Random House New Releases - Humor - Between May 22, 2012 and June 21, 2013.

Dear Girls Above Me by Charles McDowell

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

Dear Girls Above Me Inspired by a True Story
Written by Charles McDowell

Based on the wildly popular Twitter feed Dear Girls Above Me, a roman à clef about how thinking like a couple of girls turned one single guy into a better man.

When Charlie McDowell began sharing his open letters to his noisy upstairs neighbors—two impossibly ditzy female roommates in their mid-twenties—on Twitter, his feed quickly went viral. His followers multiplied and he got the attention of everyone from celebrities to production studios to major media outlets such as Time and Glamour. Now Dear Girls breaks out of the 140-character limit as Charlie imagines what would happen if he put the wisdom of the girls to the test.

After being unceremoniously dumped by the girl he was certain was “the one,” Charlie realized his neighbors’ conversations were not only amusing, but also offered him access to a completely uncensored woman’s perspective on the world. From the importance of effectively Facebook-stalking potential girlfriends and effortlessly pulling off pastel, to learning when in the early stages of dating is too presumptuous to bring a condom and how to turn food poisoning into a dieting advantage, the girls get Charlie into trouble, but they also get him out of it—without ever having a clue of their impact on him.

Dear Girls Above Me by Charles McDowell

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

Dear Girls Above Me Inspired by a True Story
Written by Charles McDowell

Dear Girls Above Me by Kirby Heyborne

2013-06-04T00:30:00-05:00

Dear Girls Above Me Inspired by a True Story
Written by Charles McDowell
Read by Kirby Heyborne

Garfield Hits the Big Time by Jim Davis

2013-05-21T00:30:00-05:00

Garfield Hits the Big Time His 25th Book
Written by Jim Davis

Trade Paperback, 96 pages | Ballantine Books | Humor - Cartoons; Comics & Graphic Novels; Humor - Topic - Animals | $14.00 | May 21, 2013 | 978-0-345-52589-5 (0-345-52589-2)

Garfield—Eat, Sleep, and Be Flabby!

Garfield, the world’s favorite feline, marks the 25th book in his series with this special silver volume, full of side-splitting classic comics! And after all this time, Garfield’s earned some extra sleep. But he’ll still move a muscle for meals and mayhem! Whether he’s hogging Jon’s chair or hog-tieing Odie, Garfield shows us how to grow old disgracefully!

The GARFIELD CLASSICS series collects the early years of the GARFIELD comic strip in a larger, full-color format. Garfield may have gone through a few changes, but one thing has stayed the same: his enormous appetite for food and fun. So laugh along with the classic cat, because classics are always in style.

Teaching by Gerry Dee

2013-05-14T00:30:00-05:00

Teaching It's Harder Than It Looks
Written by Gerry Dee

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Anchor Canada | Humor | $19.95 | May 14, 2013 | 978-0-385-67747-9 (0-385-67747-2)

Hilarious, cringe-inducing stories about teachers, students and parents, from CBC star of Mr. D, one of Canada's hottest comedic talents.

Gerry Dee is a rising comic star whose humour has been compared to Bill Cosby's. He spent ten years working as a teacher and survived (barely) to tell his tales. Told from the honest point-of-view of a not-so-good, often-very-bad public school teacher--the kind who teaches hungover (and lies about it), loses his students' exams (and lies about it), and stages an impromptu baseball game in the middle of history class just to kill some time, Teaching: It's Harder Than It Looks is Mr. D at his best.

This book collects Gerry's funniest anecdotes about teaching, about students and about their parents. As Gerry's ode to school life, it's sure to bring back a memory or two, whether you were the teacher's pet or the class clown. Throughout, he offers tongue-in-cheek "Teacher Tips and Tricks," uncomfortable notes to parents, awkward report cards and all manner of memorabilia of school days.

He's extremely funny, on the page as well as in person, and he's the kind of personality who will reach out beyond his own core comedy audience to a broad demographic of educators, parents and students who relate to his humour and experiences.

Earn Your MBA on the Toilet by Kasper Hauser

2013-05-07T00:30:00-05:00

Earn Your MBA on the Toilet Unleash Unlimited Power and Wealth from Your Bathroom
Written by Kasper Hauser

Hardcover, 128 pages | Ten Speed Press | Humor - Topic - Business & Professional; Humor - Form - Trivia; Humor - Parodies | $12.99 | May 7, 2013 | 978-1-60774-424-5 (1-60774-424-4)

Move over Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton--there's a new top-ranking MBA program in town! With the Kasper Hauser Continuing Education Academy, all it takes is a few minutes and a roll of bathroom tissue to earn a fully-accredited executive business degree.

