https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/dbrl/rss/search?query=%22Comedians%20%E2%80%94%20United%20States%20%E2%80%94%20Biography.%22&searchType=subject&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeSat, 17 Oct 2026 03:13:09 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C920927https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C920927Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/920927018BKAn Optimist's Guide to A Happy Lifeenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538777909/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C924217https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C924217Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/924217018LPRINTAn Optimist's Guide to A Happy Lifeenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420531473/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=On the eve of his 100th birthday, national treasure Dick Van Dyke brings us this autobiographical collection of stories, reflections, and life advice on how he’s maintained a zest for life.
Dick Van Dyke danced his way into our hearts with iconic roles in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. Now, as he’s about to turn 100 years old, Dick is still dancing and approaching life with the twinkle in his eye that we’ve come to know and love. In 100 Rules for Living to 100, he reveals his secrets for maintaining your joie de vivre and making the most out of the life you’ve been given. 
Through stories of his pivotal childhood, moments on film sets, his expansive family, and finding love late in life, Dick reflects on both the joyful times and the challenges that shaped him. His indefatigable spirit and positive attitude will surely inspire readers to count the blessings in their own lives, persevere through the hard times, and appreciate the beauty and complexity of being human.  ]]>https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11859098https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C11859098Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/11859098980EBOOKAn Optimist's Guide to a Happy Lifeenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538777923/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C686150https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C686150Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/686150018BKStories From A South African Childhoodenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780399588174/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid
 
“Noah’s childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa’s history that must never be forgotten.”—Esquire
 
Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle.
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life.
The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.]]>https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2726272https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C2726272Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2726272980EBOOKStories from a South African Childhoodenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780399588181/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C910287https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C910287Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/910287018BKStories From A Simpler Mindenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538768464/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C812520https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C812520Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/812520018BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101906323/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C920954https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C920954Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/920954018BKOne Obsessive Fan's Journey to Find the Genius Behind the Legendenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593472552/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C926024https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C926024Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/926024018BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781510783737/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C900160https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C900160Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/900160018BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316263931/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C882144https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C882144Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/882144018BKA Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhereenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781982168568/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C873119https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C873119Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/873119018PAPERBACKEssaysenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593315699/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C831513https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C831513Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/831513018DVDenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=&upc=810044716849https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C707886https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C707886Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/707886018PAPERBACKEssaysenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101912195/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C435207https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C435207Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/435207018LPRINTLaughter and Reflectionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780739377741/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This essay collection from the “bitches gotta eat” blogger, writer on Hulu’s Shrill and HBO's And Just Like That, and “one of our country’s most fierce and foulmouthed authors” (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears.
"A sidesplitting polemicist for the most awful situations.”—The New York Times
Whether Samantha Irby is talking about how her difficult childhood has led to a problem in making “adult” budgets; explaining why she should be the new Bachelorette (she's "35-ish, but could easily pass for 60-something"); detailing a disastrous pilgrimage-slash-romantic-vacation to Nashville to scatter her estranged father's ashes; sharing awkward sexual encounters; or dispensing advice on how to navigate friendships with former drinking buddies who are now suburban moms (hang in there for the Costco loot!); she’s as deft at poking fun at the ghosts of her past self as she is at capturing powerful emotional truths.
Don't miss Samantha Irby's bestselling new book, Quietly Hostile!]]>https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3109149https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C3109149Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3109149980EBOOKEssaysenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101912201/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=This touching and hilarious memoir is 100 percent Carol Burnett—funny, irreverent, and irresistible.
Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run. Now, in This Time Together, Carol really lets her hair down and tells one funny or touching or memorable story after another.
 
In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such as Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; the background behind famous scenes, like the moment she swept down the stairs in her curtain-rod dress in the legendary “Went with the Wind” skit; and things that would happen only to Carol—the prank with Julie Andrews that went wrong in front of the First Lady; the famous Tarzan Yell that saved her during a mugging; and the time she faked a wooden leg to get served in a famous ice cream emporium.
This poignant look back allows us to cry with the actress during her sorrows, rejoice in her successes, and finally, always, to laugh.]]>https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C327695https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C327695Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/327695980EBOOKLaughter and Reflectionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307461209/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C430405https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C430405Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/430405018BKLaughter and Reflectionenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307461186/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C937892https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C937892Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/937892018BKA Messy Memoirenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668016220/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C905393https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C905393Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/905393018BKA Tell-someenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781668050521/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C908653https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C908653Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/908653018BKA Travesty of A Mockery of A Shamenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062941336/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C926029https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C926029Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/926029018BKHow Sid Caesar Reinvented American Comedyenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780805242553/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C922205https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C922205Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/922205018BKA Lifelong Obsession in Stories and Picturesenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593595930/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C924176https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C924176Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/924176018BKA Marine's Guide to Comedy and Lifeenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781538769546/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C914783https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S18C914783Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/914783018BKA One-in-a-billion Memoirenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593975022/MC.GIF&client=573-443-3161&type=xw12&oclc=