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Amy Schumer Has Sold Her Book for $8-$10 Million

September 22, 2015
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(via EW)

At this point, what isn’t Amy Schumer working on?

Yep, Amy Schumer has a book coming out. 

Already this year, she’s had a hit summer R-rated comedy, hosted an awards show, won a plethora of awards herself along with accompanying critical acclaim, opened for Madonna on tour, has an HBO special coming out later this year, and is working on a screenplay with Jennifer Lawrence. 

For many folks in entertainment, that would be years worth of very accomplished work, but Schumer isn’t stopping with just all of that. She has just sold a book for a paycheck to the tune of $8-$10 million. The details of the book are scarce at this point, but it would hard to imagine it be a sort of book that wouldn’t keep her 2015 win streak going.

Simon & Schuster Publishing Nate Dern’s “In Case of Fire, Use Stairs: And Other Plans That Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time”

February 11, 2015
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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

If the title didn’t catch your eye, hopefully the idea of Funny or Die News head writer/former UCB NY Artistic Director Nate Dern getting his book published on the one and only Simon & Schuster.

Dern’s collection of essays “In Case of Fire, Use Stairs: And Other Plans That Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time” is set to come out in 2016 leaving us all plenty of time to figure alternate methods besides elevators and stairs to get from one floor to another in the event of a fire.

Hannibal Buress Has a New-ish Book Deal

September 19, 2014
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While on Conan last night, Hannibal Buress revealed the details, well, some details about a book deal that he got somewhat recently. Apparently, he needs a little inspiration to get the book off the ground.

Hopefully, whatever the book ends up being, the text message conversation between him and a past landlord ends up in it as well as the wonderfully accompanying pictures. 

Billy Eichner To Write First Book Through Grand Central Publishing

July 16, 2014
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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Billy On The Street’s Billy Eichner is set to write his first book, which, as you might expect, will deal with Hollywood and pop culture. Grand Central Publishing will release the currently untitled book.

What we’re wondering is if there will be certain pages, given Eichner’s penchant for screaming, that will just have exclamation marks.

Sara Benincasa Writing Advice Book “Let’s Grow Up Together”

February 21, 2014
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Sara Benincasa Writing Advice Book “Let’s Grow Up Together”

The wonderful Sara Benincasa is well on her way to yet another book for Harper Collins. This time it’s going to be advice on how to be adult in age where that’s becoming more and more of a chore. 

If you haven’t been following her giving advice pretty much daily on Tumblr by fielding random questions, then you should and see that Let’s Grow Up Together is probably going to be pretty great.

Aziz Ansari To Write Relationship Book, Reportedly Gets $3.5 Million Advance

August 23, 2013
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Aziz Ansari To Write Relationship Book, Reportedly Gets $3.5 Million Advance

Aziz Ansari’s stand up material has taken a really funny turn to relationships as of late that really break down the finer points of why they don’t work, ostensibly going towards giving up on them all together. This book is surely going to spring from those jokes.

However, there are no details on what the title of the book is, but we’re thinking it might be somewhere around, “WE’RE JUST NOT THAT INTO EACH OTHER”.

Jenny Johnson/@JennyJohnsonHi5 Signs Book Deal

June 27, 2013
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Jenny Johnson/@JennyJohnsonHi5 Signs Book Deal

Jenny Johnson is one of those rare people that have figured out Twitter comedy-wise on their terms and have built quite the following. As both Megan Amram and Kelly Oxford are writing/have written published books, we’re glad the trend to prove that funny things can be brought out of tweeting and thus rewarded is continuing.

Jim Gaffigan to Write a Second Book

June 26, 2013
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Jim Gaffigan to Write a Second Book

We’re excited that Jim is following up Dad Is Fat with another book. Not that we wouldn’t read it, but we hope that it’s something slightly different than something like “Dad Is Fatter". 

Megan Amram Set To Write Book “Science… For Her”

May 6, 2013
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Hopefully, you know who writer/comedian/Twitter extraordinaire Megan Amram is by now. If not, maybe you will when her book that she’s writing, “Science… For Her” comes out as she got a deal for it to get published.

Keep tabs on this one folks.

B.J. Novak Scores Seven Figure Deal for Short Stories

April 12, 2013
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B.J. Novak Scores Seven Figure Deal for Short Stories

If you were lucky enough to catch Novak at UCB here in LA recently, you just got a nice preview of what is to come from this book deal.  

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Eddie Pepitone: Live from the Bunker (Livestream)

January 21 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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The Ted Alexandro Show (YouTube Live-stream)

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Faded Comedy’s Virtual Happy Hour (Twitch Live-stream)

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Hot Cocoa Comedy (Zoom Live-stream)

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The Dave Hill Goodtime Hour (Live-stream)

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Hot & Rich (Twitch Live-stream)

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Mary Houlihan’s Painting Party (Planet Scum Live-stream)

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In The Green Zoom (YouTube Live-stream)

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The Moth National Mainstage (Live-stream)

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