For the hundreds of millions of Americans who are looking for better, more successful, and more fulfilling lives--but don't have the time and money to invest in a full-on graduate degree--comes this revolutionary new system that turns crap into gold!

With Earn Your MBA on the Toilet, the Kasper Hauser Continuing Education Academy offers readers a complete business education, on subjects ranging from Accounting to Widgets to Business Ethics to Ethical Pickles. Why spend $100,000 and two years on an MBA when you can simply read this book? Written for the busy professional, the unemployed CEO, or the motivated alcoholic, this incredible course condenses thousands of hours of business wisdom into a 72-minute crash course, chunked into 3-minute "jam sessions." After a mere 8 trips to the toilet, readers will be able to hold their own with a finance professor at a cocktail party; after 15, they will be qualified to work as a management consultant for a Bass Pro shop; and by the end they will have a certificate of completion that is definitely, literally an MBA degree on par with the big guys, basically.

Earn Your MBA on the Toilet by Kasper Hauser

2013-05-07T00:30:00-05:00

Earn Your MBA on the Toilet Unleash Unlimited Power and Wealth from Your Bathroom
Written by Kasper Hauser

eBook, 128 pages | Ten Speed Press | Humor - Topic - Business & Professional; Humor - Form - Trivia; Humor - Parodies | $9.99 | May 7, 2013 | 978-1-60774-425-2 (1-60774-425-2)

Attempting Normal by Marc Maron

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Attempting Normal
Written by Marc Maron

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

People make a mess.

Marc Maron was a parent-scarred, angst-filled, drug-dabbling, love-starved comedian who dreamed of a simple life: a wife, a home, a sitcom to call his own. But instead he woke up one day to find himself fired from his radio job, surrounded by feral cats, and emotionally and financially annihilated by a divorce from a woman he thought he loved. He tried to heal his broken heart through whatever means he could find—minor-league hoarding, Viagra addiction, accidental racial profiling, cat fancying, flying airplanes with his mind—but nothing seemed to work. It was only when he was stripped down to nothing that he found his way back.

Attempting Normal is Marc Maron’s journey through the wilderness of his own mind, a collection of explosively, painfully, addictively funny stories that add up to a moving tale of hope and hopelessness, of failing, flailing, and finding a way. From standup to television to his outrageously popular podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, Marc has always been a genuine original, a disarmingly honest, intensely smart, brutally open comic who finds wisdom in the strangest places. This is his story of the winding, potholed road from madness and obsession and failure to something like normal, the thrillingly comic journey of a sympathetic f***up who’s trying really hard to do better without making a bigger mess. Most of us will relate.

Praise for Marc Maron and WTF

“The stuff of comedy legend.”—Rolling Stone

“Marc Maron is a startlingly honest, compelling, and hilarious comedian-poet. Truly one of the greatest of all time.”—Louis C.K.

“I’ve known Marc for years and I can tell you first hand that he’s passionate, fearless, honest, self-absorbed, neurotic, and screamingly funny.”—David Cross

“Revered among his peers . . . raw and unflinchingly honest.”—Entertainment Weekly

“Devastatingly funny.”—Los Angeles Times

“For a comedy nerd, this show is nirvana.”—Judd Apatow

Attempting Normal by Marc Maron

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Attempting Normal
Written by Marc Maron

Attempting Normal by Marc Maron

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Attempting Normal
Written by Marc Maron
Read by Marc Maron

The Essential Max Brooks by Max Brooks

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

The Essential Max Brooks The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z
Written by Max Brooks

“Brooks [is] America’s most prominent maven on the living dead…Gripping reading.” —Hartford Courant

This collection, available exclusively as an ebook, brings together two New York Times bestselling titles from Max Brooks: The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, The Zombie Survival Guide is the key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. In World War Z, Brooks delivers an invaluable chronicle of the Zombie War, told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand.

Henri, le Chat Noir by William Braden

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Henri, le Chat Noir The Existential Musings of an Angst-Filled Cat
Written by William Braden

This gift book is a collection of photos and quotes from Henri, the existential cat whose ennui has captivated people all over the world. Through his series of short films and interactions with an enthusiastic online community, Henri's contemplation and disillusion with the world has struck a chord with millions of fans. Now, finally, we have a collection of Henri's musings in his own words featuring never-before-seen photos and quotes. This book is a window into the tortured soul of the world's first feline philosopher.

