NYT - Humor | Overton High

1) Talking as fast as I can: from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, (and everything in between)

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Graham, Lauren

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#1 on the Humor list for 2017-01-15.

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"This book contains some stories from my life: the awkward growing-up years, the confusing dating years, the fulfilling work years, and what it was like to be asked to play one of my favorite characters again. Also included: tales of living on a houseboat, meeting guys at awards shows, and that time I was asked to be a butt model. A hint: all three made me seasick. -- Lauren Graham" --

2) Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood

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Noah, Trevor

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#2 on the Humor list for 2017-01-15.

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"Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison . . . 'Born a Crime' is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story...

3) The Daily show (the book): an oral history as told by Jon Stewart, the correspondents, staff and guests

Author

Smith, Chris

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#3 on the Humor list for 2017-01-15.

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For almost 17 years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political satire, and opinionated news coverage. It launched the careers of some of today's most significant comedians, highlighted the hypocrisies of the powerful, and garnered 23 Emmys. Now, for the first time, the people behind the show's seminal moments come together to share their memories of one of America's most groundbreaking shows.--...

4) The girl with the lower back tattoo

Author

Schumer, Amy

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#4 on the Humor list for 2017-01-15.

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Amy Schumer, Emmy Award-winning comedian, actress, writer, and star, mines her past for stories about her teenage years, her family, relationship, and sex, and shares the experiences that have shaped who she is--a woman with the courage to bare her soul and stand up for what she believes in, all while making us laugh. Ranging from the raucous to the romantic, the heartfelt to the harrowing, this highly entertaining and universally appealing collection...

5) Scrappy little nobody

Author

Kendrick, Anna

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#5 on the Humor list for 2017-01-15.

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"A collection of whimsical autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Up in the Air recounts memorable milestones from her New England upbringing to the blockbuster films that have made her one of Hollywood's most popular actresses,"--Baker & Taylor.

6) Superficial: more adventures from the Andy Cohen diaries

Author

Cohen, Andy

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#6 on the Humor list for 2017-01-15.

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"The star-studded and sidesplitting follow up to The Andy Cohen Diaries! The megapopular host of Watch What Happens: Live and executive producer of The Real Housewives franchise is back, better than ever, and telling stories that will keep his publicist up at night. Since the publication of his last book, Andy has toured the country with his sidekick Anderson Cooper, hit the radio waves with his own Sirius station, Radio Andy, appeared on Real Time...

7) Wishful drinking

Author

Fisher, Carrie

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#7 on the Humor list for 2017-01-15.

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Finally, after four hit novels, Carrie Fisher comes clean with the crazy truth that is her life in her first-ever memoir. In this book, adapted from her one-woman stage show, Fisher reveals what it was really like to grow up a product of "Hollywood inbreeding," come of age on the set of a little movie called Star Wars, and become a cultural icon and bestselling action figure at the age of nineteen. The child of Hollywood royalty--Debbie Reynolds and...

8) Go the fuck to sleep

Author

Mansbach, Adam

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#8 on the Humor list for 2017-01-15.

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"[A] bedtime book for parents who live in the real world ... profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar, and unspoken, tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night"--P. [4] of cover.