Títulos em Comédia e Humor

Na een armoedige jeugd en zonder noemenswaardige opleiding liggen de kansen voor de zesentwintigjarige Maud niet voor het oprapen. Toch heeft ze maar één doel in haar leven: zich ontworstelen aan haar milieu, waar alcoholisme en bijstandsuitkeringen de normaalste zaak van de wereld zijn. Desnoods door een rijke man aan de haak te slaan. Als verkoopster in een juwelierszaak komt ze genoeg rijke mannen tegen. Haar schoonheid blijft ook door hen niet onopgemerkt.

In Lockdown: From My Pets’ Perspective, author Jacquelyn Bishop brings to life the witty, heartwarming, and downright hilarious thoughts of Max the dog and Ziggy the cat as they navigate the strange world of quarantine.

When the Blackouts' star player Nevil Dooley wakes one morning to don a frock and 'eyeshada', his mother's idle days at the bingo hall are gone forever. Mystified and clueless, single parent Mavis takes to bush-cunning and fast footwork to unravel the mystery behind this sudden change of face. Hilarity prevails while desperation builds in the race to save Nevil from the savage consequences of his discovery in a town where a career in footy is a young black man's only escape.

Un semplice furto si trasforma in un sequestro di persona, e la persona è quella sbagliata. Tre amici che, costretti a una convivenza coatta, si rivelano incompatibili per carattere, ambizioni e sensibilità, sono accumunati dall'inclinazione a commettere errori perlopiù esilaranti. Il covo improvvisato diventa il rifugio in cui sfogare le loro nevrosi e forse ritrovare un po' di serenità sotto la guida di Pandora, vittima del rapimento e preda di frequenti sbalzi d'umore, che alterna lezioni sulle tecniche di rilassamento a predizioni del futuro e sedute d'ascolto.

According to Tatler's Little Black Book, The Honourable Guy Tillingford is Britain's twenty-ninth most eligible bachelor, after the Marquess of Granby and grime artist Tornado. With a seven-year-old daughter, Hatty, to care for, studious divorcee Alice Merrow doesn't have time for celebrity gossip. When Alice and her flamboyant boss, Desmond Kingston-Campbell, realise that everything – and everyone – at Tillingford Hall are not as they seem, their discoveries could tear the Tillingford family apart.

Kaum hat Bettina das Weihnachtschaos ihrer Familie gemeistert, steht schon die nächste Herausforderung vor der Tür: Silvester. Drei Generationen der Familie Padderborn unter einem Dach – das verspricht ein Abend voller Trubel, unvorhergesehener Wendungen und viel Gelächter. Wird Bettina es schaffen, den Jahreswechsel in ein unvergessliches Erlebnis zu verwandeln?

'It’s a Fallen World!' is a very unusual audiobook. Here you will find four flash fiction audio stories. Each story is only about seven minutes long. They are brought vividly to life with immersive, cinematic sound effects. For the full experience, please use personal listening devices. This collection is perfect for the short Uber commute, a waiting room or wherever and whenever you need a break from the everyday boring reality. This is darkly comedic satire at its best!

Fergus MacFaddle was never meant to be the spirit of the season. Gruff, stubborn, and allergic to joy, he’s spent decades enforcing laws against smiling near livestock and renaming holidays out of spite. But when an old flame returns, a goat gains political power, and a small bonnet sparks village-wide chaos, even the Grump of Christmas must reconsider what it means to belong.

In this bold reimagining of the classic Grimm’s fairy tales, five iconic heroines—Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Mother Holle, and The Goose Girl—are given the chance to reclaim their stories. While the original tales remain intact, each is followed by a sharp, witty essay from the perspective of the so-called villains. From wicked stepmothers to jealous queens, these familiar antagonists finally get to speak for themselves—adding unexpected humor, insight, and a touch of irreverence to the timeless tales.

