The Book Company: New Products - Comedy

Golden Girls Forever (An Unauthorized Look Behind the Lanai)

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:17:53 +0000

New York Times bestseller

The complete, first-ever Golden Girls retrospective, packed with hundreds of exclusive interviews, behind-the-scenes and never-before-revealed stories, more than two hundred color and black-and-white photos, com..

Price: $37.50

Hilarious

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:01:18 +0000

Acclaimed portrait photographer Thom Gilbert turns his lens on iconic comedians, young and old, and captures the extraordinary facial expressions that usually go unnoticed beneath the wit and the punch lines. Each of the 150 photographs is a portrait of a comic at full comedic power, with the kind..

Price: $50.00

Clowns (In Conversation)

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:35:43 +0000

Clowns: In Conversation is a ground-breaking collection of interviews expanded in this second edition to include over 30 of the greatest clowns on earth. In discussion with clown aficionados Ezra LeBank and David Bridel, these legends of comedy reveal the origins, techniques, and philosophies t..

Price: $233.99

Funny Business (The Old-School Wedding Crashers and Knocked-Up Virgins Who Changed Comedy Forever)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:35:37 +0000

A celebration of a generation of iconic comedies—the raunchy, blockbuster “Frat Pack” films of the early 2000s—and a no-holds-barred look at their rise and fall in Hollywood, the effects of which can still be felt in the fractured media landscape of today

If you were a moviegoer in t..

Price: $32.00

The Definitive Jacques Tati

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:54:47 +0000

A tribute to Oscar-winning French filmmaker/performer Jacques Tati: Made with the support of Les Films de Mon Oncle who allowed full access to his archives and designed by M/M (Paris), this three-volume publication gathers essays, interviews, and screenplays, plus hundreds of photographs, still..

Price: $125.00

Herlarious (Celebrating Women in Comedy)

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:39:13 +0000

Long before television panels, sitcoms and stand-up stages, women were using wit to entertain, provoke and challenge. From Restoration playwrights and music hall stars to silent film pioneers, radio favorites, sitcom legends, alternative comedians and today’s viral creators, fe..

Price: $34.99

Comic Lives

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:26:14 +0000

Comic Lives examines the dynamic intersection of life narrative and comedy within the theoretical and methodological frameworks of auto/biography studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.

Price: $233.99

Saturday Night (A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:19:41 +0000

Saturday Night is the intimate history of the original Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine..

Price: $24.99

The Teenage Diaries of a Stand-Up Comedian

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:59:30 +0000

"Put very simply, the details of my life could be boiled down to 'boy dreams of being a comedian and then becomes one',so in a basic sense everything has gone according to plan. Item number one on the lifetime to-do list has been well and truly ticked off. But, of course, things are ..

Price: $25.99

Saturday Night (A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live)

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:01:12 +0000

The New 50th Anniversary Edition of Saturday Night
“It reads like a thriller, and may be the best book ever written about television.”
— Associated Press
“A chilling real-life cliffhanger.”
— Washington Post
“A..
Price: $21.99