Download or read book Playboy Laughs written by Patty Farmer and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following her success with Playboy Swings, Patty Farmer looks at Playboy’s relationship with comedians and cartoonists in her new book Playboy Laughs. Playboy Laughs invites readers onto the sets of the organization’s groundbreaking TV shows, Playboy Penthouse and Playboy After Dark. These popular variety series brought top-tier comedians, impressionists, and monologists—as well as the finest musicians—into people’s homes each week. Readers will learn how before he ever dreamed of conquering the magazine publishing world—and along the way establish a worldwide brand—Hugh Hefner harbored aspirations of making his mark in the world as a cartoonist. Playboy Laughs delves into the darker aspects of the time as well, tackling the ways Playboy and its comedy stars helped break down social and racial barriers as well as sexual ones. Known for her devotion to meticulous research and clear, honest storytelling, Farmer has gained the full cooperation of the Playboy organization—and Hugh Hefner himself—making this not only an entertaining read but a trustworthy history of an under-appreciated aspect of American comic culture.

Download or read book Belly Laughs written by Jenny McCarthy and published by Hardie Grant Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 2100 Laughs for All Occasions written by Robert Orben and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by a top comedy writer, a rib-tickling collection of sharp, topical one-liners on every subject under the sun, alphabetically arranged by category for easy use.

Download or read book The Playboy s Guide to the Fake Fianc e written by Piper Marlowe and published by Piper Marlowe Books. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remember me?" I wipe the sleep out of my eyes. Do I remember this woman pounding at my door in the middle of the night? Vaguely, and not in the Biblical way. I recall the roller skates and pig tails of my best friend's younger sister. This woman in front of me is...well...a woman. She wants me to pretend I'm her fiancé at her grandmother's birthday party. In Florida. A road trip is the perfect excuse to miss the meeting where my father will tell me it's time to take over the family company. That's how all six feet of me wound up stuffed into a subcompact next to the nuttiest, most predictably unpredictable, charming, funny, deliciously sexy woman I've ever avoided my obligations with. She's got me managing snacks, sitting in a Cracker Barrel rocking chair, and sharing a cheap hotel room. But falling for her means I'll have to stick to my commitments, because I think I just may love her enough to tie myself down. Now I have to make her believe it before we get home to New York. ----- Check out all the books in the How to Marry a Billionaire series: Easton: The Billionaire's Guide to the Marriage Deal Dylan: The Playboy's Guide to the Fake Fiancee Max: The Alphahole's Guide to Marrying Your Enemy

Download or read book The Playboy s Plain Jane written by Cara Colter and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The playboy Good-looking and confident, sports hero Dylan McKinnon simply has that indefinable thing that makes him irresistible to the opposite sex. His plain Jane Florist Katie Pritchard knows all about Dylan's effect on women—he's her best customer! And the wary divorcée is captivated by his charm, in spite of herself. A perfect partnership? They seem an unlikely couple. They are. But Katie realizes there's more to this playboy than meets the eye.…

Download or read book A NIGHT WITH THE SOCIETY PLAYBOY written by Ally Blake and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ava has returned home for her brother's wedding after being away for eight years; there she encounters her brother's best friend, Caleb?the same man who took her virginity at the high school prom and then proceeded to go to the Caribbean with another girl the very next day. No doubt the bonds trader still lives in the lap of luxury, galavanting with gorgeous women every day. In her anger, she fails to notice the predator's hunger in Caleb's eyes when he sees how beautiful she has grown.

Download or read book Playboy s Reward written by Gina Azzi and published by Three Cities Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was supposed to be one fake date… When sexy-as-sin Harper Henderson launches profanities into the night sky from the balcony below mine, I’m forced to intervene. I may be a professional hockey player with a playboy reputation, but I’m also a good guy. Charming and affable with unrivaled cheekbones and a lack of serious commitments (save for hockey), I make an impressive plus-one. Volunteering to be Harper’s date to her dreaded ten-year high school reunion is easy. Pretending not to fall for her when our innocent kisses turn passionate is a little more challenging. But when Harper returns the fake date favor and accompanies me to my parents’ anniversary party, everything changes. She garners my dad’s respect and effortlessly mingles with my childhood friends. She eases the familial pressure I drown under and makes me crave things I used to laugh off. Tangling up with Harper was supposed to be a fun way to pass the summer. So, why does it feel like she’s the real prize? The elusive, fleeting kind of real I’ve avoided for years? And how can I prove that this playboy wants a different kind of reward? One that sounds a lot like commitment…

Download or read book The Comics Journal Library written by Gary Groth and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comics Journal Library series is the most comprehensive series of lavishly illustrated interviews conducted with cartoonists ever published. To celebrate our republication of the legendary EC line, we proudly present the first of a two-volume set of interviews with the artists and writers (and publisher!) who made EC great. Included in the first volume: career-spanning conversations with EC legends Will Elder, John Severin, Harvey Kurtzman, and Al Feldstein, as well as short interviews with EC short-timers Frank Frazetta and Joe Kubert. Also: EC Publisher William Gaines on his infamous Senate subcommittee testimony, and probing conversations between Silver Age cartoonist Gil Kane and Harvey Kurtzman, as well as contemporary alternative cartoonist Sam Henderson and MAD great Al Jaffee. Part of what made EC the best publisher in the history of mainstream comics was some of the most beautiful drawing ever published in comic books, and every interview is profusely illustrated by pertinent examples of the work under discussion.

