Sock It To Me! by Jerry Austin, 128 pages

 A collection of bad jokes from 1968.

Doctor in the House by Richard Gordon, 187 pages

 "One of the tests for prospective obstetricians was provided by a life-size papier maché model of half the female trunk, into which a straw-stuffed baby was slilpped through a trapdoor. The candidate was then provided with a pair of obstetrical forceps and required to deliver it.

Benskin solemnly applied the two blades to the head and gave a strong pull. Nothing happened. He pulled harder, his feet slilpped on the polished floor, and over his head flew mother, baby, forceps and all.
The examiner picked up one blade of the forceps and handed it to him. "Now hit the father with that," he said sourly, "and you'll have killed the whole bloody family.""

Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andrews, 108 pages

 Are you a special snowflake?

Do you enjoy networking to advance your career?
Is adulthood an exciting new challenge for which you feel fully prepared?

Ugh. Please go away.

This book is for the rest of us. These comics document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, dreaming all day of getting home and back into pajamas, and wondering when, exactly, this adulthood thing begins. In other words, the horrors and awkwardnesses of young modern life.

Sarah Andersen is a young Brooklyn artist. This book is totally not autobiographical. At all.

The MAD Bathroom Companion: Turd in a Series by the Usual Gang of Idiots, 288 pages

 The MAD Bathroom Companion -- the turd in our series -- is sure to make a splash! "The Usual Gang of Idiots" has plumbed the bowels of comedy to deliver a huge load of classic material! Flush with the best short pieces from MAD Magazine, you'll flip your lid over these choice specimens! We quarantee each can be read in one sitting -- and that you'll be on the edge of your seat the whole time!

If Rednecks Had Been the Chosen People by Charlie Thompson, 149 pages

 "In the beginning, God created Alabama," from which Adam Bob and Eveleen were banished because they ate the forbidden asparagus. This book humorously outlines the Old Testament from a Southern perspective without losing the integrity of the message.

Bedtime Stories for Privileged Children: Charming Tales of wealth and entitlement for tots who were simply born better by Daniel Foxx, 128 pages

 Author and comedian Daniel Foxx presents a wonderful collection of stories especially for the little darlings of the fabulously wealthy - that can also be enjoyed by YOU, the downtrodden, pitiful, ordinary adult! Read about the everyday adventures of Rupert, Shallotte and Genevievette as they ski, holiday, and drift around Selfridges - whilst always keeping a healthy distance from the dreaded hoi polloi!Other magical adventures goes on holiday! But what is 'duty free'? And why do poor people love it so much? Cosmo goes to state school, where the teachers wear jeans and no-one can understand Latin! Lily goes with Daddy to work! And fires Kate from marketing!! BEDTIME STORIES FOR PRIVILEGED CHILDREN is the perfect Christmas gift - whether you're wintering in Aspen, summering in Tuscany, or simply want to keep the little ones quiet in the back of the Range Rover Evoque.

The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, 492 pages

 One of the most famous travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land by an American. The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's irreverent and incisive commentary on the "New Barbarians" ' encounter with the "Old World." Twain's hilarious satire is a double-edged weapon, impaling with sharp wit the chauvinist and the cosmopolitan alike. His naive Westerner is a blustering pretender to sophistication, a too-quick convert to culture. Turning the coin, the ruins of antiquity appear but a shadow of their heralded glory; the scenery of Europe and the Holy Lands dwarfs in contrast to the splendor of a Western landscape. With stunning agility, Twain unconsciously uses his travelogue - as Leslie A. Fielder points out - to search out the "archetypal differences" between Americans and Europeans - the "American identity." As Mr. Fiedler points out in his pungent Afterword, this was a quest that was to obsess Mark Twain's literary career . . . "over and over, he was to return to the themes of The Innocents Abroad . . . a classic work which, without ceasing to be amusing, marks a critical point in the development of our literature and especially in our attempt through literature to find out who we Americans are."

Housebroken: Admissions of an Untidy Life by Laurie Notaro, 270 pages

 #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurie Notaro isn’t exactly a domestic goddess—unless that means she fully embraces her genetic hoarding predisposition, sneaks peeks at her husband’s daily journal, or has made a list of the people she wants on her Apocalypse Survival team (her husband’s not on it).

Inspired by Victorian household manuals, Notaro chronicles her chronic misfortune in the domestic arts, including cooking, cleaning, and putting on Spanx while sweaty (which should technically qualify as an Olympic sport).

Housebroken is a rollicking new collection of essays showcasing her irreverent wit and inability to feel shame. From defying nature in the quest to making her own Twinkies, to begging her new neighbors not to become urban livestock keepers, to teaching her eight-year-old nephew about hobos, Notaro recounts her best efforts—and hilarious failures—in keeping a household inches away from being condemned. After all, home wasn’t built in a day.

The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club by Laurie Notaro, 225 pages

 Introducing Laurie Notaro, the leader of the Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club. Every day she fearlessly rises from bed to defeat the evil machinations of dolts, dimwits, and creepy boyfriends—and that’s before she even puts on a bra.

