The Funny Thing Is
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.70 (943 Votes) |
Asin | : | B0000YSMNS |
Format Type | : | |
Number of Pages | : | 573 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-06-29 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Then I call a cab to get back home. The laid-back, observational comedienne's stream-of-conscience musings gain additional zest from her wry and adroit delivery. ("My favorite exercise is walking a block and a half to the corner store to buy fudge. On the other hand, take a good look at a package of light bulbs. There's never a need to overdo anything.") Her smart and funny routines point out absurdities in everyday life. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly Degeneres continues her year-long domination of all media (following a cross-country stand-up tour, an HBO special, a show-stealing turn in Finding Nemo and the successful launch of her daily talk show in September) with this new humor collection, winningly preserved on audio. . Thin, thin, thin cardboard that's open on both ends.") Whether offering tips to cover social embarrassments or grousing about parallel parking ("What better way to do something you're already a little leery about doing than by doi
Not one to rest on her laurels, the witty star of stage and screen has since dedicated her life to writing a hilarious new book. That book is this book. After years of painstaking, round-the-clock research, surviving on a mere twenty minutes of sleep a night, and collaborating with lexicographers, plumbers, and mathematicians, DeGeneres has crafted a book that is both easy to use and very funny. Ellen DeGeneres published her first book of comic essays, the #1 bestselling "My Pointand I Do Have One," way back in 1996. Ultimately she selected English, as it's her mother tongue, but translations into Hindi and Pig Latin are already in the works. - All twenty-six letters of the alphabet.Sure to make you laugh, "The Funny Thing Is"is an indispensable reference for anyone who knows how to read or wants to fool people into thin
DeGeneres has won an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, and a People's Choice Award for her work as a writer and actress on her television series Ellen, and received Emmy nominations as host of the 39th Annual Grammy Awards, as an executive producer of HBO's If These Walls Could Talk 2, and as star and executive producer of her critically acclaimed one-woman HBO special The Beginning. DeGeneres made history when her on-screen perso
Not for me Well I don't know why I didn't read a bio before I sat and read this book but I thought it was going to be more memoir and true stories of how Ellen came up in the world. That was my mistake. This small book is funny if you like nonsensical scenarios and running jokes, but like I s. Loved It! Andrea A. I loved this. Ellen is an awesome storyteller with funny and witty stories. You can picture Ellen delivering all of these stories in her monlogue in her show. I found myself laughing inside. Not a bad book for 1.99. Get this and feel good.. "Too many overused puns for my liking" according to Stephanie Goodman. I love Ellen as a person but this book was full of way to many overly used puns. I can't even begin to describe how hard this book was to read. It was not even about much. I love autobiographies, in fact they are some of the only books I actually read. But this book was not good to