Orem Library

""What are my qualifications to write this book? None really. So why should you read it? Here's why: I'm a little fat. If a thin guy were to write about a love of food and eating I'd highly recommend that you do not read his book." Bacon. McDonalds. Cinnabon. Hot Pockets. Kale. Stand-up comedian and author Jim Gaffigan has made his career rhapsodizing over the most treasured dishes of the American diet ("choking on bacon is like getting murdered by...

Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...

"Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old, from insomnia to memory loss to leaving dinners with half your meal on your shirt. In humorous chapters like "Buying the Plot" and "Nodding Off," Crystal not only catalogues his physical gripes, but offers a road map to his 77 million fellow baby boomers who are arriving at this milestone...

Memorable moments from Chris Farley's appearances on Saturday Night Live as he portrays the Chippendales dancer ; Matt Foley, motivational speaker ; host of the "Chris Farley Show" ; Todd O'Connor (Bill Swerski's Super Fans).

Vol. 1: show 1, The Red Skelton hour stars Martha Raye in an hour of laughter and music. Featured are the famous "Old West Skit" and "School Boy skit" -- show 2, features three famous skits including "Cauliflower McPlugg" and "Lord Beaver Head". Additionally, Red visits with special guest Ed Sullivan -- show 3, Highlights classic Skelton as two of his fans' favorites: "Sadie" and "Freddy the Freeloader". Edward Everett Horton guest stars. Vol. 2:...

Best of Will Ferrell characters on "Saturday Night Live" including Will's favorite scenes that were cut after dress rehearsal and never seen until now.

Part memoir, part monologue, with a dash of startling honesty, this book features biographies of legendary historical figures from which Paula Poundstone can't help digressing to tell her own story. Mining gold from the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Helen Keller, Joan of Arc, and Beethoven, among others, she dissects, observes, and comments on the successes and failures of her own life with surprising candor and spot-on comedic timing.

Will stage fright prevent a very funny bear from becoming a stand-up comedian?

Chronicles the early days of live television, a time when a wildly creative group of comedic talnts resurrected a dying art form: vaudeville. The variety show format that was the backbone of vaudeville became a television fixture for decades, and the comedians who had honed their craft for years on the vaudeville stage became television's first stars. From the late 1940s through the '50s, comedians like Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Burns & Allen, Milton...