For the past ten years, Notaro has been entertaining Phoenix newspaper readers with her wildly amusing autobiographical exploits and unique life experiences. She writes about a world of hourly-wage jobs that require absolutely no skills, a mother who hands down judgments more forcefully than anyone seated on the Supreme Court, horrific high school reunions, and hangovers that leave her surprised that she woke up in the first place.
The misadventures of Laurie and her fellow Idiot Girls (“too cool to be in the Smart Group”) unfold in a world that everyone will recognize but no one has ever described so hilariously. She delivers the goods: life as we all know it.

Be Nice to Me.....I May Be Your Funeral Director One Day, Funeral home funnies and more by Karen Willaimson, 52 pages

 Funeral home funnies and more, this book is a refreshing and humorous look at a certain part of life--death--and reminds us not to take it so seriously.

Excuse Me While I Disappear: Tales of Midlife Mayhem by Laurie Notaro, 256 pages

 A laugh-out-loud spin on the realities, perks, opportunities, and inevitable courses of midlife. Laurie Notaro has proved everyone she didn’t end up in rehab, prison, or cremated at a tender age. She just went gray. At past fifty, every hair’s root is a symbol of knowledge (she knows how to use a landline), experience (she rode in a car with no seat belts), and superpowers (a gray-haired lady can get away with anything). Though navigating midlife is initially upsetting―the cracking noises coming from her new old body, receiving regular junk mail from mortuaries―Laurie accepts it. And then some. With unintentional abandon, she shoplifts a bag of russet potatoes. Heckles a rude driver from her beat-up Prius. And engages in epic trolling on Nextdoor.com. That, says Laurie, is the brilliance of growing older. With each passing day, you lose an equivalent amount of fear. And the #1 New York Times bestselling author has never been so fearlessly funny as she is in this empowering, candid, and enlightening memoir about living life on the other side of fifty.

More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell, 122 pages

 Customer (holding up a book): "What’s this? The Secret Garden? Well, it’s not so secret now, is it, since they bloody well wrote a book about it!'"

From "Did Harry Potter kill Hitler?" to "Can we play cricket in your bookshop?", a selection of the most ridiculous conversations from the shop floor. Bewildering, hilarious and slightly alarming, this is a book for dedicated booksellers and booklovers everywhere.

Illustrated by the Brothers McLeod, this collection includes queries and incidents from bookshops (and libraries) around the world, and even a section of Weird Things Customers Say at 'Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops Book Signings.'

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell, 188 pages

 A John Cleese Twitter question ("What is your pet peeve?"), first sparked the "Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops" blog, which grew over three years into one bookseller's collection of ridiculous conversations on the shop floor.

From "Did Beatrix Potter ever write a book about dinosaurs?" to the hunt for a paperback which could forecast the next year's weather; and from "I've forgotten my glasses, please read me the first chapter" to "Excuse me... is this book edible?", here is a book for heroic booksellers and booklovers everywhere.

This full-length collection illustrated by the Brothers McLeod also includes top "Weird Things" from bookshops around the world.

It's a World, World, World, World Mad, 192 pages

 

The Mad Sampler, 192 pages

 We give 'em the needle - and you get the point

in
The MAD Sampler
It's a collection of wit, man!
Join us now as we work over...
Television - with its serious shows that keep us in stitches, and comedy shows that don't!
Hollywood - and its big-budget movies with threadbare plots based on hackneyed yarns!
Madison Avenue - with its idiotic ads that reap plenty though they sew very little!

... and all the other abuses woven into the tapestries of today's crazy quilt world... all calculated to keep us "thimble-minded"!

Polyunsaturated Mad, 192 pages

 

Mad About Mad! by Sergio Aragones, 192 pages

 Sergio Aragonés, who has been amusing MAD fans for years with his hilarious “border-line cases”, steps out of the “margins” and into the spotlight again with another collection of panto-mind-blowing gags calculated to drive you mad about MAD!

Mad's Dave Berg Looks at Things by Dave Berg, 192 pages

 First, Dave Berg took a look at the U.S.A....

Next, Dave Berg took a look at the people...
Now, Dave Berg looks at things.
Material things!
Kid things!
Adult things!

... And if this book sells as well as the other two, Dave may be able to buy all the things he looks at!

Mad's Al Jaffee Freaks Out by Al Jaffee, 190 pages

 

Crap at My Parents' House by Joel Dovev, 208 pages

 Crap at My Parents’ House is a laugh-out-loud celebration of all the weird, odd, and unfathomably tacky stuff that our moms and dads accumulate without our knowledge or consent. Comedian Joel Dovev has compiled and commented upon the best (or would that be worst?) items submitted by folks from around the globe in a very funny—but fair—way, revealing all those dirty secrets that range from deer hoof bottle openers and plush Oscar Meyer Wienermobiles to soccer-playing Jesus ceramics and grizzly bear toilet paper holders. Whether you’re 15 or 65 and still shaking your head at your mom and dad’s decorating choices, Crap at My Parents’ House is a reason to be thankful for parents being so unintentionally hilarious.