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13 Comedians We Didn't Know Also Wrote Books

January 26, 2022

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Turns out, lots and lots of big-time comedians put out a book at some point -- and if you like them, maybe you'll like their book too.

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AMY POEHLER

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM AMY POEHLER WROTE A MEMOIR CALLED SIMPLY YES PLEASE. It pretty much covers the arc of her career, and also contains a bunch of her sayings, like calling people 'sweetheart' makes most people enraged or Other people are not medicine. — Source

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NORM MACDONALD

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM NORM MACDONALD HAS A BOOK CALLED BASED ON A TRUE STORY: NOT A MEMOIR. IAMS La the Club Club.com It's, well, actually a memoir, with lines like New York City was the site of my greatest success. I made it there and then I didn't make it anywhere else. I guess Frank Sinatra isn't so smart after all. — Source

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MARC MARON

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM MARC MARON WROTE A MEMOIR CALLED ATTEMPTING NORMAL. According to the publisher, the book is Marc Maron's journey through the wilderness of his own mind, a collection of explosively, painfully, addictively funny stories. — Source

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AMY SCHUMER

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM AMY SCHUMER WROTE THE GIRL WITH THE LOWER BACK TATTOO. It's a collection of essays that, apparently, will have readers wincing with recognition, nodding their head in solidarity, and laughing out loud, according to the publisher's official description. — Source

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PATTON OSWALT

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM PATTON OSWALT IS APPARENTLY ADDICTED TO MOVIES, AND WROTE A BOOK ABOUT THAT. It's named, Silver Screen Fiend, and according to the description, it's about how silver screen celluloid became Patton's life schoolbook, informing his notions of acting, writing, comedy, and relationships. — Source

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AZIZ ANSARI

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM AZIZ ANSARI CO-AUTHORED A SURPRISINGLY SERIOUS BOOK ABOUT LOVE. Titled Modern Romance, he teamed up with sociologist Eric Klinenberg to write it -- and it's full of charts, focus group data, and the like. — Source

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JOE PERA

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JOE PERA HAS A BOOK ALL ABOUT USING YOUR BATHROOM IN AN UNUSUAL WAY. Titled A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom As an Escape, it's kind of self-explanatory, and it's apparently a functional meditative guide, according to the official description. — Source

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JULIO TORRES

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JULIO TORRES WROTE A CHILDREN'S BOOK CALLEDI I WANT TO BE A VASE. Apparently, the book is about a plunger's noble and awe-inspiring quest to pursue its dream and become a vase. — Source

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KATHY GRIFFIN

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM KATHY GRIFFIN WROTE A BOOK ALL ABOUT HER RUN-INS WITH MAJOR CELEBS. The book, titled, uh, Kathy Griffin's Celebrity Run-Ins, is full of stories like the one where she sent Lindsay Lohan a half-eaten salad or the one where she petted Celine Dion's hair. — Source

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COLIN QUINN

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM COLIN QUINN HAS A BOOK THAT'S, WELL, BASICALLY ONE GIANT ROAST OF THE USA. It's called Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the Fifty States and, apparently, calls us out on how we actually live and points out the hypocrisies inherent in what we claim to believe and what we actually do. — Source

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JERRY SEINFELD

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JUDD APATOW

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM JUDD APATOW WROTE TWO BOOKS THAT ARE COLLECTIONS OF COMEDIAN INTERVIEWS. The're called Sick in the Head and, uh, Sicker In The Head, and they're pretty much what you'd expect based on the description - it's Apatow interviewing comedians like Kevin Hart, Norman Lear, and Whitney Cummings. — Source

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РНОЕВЕ ROBINSON

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM РНОЕВЕ ROBINSON COLLECTED A BUNCH OF HER ESSAYS IN ONE BOOK. It's called Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes, and it includes material like a chapter on how she went from being a receptionist to heading her own production company. — Source

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