to fail.' -Paula Abdul"

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

"I now hate the phrase ‘That will work.’ It’s such a mediocre goal to set for yourself."

-Colin Jost, A Very Punchable Face

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15. Yearbook

By: Seth Rogen

4.17

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Hi! I’m Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside flap (which is a gross phra… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos

16. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Tell Me Everything

By: Minka Kelly

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”—Gabrielle UnionMinka Kelly takes reade… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Rebel Rising

By: Rebel Wilson

3.91

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

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19. When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

By: Kenan Thompson

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When I Was Your Age  is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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20. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

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  • humor
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

By: Matthew Perry

3.91

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

“Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Addiction is like the Joker. It just wants to see the whole world burn."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

"I wasn't fully me yet; I was just parts of me (and not the best parts, either)."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

"My mother is beautiful; she was a star in every room she entered. And she's certainly the reason I'm funny."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

"Addiction, the big terrible thing, is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. But together, one day at a time, we can beat it down."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Paris Hilton

4.22

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3.85

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Jessica Knoll

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Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

Kathleen Hanna

4.46

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Meg Kissinger

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Sloane Crosley

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