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It’s National Book Lovers Day, So Buy/Pre-Order New Books from Norm MacDonald, Reductress, Tony Millionaire, Will Hines and More

There’s nothing quite like a random day like National Book Lovers Day that’s set up to celebrates books that allows us to recommend to you some great comedy book titles that have been either recently released or will be hitting bookshelves (both physical and digital) very soon.

So, without further delay, get your observance of this holiday in with buying or pre-ordering the following:

–Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm MacDonald (out September 20th)

–How To Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All-And Then Some! by Reductress (out Oct. 25th)

–You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein

–How To Be The Greatest Improviser on Earth by Will Hines

–The Bob’s Burgers Burger Book: Real Recipes for Joke Burgers by Loren Bouchard and the Writers of Bob’s Burgers; Recipes by Cole Bowden

–Dave Hill Doesn’t Liver Here Anymore by Dave Hill

–Drinky Crow Drinks Again by Tony Millionaire

–Sober Stick Figure: A Memoir by Amber Tozer

–Winning Isn’t Everything: Why I Am Running For President Again… And Why I Will Lose by Connor Ratliff

10 or So Things You Should Be Excited About in Comedy From Last Week 6/12

It’s pretty simple. Lots of great, important stuff happened last week in comedy. Like the title says, here are 10 (or so) of those things.

–Chris Gethard wanting to be Kelly Ripa’s sidekick

–John Oliver topping Oprah with nearly $15 million debt forgiveness giveaway

–Trailer for Bassem Youssef’s Democracy Handbook

–Second trailer for HBO’s Vice Principals

–This stand-up set from Brodie Reed

–Danny Jelinek and Chris Sartinsky’s “Mulchtown”

–The Lucas Brothers returning to The Tonight Show

–Comedy Central putting every Key & Peele sketch online

–Angie Tribeca is back for season 2 at TBS, Casual is back for season 2 at Hulu, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser returns to Comedy Central, Ladylike premieres at MTV

–Comedy Central’s next roast will be of Rob Lowe

–Amber Tozer’s memoir Sober Stick Figure

Amber Tozer Tells the Story of Her Recovery from Alcoholism via Stick Figures in “Sober Stick Figure”

June 11, 2016

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The illustration of humans via stick figures is subtly powerful. It’s something kids resort to as many of them can’t draw that well, but it still communicates messages and points of a view in a way that almost seems universal.

Comedian/writer/ Amber Tozer utliizes this to a wonderful degree in her memoir Sober Stick Figure that chronicles her harrowing road into alcoholism and eventually to recovery. The bleakness of such a journey gets juxtaposed next to stick figure drawings throughout the whole book that delightfully illustrate how ridiculous all of these very true events really are. It’s the comic relief that keeps on giving .

Sober Stick Figure is available in hardcover now from Running Press.