He needs a royal redemption arc. She needs to keep her distance. The public wants a story, preferably a romantic one. I called him Ledonia's most eligible man-child in a headline. Now I'm living at his palace. After my no-holds-barred exposé on Prince Maximilien goes viral, the royal family doesn't banish me—they hire me. Apparently, the King and Queen think damage control looks like me filming an exclusive behind-the-scenes series on their charming, cocky, scandal-prone son. Prince Max isn't thrilled. In fact, he downright despises me. Which is fine. Because the feeling? Entirely mutual.

It used to be easy, walking into a bar on the prowl with his mates. The flirting game, being on the pull, sowing one’s wild oats. In his early twenties it was a game Scott Bradley knew how to play well. Then life got in the way. Now, 15 years, three relationships, and two children later, Scott is ready to head back out there to have a play at that single game once again.

On the surface Sam has everything any woman should want: successful husband, nice house, holiday home, two lovely kids, and a desirable, expensive car. Yet Sam is frustrated and unfulfilled. When her usual distractions fail her she retraces the steps of how her life turned out like it has. At breakfast Sam takes up’s her daily dose of magic mushrooms. This transforms a normal day into an enjoyable, surreal, roll around Auckland. Till she is cruelly dragged back to reality by a worrying call from her daughter’s school.

A heart warming recipe for fun. Take one old farmer, a salacious genius chef named Betty Crocker, a former CIA operative turned counterculture warrior, a mob boss in witness protection and a 14-year-old boy and girl who just want to make movies. Add a coven of clog dancing Wiccans, a corrupt corporation, and a pack of feral hogs. Mix in a cache of hyper-engineered government pot seed and bake to perfection in the Texas heat.

Despite being son to Don Allesandro Fugue, AKA Big Al, AKA The Al Mighty, AKA King of the Denver streets, Tommy Fugue has never had much interest in the family business. But when his father assigns him the “summer job” of mastering digital money laundering, Tommy figures he can list some fake projects on FunFunder, pledge them with zombie accounts, and clean a dirty $20,000 in time for college in the fall.

From fireflies and hummingbirds to alligators and sharks, this collection of 50 brief essays combines witty prose and vivid illustrations to reveal the secret lives and oddball behaviors of North American creatures both familiar and little known. In Grizzled, science journalist Jason Bittel taps into current research about the behavior of key North American mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and invertebrates, from insects to urchins.

Ominous signs portend great danger, and Regina Y-Z, a psychic, fears the worst. Furthermore, the warning signs all point to her former best-friend, Celeste Bonneville. According to the Aeon religion, Y2K will bring about the End of Days. Celeste, a leader of the Central Ohio Conclave of the Church of Aeonism, looks forward to her future life in a digital paradise, called Singularity. The most holy Master Desiderata has chosen Celeste for a special mission. If the apocalypse doesn’t happen on its own, she has instructions for how to light the fuse to get it started.

If you feel lousy about your piles of stuff and the burden that might be left behind, this book is for you! Listen to it, follow the steps, and feel confident your friends and family won’t curse you when you’re gone. This book is for everyone considering mortality and what to do about it. Easy to consider when the examples are real, the content is helpful, and there is a chuckle at every moment.

Meet Julia Flang, a twenty-something former semi-professional gamer, living with her retired uncle, and working two jobs she doesn’t like. Out of the blue, her estranged mother, a CFO for one of the world’s largest tech companies, offers her a temp job with a payday Julia can’t refuse. One sham interview later, she’s offered the job: to chaperone a man in a vegetative state—one with proprietary AI implanted in his head—from California to the East Coast.

Embrace all things Irish with these 200 interesting, important, and fun Irish words and phrases—as well as what each teaches us about the history and culture of Ireland.

Inside this book are stories about insects, piano teachers, talking birds, dead birds, ex-convicts, suicide attempts, tarot cards, and bible verses. Some of the stories happened to Korby and some of them he just made up. It doesn't really matter which are which. Up to this point in his life, he has been a professional singer-songwriter, traveling around by himself, playing songs for small audiences, selling CDs out of a suitcase.