Resultados para "Mark Taler" en Comedia y humor

Adam had a fine life. He had all the food he wanted, a fine garden to live in, and miles and miles of peace and quiet. Until one day, a woman entered his life. And amongst her other garrulous qualities, she says that his beautiful garden doesn't really look like a garden at all. She thinks it looks more like a park.

In this collection of personal essays, Mark Elswick offers humorous episodes about being a man and father. Whether it’s his daughter sending him to the store to buy those...well, things that transforms him into "Padman"; his realization that at 42, he is slowly turning into an old man; or his reaction to his middle-school-aged daughter dating a "man" two years older than her, listeners - males and females alike - will find themselves cracking smiles when they aren’t busy laughing out loud.

What really lurks under your bed? Would you like to know about the madness of clowns - or the helpless cries of the Doughboy as he’s stuffed into the oven? Perhaps you fear being trapped in an elevator...for a rather long period of time...If this sounds like your kind of journey, let Don Broyles be your guide in Doughboy: And Other Strange Tales.

A wild bull on the field, a fly ball caught by a train conductor, a pitcher taking the mound barefoot—Minor League Baseball has been played across the country in cities large and small for more than a century, and there are thousands of entertaining and improbable stories to tell from it. Join...

You know him from the hit A&E show Duck Dynasty—now you can enjoy Uncle Si’s tall tales, crazy exploits, and quirky one-liners in one raucous collection! “These hands are so fast, I can get your wallet before you know it. In a minute, you’ll be standing there buck naked and won’t...

Search for the People of the Temporary Tattoo. Examine the tortured mind of the Mad Stock Boy. Thrill to the exploits of the Hugging Detective. Cower in fear of the Grateful Man. These adventures and more await you in Giant Banana Over Texas: Darkly Humorous Tales, a collection of 31 short stories, perfect for fans of absurd comedy. Monty Python meets Douglas Adams meets Salvador Dali.

This collection of fourteen reimagined Grimm's fairy tales from award-winning author Mark Russell offers a biting new perspective while proving the classics never go out of style. In the two hundred years since Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm first published their collection of fairy tales, things...

Satire, Humor and Irony in some cases have been regarded as the most effective source to understand a society, the oldest form of social study. Contents: The Cop and the Anthem by O. Henry; The Ransom of Red Chief by O. Henry; What Stumped the Blue Jays by Mark Twain; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain; The Toys of Peace by Saki (H. H. Munro); The Artful Hussar by Johann Peter Hebel; From The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe; The Golden Honeymoon by Ring Lardner; When I Was a Witch by Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Micromegas: A Philosophical History by Voltaire.

Can’t find the perfect Irish gift? Don’t know what to give a cat lover? The Cats of Ireland is full of cat adventures, fun facts, and cat stories galore. My name is Seamus Mullarkey, and over the past two years I’ve been collecting fun facts and tantalizing tidbits all about The Cats of Ireland—now available in a fun collection—that's even tastier than a bowl full of cream!

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of War by Roald Dahl, read by Dan Stevens, Cillian Murphy, Sophie Okonedo, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Stephen Mangan. In war, are we at our heroic best or our cowardly worst? Featuring the autobiographical stories from Roald Dahl's time as a fighter pilot in the...

A collection of highly imaginative short pieces that speak to our times with deadly accuracy. Vintage Atwood creativity, intelligence, and humor: think Alias Grace. Margaret Atwood turns to short fiction for the first time since her 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, with nine tales of acute...