Celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ethan and Joel Coen's cinematic triumph The Big Lebowski with this ultimate guide to life from the founders of the Church of Latter-Day Dude.When you seek salvation from this stressed-out, uptight world, there's only one man to go to for guidance―the Dude. With a new introduction and updated content from the Dudeism priests and founders at the Church of Latter-Day Dude, this is the perfe...

The Dude abides . . . and you can too, with the Seven Spiritual Laws of Taking it Easy and other Lebowski-level wisdom.When you seek salvation from this stressed out, uptight world, there's only one man to go to for guidance—the Dude. At once helpful, funny and profound (like The Big Lebowski itself), this survival guide from the founders of the Church of the Latter-Day Dude and their top disciples shows how to be as Dude-like as the Dude (well, almost):

Required reading from great poets of our time. Drew Barrymore: “Upon Pondering Breasts.” Tom Cruise: “An Exegesis on Psychiatry.” Ann Coulter: “My Kind of Fun.” And Trump and Sheen and Snooki, John Boehner and Michelle Bachman, Miley and Ke$ha. Hugo Chavez. Even a Zen haiku by Emmitt Smith:I think it’s his self-confidence in himself thatmakes him confident.With their great gift for curating the inane public utterances of celebrities, politicians, and ...

The creators of the podcast The Dollop present illustrated profiles of the weird, outrageous, NSFW, and downright absurd tales from American history that you weren't taught in school.The United States of Absurdity presents short, informative, and hilarious stories of the most outlandish (but true) people, events, and more from United States history. Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds cover the weird stories you didn't learn in history clas...

It's a year after the Brexit vote. The four housemates and Timmy are on a visit to see their evil genius cousin Rupert. Rupert owns a chunk of the Jurassic Coast, part of which he has turned into an island and declared independence from Britain. Its fifteenth-century Dorset castle is a tourist attraction, but a computer hack puts the ancient fortifications into lockdown and plunges the Five into peril. Can our intrepid friends escape to the safety of mainland Europe?

Because What You Don’t Know, Will Embarrass You.What should you do if your baby shrieks at a wedding or “stealth vomits” on an innocent bystander? How can you use your child to avoid old friends you never liked in the first place? Is there a polite way to encourage cash baby-shower gifts or determine whether or not your babysitter is insane? Are there special rules for parentally impaired drivers?Eats, Poops & Leaves has the answers to all these qu...

PREPARE TO BE BEAKED BY THE MAJESTIC EAGLE OF HISTORYMost of us are familiar with the greatest hits and legendary heroes of US history. In George Washington Is Cash Money, Cory O’Brien, author of Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes,does away with the pomp and circumstance and calls America’s history what it is: one long, violent soap opera.In his signature clever, crude, and cuss-ridden style, O’Brien reminds us that:• Teddy Roosevelt stoppe...

What little-known son of a famous genius has been called:"A musical blight""A one-man plague""History's most justifiably neglected composer""The worst musician ever to trod organ pedals" "A pimple on the face of music"In this long-awaited hoax, possibly the most unimportant piece of scholarship in over two thousand years, Professor Peter Schickele has finally succeeded in ripping the veil of obscurity from the most unusual -- to put it kindly -- comp...

From the satirical masterminds behind the New York Times best-seller Goodnight Bush (more than 125,000 copies sold) comes this scathingly funny political parody of the contemporary children's classic Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!As any left-leaning parent of small children will tell you, these days it seems like the Republican Party is taking its tactical and ideological cues from a...

The Really Real Mother Goose reexamines some of the best-known nursery rhymes, pointing out the true lessons to be learned.

Random Acts of Foul-Mouthed Cruelty is the annual from the Daily Mash for 2015 featuring the funniest stories from the UK's most popular original satire website, including: 'Facebook launches schadenfreude button', 'Ashes loss happened too far away to count', 'Wolf Hall making gout fashionable' and 'Britain to be hit by entirely typical weather'.The book will comprise a collection stories from the previous 12 months, together with regular features such as Psychic ...

Once upon a time Fairy Tales were wild and thrilling. Then, the Great Appropriator, riding his steed of blandness, tore them from their dark, mysterious homes and transplanted them to his bright, sterile studio where he bathed them in Technicolor, painted big eyes on their faces, and made them sing sappy songs. No longer did Cinderella’s sisters have their eyes plucked out; no longer was Snow White’s stepmother forced to dance in heated iron until she died. No, everything was rainbows. Fai...