Henri, le Chat Noir by William Braden

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Henri, le Chat Noir The Existential Musings of an Angst-Filled Cat
Written by William Braden

Max Brooks Boxed Set by Max Brooks

2013-04-30T00:30:00-05:00

Max Brooks Boxed Set World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide
Written by Max Brooks

Just in time for the release of the blockbuster Summer movie, World War Z, this boxed set includes two New York Times bestsellers from Max Brooks: World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide. The box features line art from the graphic novel, Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks.

To My Assistant by Lydia Whitlock

2013-04-23T00:30:00-05:00

To My Assistant Things I'll Never Do to You, But Many Other Crazy Bosses Will
Written by Lydia Whitlock

From the Hollywood assistant trenches, a hilarious guide to surviving life at the bottom of the totem pole.

I will not make you sort my M&Ms by color.

I will not take off four hours in the middle of the day to go shopping and then announce upon my return that “it’s going to be a late one—we need to catch up!”

I will not request that you create and maintain my online dating profile.

Welcome to the wickedly funny world of To My Assistant, where overworked and underappreciated assistants finally get their due. We’ve all been there. You might even be there right now. Do you depend upon your college education to handle crucial business decisions such as memorizing your boss’ lunch order, trying to schedule four meetings where only one can go, and helping your boss detag Facebook photos? Or what about those awesome days when you’re instructed to “send me that thing from a week ago,” “call that guy I wanted to call,” or “book me a table at that restaurant that girl said was really good,” and are then berated when you’re not able to figure out immediately what your boss is talking about?

To My Assistant compiles everything that disgruntled and optimistic assistants everywhere promise NEVER TO DO when, one day, they have assistants of their own. From ridiculous requests and backhanded compliments to outright insults, and complete with helpful tips and tricks for Boss Wrangling—like what you can learn about your boss’s mood from his meal choices, how to navigate such professional minefields as requests for your opinion and interactions with your boss’s children and pets, and advanced translation techniques for incoherent e-mails and text messages—these pages are just what the underpaid masses need to survive (and laugh at) the daily injustices of life at the bottom of the totem pole.

To My Assistant by Lydia Whitlock

2013-04-23T00:30:00-05:00

To My Assistant Things I'll Never Do to You, But Many Other Crazy Bosses Will
Written by Lydia Whitlock

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Not Taco Bell Material by Adam Carolla

2013-04-16T00:30:00-05:00

Not Taco Bell Material
Written by Adam Carolla

Now in paperback, Adam Carolla takes us back--before Loveline and The Man Show, before the Guinness World Record-breaking podcast and the New York Times bestseller In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks--to reveal all the stories behind how he came to be the angry middle-aged man he is today.

Funnyman Adam Carolla is known for two things: hilarious rants about things that drive him crazy and personal stories about everything from his hardscrabble childhood to his slacker friends to the hypocrisy of Hollywood. He tackled rants in his first book, and now he tells his best stories, debuting some never-before-heard tales as well. Organized by the myriad "dumps" Carolla called home as a child to the flophouse apartments he rented in his twenties, up to the homes he personally renovated after achieving success in Hollywood, the anecdotes here follow Adam's journey and the hilarious pitfalls along the way.
Adam Carolla started broke and blue collar and has now been on the Hollywood scene for more than fifteen years. Yet he's still connected to the working-class guy he once was and delivers a raw and edgy, fish-out-of-water take on the world he lives in (but mostly disagrees with), telling all the stories, no matter who he offends--family, friends, or the famous.

CAUTIONARY VERSES by Hilaire Belloc

2013-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

CAUTIONARY VERSES
Written by Hilaire Belloc

Jokes Every Woman Should Know by Jennifer Worick

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

Jokes Every Woman Should Know
Written by Jennifer Worick

This pocket-sized volume contains dozens of hilarious jokes, including The One about the Sneezing Virgin, The One about the Blind Man in the Nudist Colony, The One about the Tequila Diet, The One about the Buddhist in the Pizza Parlor, plus the ten worst pick-up lines, tips for delivering jokes, quotations from famous female comedians, a section of jokes for kids, and much, much more.

