His book, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks, debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2010, and his second book Not Taco Bell Material also reached New York Times bestseller status and received widespread acclaim for its cutting social commentary and humor.

The term " comic book " arose because the first comic books reprinted humor comic strips.

White :" Being the owner of dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor.

" Like the movie, Kahn's book has humor.

She had at most a ready command of broadly conceived melodrama, humor, and pathos, and of these popular sentiments she compounded her book.

Mark Stephen Evanier ( born March 2, 1952 ) is an American comic book and television writer, particularly known for his humor work.

In 1994, he wrote a humor book called Cheap Advice.

Breton coined the term for his book Anthology of Black Humor ( Anthologie de l ' humour noir ), in which he credited Jonathan Swift as the originator of black humor and gallows humor, and included excerpts from 45 other writers.

It contained informative non-fiction pieces, humor, interviews, pranks, recipes ( such as green slime cake ), and a comic book section in the center featuring original comics by leading underground cartoonists as well as strips about popular Nicktoons.

The Joy of Work ( 1998 ) by Scott Adams is a two-part book, the first offering recommendations as to how office workers can find happiness at their cubicle desks and the second sharing Adams ' formula for creating humor, based on his experience penning the Dilbert comic strip.

The contrast between that quiet book and our noisy, buzzing lives seemed ripe for exploration and humor.

The work is a non-fiction baseball book that combines elements of humor, anecdotal storytelling, odd lists and historical trivia.

* Dick Gregory's Bible Tales, with Commentary, a book of Bible-based humor.

Long-distance truckers, automotive travelers and rally racers have occasionally resorted to cooking on accessible sections of the vehicle engine ; the book Manifold Destiny, though written to a certain extent as a humor book, is considered the authoritative reference on the subject.

* Family Guy: Stewie's Guide to World Domination, a 2005 humor book about the TV show Family Guy written by producer Steve Callaghan

Also in 1984, Rivers published a best-selling humor book, The Life and Hard Times of Heidi Abramowitz, a mock memoir of her brassy, loose comedy character.

Though its official publication date is 1939, references in newspaper humor columns are made to his manuscript of a book without an " e " years earlier.

* Jane Teal ( Form 1 ) Jane is a shy and kind girl with a wicked sense of humor ( Although she does not show this until the end of the book )

The book and score were greatly praised as well ; John Chapman of the Daily News declared, " The book is a work of easy and delightful humor.

is also the title of a 1972 humor book by Sam Love, which is the likely origin of the word.

Gregg was known for a sense of humor, reflected in a small hardback book he published, titled All I learned about politics, by Hugh Gregg.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

Isaac Asimov, whose specialties included both science fiction and humor and who was a self-described " punster ", wrote a short story called " Shah Guido G .", referring to the story's Atlantean ruler.

Her performance was called " memorable ... funny and poignant in turns ", and she earned a Tony Award. Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Post wrote: " nothing I have ever seen her do prepared me for the loveliness, humor, gift for joyous characterization, and sheer lovableness of her portrayal of Nellie Forbush ....

In recent years, Berg's Lighter Side strips have been rewritten for Mad with inappropriately " un-Berg-like " humor by long time Mad writer Dick DeBartolo and others ; this irregular feature is called " The Darker Side of the Lighter Side.

Raggett of Allmusic called the album a " last entertaining blast of wigginess from one of the few truly independent artists in late 20th century pop music, with humor, skill, and style all still intact "; with the Magic Band " turning out more choppy rhythms, unexpected guitar lines, and outré arrangements, Captain Beefheart lets everything run wild as always, with successful results ".

" In The Literary History of the United States, George F. Whicher called Uncle Tom's Cabin " Sunday-school fiction ", full of " broadly conceived melodrama, humor, and pathos.

The Living Desert received some criticism for bringing unsubtle humor to its scenes of desert life – Bosley Crowther of The New York Times called Disney to task for adding jokey musical effects to several of the film ’ s scenes, including hoedown music for a sequence involving a scorpion battle.

In its review of the film, Time wrote that McDaniel was one of the points of relief in an otherwise " grim study ," saying, " Hattie McDaniel, whose bubbling, blaring good humor more than redeems the roaring bad taste of a Harlem number called Ice Cold Katie.

The festival gradually turned into a program of films called Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation, an underground movement for adult humor and subject matter.

Jay Cocks of Time called the film " visually bounteous ", with " bright intervals of self-deprecatory humor that lighten the occasional pomposity of the material.

He began working for two school papers, a humor magazine called the Jester and the Columbia Review.

A humor website called Bert Is Evil hosted digitally manipulated images and satiric articles as " evidence " of Bert being evil.

In 1999, Hwang starred in a short film by Greg Pak called Asian Pride Porn, which combined humor and serious social commentary to parody the Asian fetish and the prevalence of Asian fetish pornography.

The New York Times, called Pynchon " a young writer of staggering promise " lauding his " vigorous and imaginative style ", " robust humor " and " tremendous reservoir of information ".

Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it a " sprawling, rowdy, vital film laced with both outrageous absurdist dark humor and unspeakable pain, suffering and injustice ".

The Los Angeles Times called Brisco " gratifying nonsense ", and praised Campbell and the supporting cast for supplying humor without " going over the top ".

" Jon Bonné at MSNBC called the episode " a perfect example of the first season ’ s bizarre and fruitful balance between edgy humor and softly-drawn neuroses " and stated that " it was this combination that made Groening ’ s shorts for the Ullman show so compelling, and ultimately what made it possible for The Simpsons to break the molds of network television.

There is a Finnish comic strip called " Väinämöisen paluu " ( The Return of Väinämöinen ) by Petri Hiltunen, where Väinämöinen returns from thousand-year exile to modern Finland to comment on the modern lifestyle with humor.

The Goode Family has been called a conservative show, and it has been suggested by the conservative site Newsbusters that the show's negative reviews were a consequence of liberal institutions having a poor sense of humor.

These were usually unrehearsed, and often displayed Cooper's wry or morbid humor: " My story for you next week is called ' A Night to Forget '.

The multimedia, physical theater-oriented group called Ink Boat in San Francisco incorporates humor into their work.

As a private joke, Collier wrote a decidedly cool four-page review of His Monkey Wife, describing it as an attempt " to combine the qualities of the thriller with those of what might be called the decorative novel ," and concluding with the following appraisal of the talents of its author: " From the classical standpoint his consciousness is too crammed for harmony, too neurasthenic for proportion, and his humor is too hysterical, too greedy, and too crude.

He wrote the book Confessions of a Couch Potato about his weight loss and diabetes, and co-wrote and directed a video called Diabetes for Guys, an attempt to educate about diabetes management through humor.

" Paula Nechak of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called the film " simply another in a long line of utterly unnecessary remakes that, having nothing new to say, clutch at crassness and dumbness ," while Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said that while " the screenplay [...] makes the most of Thornton's dry, skewed humor, [...] nothing happens here that would distinguish this film from other sports movies.