Stanhopes is ok. Kind of.

Okay? Digging Up Mother brought a nibba to tears here

Books are for fucking nerds you retarded faggot.

Keep pulling that lawnmower cord you illiterate spic

Nigga please that's some first gen spic shit.

I work in freight like a respectable spic.

Norm Macdonald's book is fucking hilarious. Listening to the audio book was the one instance in my life where I legitimately laughed so hard I had to pull over.

I love Norm, and got through the first few chapters, the pre-Tonight Show nervousness routine was my favorite, but after I realized it went on and on and on like that, I couldn't finish it.

Does Norm read it himself?

Yes. I should have added that.

I thought Steve Martin's "Born Standing Up" was a good read.

I started to read Norm MacDonald's book "Based on a True Story" but had to return it to the library and didn't bother renewing it. It made me laugh so I'll check it out again some day. It was more fun than Steve Martin's book.

Checkout this nerd that returns his library books on time

Total nerd.

Probably a fag

I can link you the audiobook. Or do you not want to for ethical/legal reasons?

Thanks for the offer but that's okay. Maybe the library has it!

I have Carlin's when will Jesus bring the porkchops. It was pretty funny.

Mein Kampf is pretty funny.

Six million Jews can't be wrong

Yes they can

I'm reading it right now (not a joke), and i gotta say it's not bad.

He seems to have a huge problem with jews though...

it's almost as widely known for being boring as shit

Mein Kampf is not boring.

I'm like 40 pages into it, and it isn't that boring.

But i'm also reading Albert Speer's biography at the moment, and in that Speer says that Hitler had changed his mind on a lot of Mein Kampf by the late 30's, and that he regretted having written it so early.

The book I’m Dying Up Here about the comedy store in the 70’s is good. I haven’t seen the show based on it, heard it stinks, but it’s an interesting read and makes these sober cellar table comics look quite boring by comparison.

Do you think this sub is full of a bunch of book readin faggots? I’ve been trying to get through Salem’s lot for 6 years.

Too busy shooting rats at the dump?

It’s an honest living. Remember that when you’re getting hollered at in front of customers by your 18 year old manager at Panera for burning a tray of baguettes.

Carlin's memoir "Last Words" is great. Co-written by the British guy who played Spinal Tap's manager.

Stanhope’s “Digging Up Mother” is far superior to “This is Not Fame”.

Also, Artie’s “Crash and Burn” wasn’t awful.

Yeah, I've listened to the audiobook of that that three or four times. It was fucking brilliant. It's unabridged and his brother narrates it and sounds exactly like him. I also listened to his daughter's, Kelly's memoir (can't remember the name of it). The parts where she talks about herself are boring as shit, but the parts about George are great. I had no idea how wild he was in real life. He always struck me as someone who'd be quite boring and straight in real life. But I was dead wrong about that. Oh, and I read Stanhope's book too. That was, indeed, really good.

The Chris Farley Show is one of the best biographies I've ever read. I even shed a tear like a pissy eyed faggot I am.

That's a rough one, man. It shows you how great of a guy he was and how much raw talent he had, and then just rips the carpet out from under you the further you read.

“The Comedians” by Kliph Nesteroff is great, not quite what you asked for, but it is a very good history of the scumminess and criminality of stand-up.

norm macdonalds last book is great (especially the audiobook version cause he narrates it) and so is Digging up Mother by Doug Stanhope. Charlie Chaplin's autobiography is also good.

Honestly Artie first book wasn't bad. His subsequent works have been progressively subpar.

I hear "Permanently Suspended" by Anthony Cumia is getting all kinds of praise.

Woody Allen's "Getting Even", "Side Effects", and "Without Feathers"

Lenny Bruce's "How To Talk Dirty and Influence People"

Steve Martin's "Cruel Shoes"

Stan Hope!

Most of the time, a comedians book is just their stand up routine written down. Chris Rock “Rock This” and most of George Carlins books were like that.

Florentines book is just his “awful facebook posts” podcasts written down.

Arties first book “too fat to fish” was good.

I liked Norton’s books when I read them 10 years ago. It was “mean Jim” material. I couldn’t read it now knowing the phoney he’s become.

Okay? Digging Up Mother brought a nibba to tears here