Jokes Every Woman Should Know by Jennifer Worick

2013-03-26T00:30:00-05:00

Jokes Every Woman Should Know
Written by Jennifer Worick

Random House New Releases - Humor - Between May 22, 2012 and June 21, 2013.

Dear Girls Above Me by Charles McDowell

Dear Girls Above Me Inspired by a True StoryWritten by Charles McDowell

Dear Girls Above Me by Charles McDowell

Dear Girls Above Me Inspired by a True StoryWritten by Charles McDowell

Dear Girls Above Me by Kirby Heyborne

Dear Girls Above Me Inspired by a True StoryWritten by Charles McDowell Read by Kirby Heyborne

Garfield Hits the Big Time by Jim Davis

Garfield Hits the Big Time His 25th BookWritten by Jim Davis

Teaching by Gerry Dee

Teaching It's Harder Than It LooksWritten by Gerry Dee

Earn Your MBA on the Toilet by Kasper Hauser

Earn Your MBA on the Toilet Unleash Unlimited Power and Wealth from Your BathroomWritten by Kasper Hauser

Earn Your MBA on the Toilet by Kasper Hauser

Earn Your MBA on the Toilet Unleash Unlimited Power and Wealth from Your BathroomWritten by Kasper Hauser

Attempting Normal by Marc Maron

Attempting Normal Written by Marc Maron

Attempting Normal by Marc Maron

Attempting Normal Written by Marc Maron

Attempting Normal by Marc Maron

Attempting Normal Written by Marc Maron Read by Marc Maron

The Essential Max Brooks by Max Brooks

The Essential Max Brooks The Zombie Survival Guide and World War ZWritten by Max Brooks

Henri, le Chat Noir by William Braden

Henri, le Chat Noir The Existential Musings of an Angst-Filled CatWritten by William Braden

Henri, le Chat Noir by William Braden

Henri, le Chat Noir The Existential Musings of an Angst-Filled CatWritten by William Braden

Max Brooks Boxed Set by Max Brooks

Max Brooks Boxed Set World War Z, The Zombie Survival GuideWritten by Max Brooks

To My Assistant by Lydia Whitlock

To My Assistant Things I'll Never Do to You, But Many Other Crazy Bosses WillWritten by Lydia Whitlock

To My Assistant by Lydia Whitlock

To My Assistant Things I'll Never Do to You, But Many Other Crazy Bosses WillWritten by Lydia Whitlock

Not Taco Bell Material by Adam Carolla

Not Taco Bell Material Written by Adam Carolla

CAUTIONARY VERSES by Hilaire Belloc

CAUTIONARY VERSES Written by Hilaire Belloc

Jokes Every Woman Should Know by Jennifer Worick

Jokes Every Woman Should Know Written by Jennifer Worick

Jokes Every Woman Should Know by Jennifer Worick

Jokes Every Woman Should Know Written by Jennifer Worick

Dear Girls Above Me Inspired by a True Story
Written by Charles McDowell

Dear Girls Above Me Inspired by a True Story
Written by Charles McDowell

Dear Girls Above Me Inspired by a True Story
Written by Charles McDowell
Read by Kirby Heyborne

Garfield Hits the Big Time His 25th Book
Written by Jim Davis

Teaching It's Harder Than It Looks
Written by Gerry Dee

Earn Your MBA on the Toilet Unleash Unlimited Power and Wealth from Your Bathroom
Written by Kasper Hauser

Earn Your MBA on the Toilet Unleash Unlimited Power and Wealth from Your Bathroom
Written by Kasper Hauser

Attempting Normal
Written by Marc Maron

Attempting Normal
Written by Marc Maron

Attempting Normal
Written by Marc Maron
Read by Marc Maron

The Essential Max Brooks The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z
Written by Max Brooks

Henri, le Chat Noir The Existential Musings of an Angst-Filled Cat
Written by William Braden

Henri, le Chat Noir The Existential Musings of an Angst-Filled Cat
Written by William Braden

Max Brooks Boxed Set World War Z, The Zombie Survival Guide
Written by Max Brooks

To My Assistant Things I'll Never Do to You, But Many Other Crazy Bosses Will
Written by Lydia Whitlock

To My Assistant Things I'll Never Do to You, But Many Other Crazy Bosses Will
Written by Lydia Whitlock

Not Taco Bell Material
Written by Adam Carolla

CAUTIONARY VERSES
Written by Hilaire Belloc

Jokes Every Woman Should Know
Written by Jennifer Worick

Jokes Every Woman Should Know
Written by Jennifer Worick