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- How I slept my way to the middle, secrets and stories from stage, screen, and interwebs, Kevin Pollak with Alan Goldsher ; [forewords by Penn Jillette and Billy Bob Thornton]
- Kasher in the rye, the true tale of a white boy from Oakland who became a drug addict, criminal, mental patient, and then turned 16, Moshe Kasher
- When you lie about your age, the terrorists win, reflections on looking in the mirror, Carol Leifer
- I think there's a terrorist in my soup, how to survive personal and world problems with laughter-- seriously, David Brenner
- Maeve in America, essays by a girl from somewhere else, Maeve Higgins
- And nothing but the truthiness, the rise (and further rise) of Stephen Colbert, Lisa Rogak
- I'm just a person, Tig Notaro
- How do I un-remember this?, unfortunately true stories, Danny Pellegrino
- Girl walks into a bar--, comedy calamities, dating disasters, and a midlife miracle, Rachel Dratch
- You might remember me, the life and times of Phil Hartman, Mike Thomas
- Not a genuine black man, or, How I claimed my piece of ground in the lily-white suburbs/, Brian Copeland
- God, if you're not up there, I'm f*cked, tales of stand-up, Saturday Night Live, and other mind-altering mayhem, Darrell Hammond
- Yes, you're pregnant, but what about me?, Kevin Nealon
- Buster Keaton, tempest in a flat hat, Edward McPherson
- Kathy Griffin's celebrity run-ins, my A-Z index, Kathy Griffin
- Cosby, his life and times, Mark Whitaker
- Chaplin and American culture, the evolution of a star image, Charles J. Maland
- Buster Keaton, a filmmaker's life, James Curtis
- George Burns and the hundred-year dash, Martin Gottfried
- All about me!, my remarkable life in show business, Mel Brooks
- An innocent, a broad, Ann Leary
- Dave Hill doesn't live here anymore, Dave Hill
- Thirty-nine years of short-term memory loss, Tom Davis ; [foreword by Al Franken]
- Angry optimist, the life and times of Jon Stewart, by Lisa Rogak
- Leslie F*cking Jones, Leslie Jones
- Sober stick figure, a memoir, Amber Tozer
- Gracie, a love story, George Burns
- Groucho, the life and times of Julius Henry Marx, Stefan Kanfer
- Happily Ali after, and other fairly true tales, Ali Wentworth
- Make 'em laugh, the funny business of America, Laurence Maslon ; based on the documentary film by Michael Kantor
- You can't touch my hair, and other things I still have to explain, Phoebe Robinson
- Funny man, Mel Brooks, Patrick McGilligan
- Bamboozled by Jesus, how God tricked me into the life of my dreams, Yvonne Orji
- Last girl before freeway, the life, loves, losses, and liberation of Joan Rivers, Leslie Bennetts
- Go ask Ali, half-baked advice (and free lemonade), Ali Wentworth
- I'm not a terrorist, but I've played one on TV, memoirs of a Middle Eastern funny man, Maz Jobrani
- If you could hear what I see, lessons about life, luck, and the choices we make, by Kathy Buckley with Lynette Padwa
- Robin, Dave Itzkoff
- Bob Hope, the road well-traveled, Lawrence J. Quirk
- Harold Lloyd, master comedian, Jeffrey Vance and Suzanne Lloyd ; introduction by Kevin Brownlow ; Manoah Bowman, photographic editor
- The amorous busboy of Decatur Avenue, a child of the fifties looks back, Robert Klein
- Laughing in the dark, a decade of subversive comedy, Laurie Stone
- Letterman, the last giant of late night, Jason Zinoman
- A futile and stupid gesture, how Doug Kenney and National lampoon changed comedy forever, Josh Karp
- Find me, by Rosie O'Donnell
- Missed translations, meeting the immigrant parents who raised me, Sopan Deb
- Andy Kaufman, the truth, finally, Bob Zmuda and Lynne Margulies
- Keep moving, and other tips and truths about aging, Dick Van Dyke with Todd Gold
- The Leno wit, his life and humor, by Jay Walker
- Tip it!, the world according to Maggie, Maggie Griffin