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I'm not sure if they're considered alt-comedy, but John Swartzwelder's books are hilarious. He's an old writer for the Simpsons. Most of the books are about a private detective named Frank Burly. I think this is the first one: https://www.amazon.com/Time-Machine-Did-John-Swartzwelder/dp/0975579908/

The new Norm Macdonald book, Based on a True Story, is also very funny.

I haven't heard very good things about Amy Poehler's book, to be honest, but I haven't read it. I've heard Tina Fey's book is great, but I haven't gotten to that one, either.

He does a great, great 5 minutes on a Comedy Death-Ray compilation CD. I used to have the MP3s but I can't find them anymore. Available on iTunes and Amazon, though!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/comedy-death-ray/id263066044

https://www.amazon.com/Comedy-Death-Explicit-Various-artists/dp/B000X71GVM

Really wish they'd add the old CDR stuff to Howl!

Man, that would be amazing. Now you've gotten my hopes up...

Edit: It looks like this is the songbook if any one else was interested.

I'm sure there are better, more expensive options out there, but these are super cheap and have been holding up well for me for the last 2-3 months. I mostly wear them while biking and mowing the lawn.

http://www.amazon.com/Sennheiser-MX-365-Earphones-White/dp/B004ZLUZGY/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Oh wow, my heart just swelled reading the lineup. I preordered Stephanie’s book the other day, I recommend y’all do the same. https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Horrible-Wonderful-Tragicomic-Memoir/dp/1492664103

Highly recommend Kulap's doc, it's free on amazon if you have Prime

It's really well done!

All three of John Hodgman's books (The Areas of My Expertise, More Information Than You Require, and That is All) are fantastic almanacs of made-up facts.

Hodgman has a really unique voice that shines through in his writing, and his signature move of CAPTALIZING SOME WORDS for emphasis will always be funny to me - for example:


>DECEMBER 16 1936, PARIS: Walter Benjamin writes his seminal essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," in which he argues that ancient works of art, such as sculpture and pottery, have an "aura" that cinema and books, which exist only as copies, do not. Benjamin went on to claim that only he could see this magical aura, and when the time was right, he would tap its energy to fuel the massive PSYCHIC RESONATOR he was developing to halt the rise of the Nazis. IT WOULD HAVE WORKED, TOO, had the Nazis not destroyed his enormous cache of urns.

I think "More" is probably the best of the three, but they all have a through-line where Hodgman charts his path from unknown Apple commercial personality to reclusive millionaire, so the whole series is worth checking out IMO.

They even wrote a manual! They definitely treat comedy as a craft.

Wigfield is one of my all time favorites. It's written by Stephen Colbert, Amy Sedaris, and Paul Dinello. There's an audio version where they all contribute the voices. It's perfect.

https://www.amazon.com/Wigfield-Can-Do-Town-That-Just/dp/078688696X

For those interested in drawing Brock the Marvel way: Here you go

Apparently it's a real product:
http://www.amazon.com/Humor-Home-Dummies-Conversation-TableTalk/dp/1572813822/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

From Humour Consultant Malcolm Kushner!

State by State with The State was a fun read

I'm seriously considering buying his book, to be honest.

This seems like a fitting place to plug the book his sister wrote about Harris, addiction and loss. Comes out February 26th and all proceeds go to The Harris Wittels Foundation which gives scholarships to seniors at Harris' former high school in Houston

Here is the mobile version of your link

An acquaintance of mine who now writes for Colbert just put out his book Santa's Husband. It is so so very good, and I think he may have snuck Frank Ocean into the wedding scene.

https://www.amazon.com/Talk-About-Passion-R-M/dp/1857936590

Does anyone know if this Earwolf Amazon referral link still works? I tried to use it but when I get to the book page, the URL hasn't changed so I'm not sure if it works.

I think the book series they were referencing was the "ValueTale" series of books. Here's a link to the Ben Franklin one.

I was totally channeling my inner Mitch when they were conflating the two, like, "No, you fools, the mouse was in the Disney movie!"

I make psychedelic art and animations that were mentioned on the Handbook pro version ep with the teaser freezer for racing in the rain (I suggested the idea)

I was a guest on an improv podcast recently

And I wrote a dr seuss style book about a fat cat in a red hat running for office

No, the mouse is in the book and it predates Disney! Ben and Me

Passionate Detachments: Technologies of Vision and Violence in American Cinema, 1967-1974.