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[2023]
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Daniel Radcliffe is "Weird" Al Yankovic in the unexaggerated true story about the greatest musician of our time. From a conventional upbringing where playing the accordion was a sin, Al rebelled and made his dream of changing the words to world-renowned songs come true. An instant success and sex symbol, Al lives an excessive lifestyle and pursues an infamous romance that nearly destroys him.
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Dunlop Fantasia has a passion for marketing, excellent ideas, hovercrafts and avoiding rehab. A dark, complicated family upbringing sets him on course for early divorce, a blunder with his father's mistress, making TV shows, the heartbreaking death of a manservant, pursuit of celebrity endorsements and winning respect for his growing advertising empire. Follow his satirical exploration of wealth, self-help advice, business success, gritty optimism...
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A baby book with a grown-up twist.
Since babies don't understand a word being read to them, why not give their weary parents a break with some laugh therapy and commiseration? In this clever incarnation of a baby book of new words, the art is baby oriented, while the text is grown-up hilarious: "This is a house. It's a lot like the one we had to remortgage to pay for your daycare." Of course, as a baby book, it has to end sweetly: "These are mountains....
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Become a moist meat master with this giggle-inducing (and actually delicious) cookbook packed, until bursting, with 50 grilling favorites you can fork with. Stop jerkin' it in private, it's time to get off the couch and start sharing your meat with everyone. This Kama Sutra of cookbooks is overstuffed with the important BBQ techniques you need to know to keep your partygoers begging for more. Learn everything from how to maintain that low-and-slow...
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Once upon a time Fairy Tales were wild and thrilling. Then, the Great Appropriator, riding his steed of blandness, tore them from their dark, mysterious homes and transplanted them to his bright, sterile studio where he bathed them in Technicolor, painted big eyes on their faces, and made them sing sappy songs. No longer did Cinderella's sisters have their eyes plucked out; no longer was Snow White's stepmother forced to dance in heated iron until...
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Are you worried sick? If not, maybe you should be. Because a pair of drawstring sweatpants could bring about your most embarrassing moment. And, a toothpick in your sandwich can be the deadliest of weapons. Including hundreds of bizarre-but-true things that can get you, this compact volume will induce nervous page flipping and make even the most snug and secure folks bona fide paranoiacs. Chilling black and white photographs document the everyday...
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Enduring the last several months of Russia's attacks on Ukraine has been a catastrophe to the Ukrainian people and their relatives in Russia. PUTIN DOWN PUTIN has been originated as a way to bring discontent and misery to President Putin for the terrible murders and destruction he has inflicted in Ukraine. This book promotes a Consumers household and clothing trade-in program to send modern products to disadvantaged countries such as Ukraine to boost...
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Sink the F**king Putt, a humor book for adults, is a Parody of the well-known Dick and Jane elementary school reading primers. Dick and Jane had become somewhat reclusive since they were the child stars of the early elementary school reading textbooks. Now they are grown up and living with Spot in the basement of Mother and Father's house. In recent times they became far more social but this led to some complications. This book is the zany story...
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During the latter part of the 20th century a writer/producer named Larry David co-created a fabulously successful comedy television series by the name of It's All About Nothing (Seinfeld) and later starred in his own series, It's All About Me (Curb Your Enthusiasm). They were tremendous hits and made Larry into a mega-millionaire and true comedy icon.
I adore that Larry David. I watched him during his pre-icon days on the Catch a Rising Star stage...
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Required reading from great poets of our time. Drew Barrymore: "Upon Pondering Breasts." Tom Cruise: "An Exegesis on Psychiatry." Ann Coulter: "My Kind of Fun." And Trump and Sheen and Snooki, John Boehner and Michelle Bachman, Miley and Ke$ha. Hugo Chavez. Even a Zen haiku by Emmitt Smith:
I think it's his self-
confidence in himself that
makes him confident.
With their great gift for curating the inane public utterances of celebrities,...
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"Greetings, Dear Homsaps" is a highly satirical look at the conditions on planet Earth in the years prior to, during, and just after TBC, or The Big Change.
Climate variations bring many disasters but also some fortuitous changes, proving how adaptable the species Homo Sapiens is.
The Galactic Federation of Lightworkers is heavily invested in a beneficent future for Earth. They see clearly how badly the planet's being run by a corrupt ruling elite...
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For everyone looking to find a little extra magic in a life with little to celebrate, Happy Cruelty Day! is here. Beginning on January 1, this book features 365 new holidays, each accompanied by a strange, dark and humorous short story explaining the day you woke up in and how to celebrate it. These 365 daily doses of delight, perversion, and nonsense include "Hire Someone Attractive To Pretend To Love You Day," "Hang on to Your Wide-Eyed Innocence...
14) Biker Smarts
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The book is a compilation of humorous short statements, light-hearted "insults", funny tirades, and silly, bi-partisan, outlandish non-offensive political bantering that that captures fun times and memorializes many years of memories while hanging out with my biker friends at biker bars and biker events. It is a light-hearted book intended to be fun reading for a very diverse audience who just want something fun, funny and mindless to read without...
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Someday, Maybe is an inventive and inspiring picture book that imagines the exciting jobs, discoveries, and innovations that children dream of for their futures.
With self-driving cars and commercial launches to space, the future has arrived! And so have the jobs of the future, from intergalactic rock bands with riffing robots to doctors with X-ray glasses.
Children have always dreamed of what they will grow up to become, and with Someday, Maybe...
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The jOYs of Live by comedy author Michelle Hoppe is a look into the ups and downs of raising a family while attempting to become an author. Take a peek into the family life of the Hoppe clan and discover how Michelle turned oys into jOYs…or at least delightfully funny stories. "My life was a sort of series of random disasters." Claire Tomalin I was blessed with the ability to view life through rose tinted glasses. This, along with a twisted sense...
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New York Times best-selling author Leland Gregory is one of Andrews McMeel Publishing's most successful noncartoon humorists. Silly, shocking, weird, hilariously funny-and outrageously true-the short anecdotes inside his anthologies of human stupidity are culled from print, online, and broadcast media from all over the world. Inside Stupid Ancient History, Gregory chronicles Greek philosophers, Roman conquerors, and historic mythconceptions, including:
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Un caballero pide el tocho más pesado (literalmente) que aflija las estanterías, otro necesita adquirir cincuenta y dos metros de lomos más o menos vistosos y un tercero quiere leer la edición débil de cierta obra. Una dama sospecha que las novelas de Dickens fueron escritas por su hermana Charlene, otra busca libros de color verde y una tercera pregunta por relatos donde Robin Hood no robe a los ricos. Demencias como éstas (e incluso más dementes)...
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The president of the United States has a giant red button on his desk. If he ever chose to push this button, it would send the world into chaos. This button is for emergencies only and is designed to break the internet.
How do I know this button exists? Please, everyone knows it exists.
In The Canadian Nights, this infamous button is pressed while the Canadian prime minister is live streaming a hockey game. Without hockey to vent his pent-up...
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