Download or read book 2500 Jokes to Start Em Laughing written by Robert Orben and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no better, faster, or more effective way to reach out and grab an audience’s attention than the adroit use of humor. An apt, well-timed joke can soothe the hostile, focus the uninterested, and the spur on the enthusiastic. In this latest collection from Robert Orben, master of the one-liner and fountain of humor for the great TV and stand-up comics, are gathered over 2500 short, relevant, and sharp laugh-getters that can easily be added to speeches, lectures, presentations, or casual conversation. Arranged into several hundred categories for ease in selection, the subject matter is topical—ranging from acupuncture and air pollution to women’s liberation and X-rated movies. Most of the jokes are one-liners that move with a snap and a sizzle that anecdotes and lengthy stories lack. Here you will find openings and closings for speeches, plus random and specific comment invaluable to anyone who has ever been called upon to “say a few words.” A marvelous tool for speakers, writers, and performers, Mr. Orben’s newest book will also provide hours of laugh-filled reading for everyone.

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Download or read book The Playboy s I Do Deal written by Tara Pammi and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A billionaire’s Caribbean getaway just got a lot more interesting in this sizzling marriage of convenience story by Tara Pammi! A convenient offer… From the stowaway on his yacht! Dev Kohli’s superyacht is Clare Roberts’s perfect hideout. A family betrayal has her running from a forced marriage. Trying to ignore the heat still blazing between her and Dev from their last encounter, Clare prepares to bargain with the billionaire… Dev knows the PR expert can restore his company’s tarnished reputation. But agreeing to hide her in paradise—just the two of them—brings an intimacy he can’t escape. And as the threat to Clare increases, so does Dev’s need to protect her with something he never thought he’d offer—his ring! From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all the books in the Signed, Sealed…Seduced miniseries: Book 1: Ways to Ruin a Royal Reputation by Dani Collins Book 2: Cinderella’s Night in Venice by Clare Connelly Book 3: The Playboy’s “I Do” Deal by Tara Pammi

Download or read book written by Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us, the Library of Arabic Literature brings readers an acknowledged masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose. Penned by the Egyptian journalist Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī, this exceptional title was first introduced in serialized form in his family’s pioneering newspaper Miṣbāḥ al-Sharq (Light of the East), on which this edition is based, and later published in book form in 1907. Widely hailed for its erudition and its mordant wit, What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us was embraced by Egypt’s burgeoning reading public and soon became required reading for generations of Egyptian school students. Bridging classical genres and the emerging tradition of modern Arabic fiction, What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us is divided into two parts, the second of which was only added to the text with the fourth edition of 1927. Sarcastic in tone and critical in outlook, the book relates the excursions of its narrator ʿĪsā ibn Hishām and his companion, the Pasha, through a rapidly Westernized Cairo at the height of British occupation, providing vivid commentary of a society negotiating—however imperfectly—the clash of imported cultural values and traditional norms of conduct, law, and education. The “Second Journey” takes the narrator to Paris to visit the Exposition Universelle of 1900, where al-Muwayliḥī casts the same relentlessly critical eye on European society, modernity, and the role of Western imperialism as it ripples across the globe. Paving the way for the modern Arabic novel, What ʿĪsā ibn Hishām Told Us is invaluable both for its sociological insight into colonial Egypt and its pioneering role in Arabic literary history. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.

Download or read book What s Ibn Hish m Told Us written by Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "masterpiece of early twentieth-century Arabic prose, penned by the Egyptian journalist Muòhammad al-Muwayliòhåi, ... was first introduced in serialized form in his family's pioneering newspaper ... and later published in book form in 1907. Widely hailed for its erudition and mordant wit, [it] was embraced by Egypt's burgeoning reading public and soon became required reading for generations of school students. Bridging classical genres and modern Arabic fiction, [it's] divided into two parts. Sarcastic in tone and critical in outlook, the first part of the book relates the excursions of its narrator ... and his companion ... through a rapidly westernizing Cairo and provides vivid commentary on a society negotiating--however imperfectly--the clash between traditional norms and imported cultural values. The second half takes the narrator to Paris to visit the Exposition Universelle of 1900, where al-Muwayliòhåi casts a critical eye on European society, modernity, and the role of Western imperialism as it ripples across the globe.

Download or read book The Playboy Interview II written by G. Barry Golson and published by Perigee Trade. This book was released on 1983 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Himself written by Jess Kidd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""A highly unusual tale set in a highly unusual Irish village full of dark secrets

Download or read book The Playboy s Proposal written by Ashlee Mallory and published by Entangled: Bliss. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Benny Sorensen has had it up to here with her party-throwing playboy neighbor. She’s declaring war. She doesn't care how gorgeous or charming he is, he's going down. That is until he proposes something she's not sure she can say no to... Wealthy ad man Henry Ellison lives an uncomplicated life that revolves around work, women, and partying. In that order. Until Benny storms into his life. To placate his attractive but hotheaded neighbor, Henry offers to help her land a date with the man of her dreams. Only as Henry makes her over and coaches her on the fine art of flirting, he realizes that the idea of this woman in any other man’s arms but his own is unacceptable. But Benny's a forever kind of girl and forever might just be the one commitment he can't make. Each book in the Sorensen Family series is a standalone, full-length story that can be enjoyed out of order. Series Order: Book #1 Her Backup Boyfriend Book #2 Her Accidental Husband Book #3 The Playboy's Proposal Book #4 Her Surprise Engagement

Download or read book The Playboy s Proposition written by Angie Daniels and published by Kimani Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's only one weekend… Sheyna Simmons hates to lose. Unfortunately, so does her sexy, domineering boss. She and Jace Beaumont have been competing with each other since grammar school, but ever since she showed up in a skimpy maid's outfit to pay off her latest bet, she's noticed Jace can't take his eyes off her. Good thing she'd never fall for a playboy.… But when she gets in a jam at a bachelorette auction, it's Jace who agrees to pay $50,000 for a forty-eight-hour getaway with Sheyna in Vegas. And he has every intention of collecting his prize—even if getting Sheyna in his bed means he'll never want her to leave.…