15 Top Black Comedians in America

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  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    • ASIN: 0399588191
    • ISBN: 0399588191
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Ne... [Read More]

  • Whoopi Goldberg: Comedian and Movie Star (African-American Biographies)

    • ASIN: 0766012050
    • ISBN: 0766012050
    • Brand: Brand: Enslow Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Enslow Pub Inc

    Examines the life and career of the versatile actress and comedian who overcame a drug addiction and became the first black female Academy Award winner since 1939.

  • The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

    • ASIN: B00RM4IB30
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio

    In the best-selling tradition of Sloan Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?, here is a collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool. "My name is 'J' and I'm awkward--and black. Someone once to... [Read More]

  • I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

    • ASIN: 1501155571
    • ISBN: 9781501155574
    • Brand: 37 Ink
    • Manufacturer: 37 Ink

    New York Times bestselling author, superstar comedian, and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have a “hilarious but also heartfelt” (Elle) memoir on survival, success, and the importance... [Read More]

  • Black Comedians on Black Comedy: How African-Americans Taught Us to Laugh

    • UPC: 073999496178
    • ASIN: 1557836809
    • ISBN: 9781557836809
    • Brand: Brand: Applause Books
    • Manufacturer: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

    (Applause Books). For almost four hundred years, black Americans have been entertaining the masses through humor. Here is the only up to date book to examine this genre. This book traces the history and evolution through the 121 interviews conducted with some of the top African-American comedians in the world. Fables and myths are clarified, facts ... [Read More]

  • He Loved Me Through The Pain 2

    • ASIN: B074PCHT5L
    • Manufacturer: Talehia Presents

    Kenji has just received some very life changing news that will affect her health. While still reeling from the news she just received, her mother walks in her room claiming to be her legal guardian once again. What does this mean for Kenji? Will she have to deal with her mother and her different levels of abuse while dealing with her health issues?... [Read More]

  • Sugar Plum Ballerinas, Book One Plum Fantastic (1)

    • ASIN: 0786852607
    • ISBN: 0786852607
    • Brand: Goldberg, Whoopi/ Cato, Nancy/ Roos, Maryn (ILT)
    • Manufacturer: Jump At The Sun

    Alexandrea Petrakova Johnson does not want to be a beautiful ballerina, and she does not want to leave her friends in Apple Creek.  Unfortunately, that doesn't stop her ballet-crazy mother from moving them to Harlem, or from enrolling Al at the Nutcracker School of Ballet.  Life is hard when you’re the new ballerina on the block, and it... [Read More]

  • The Last Black Unicorn

    • ASIN: B06ZZLYVCG
    • Manufacturer: Gallery Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An inspiring story that manages to be painful, honest, shocking, bawdy and hilarious.” —The New York Times Book Review From stand-up comedian, actress, and breakout star of Girls Trip, Tiffany Haddish, comes The Last Black Unicorn, a sidesplitting, hysterical, edgy, and unflinching collection of (extremely) perso... [Read More]

  • Bill Cosby: Entertainer (Black Americans of Achievement)

    • ASIN: 0791011216
    • ISBN: 0791011216
    • Manufacturer: Chelsea House Pub

    Examines the life and show business career of Bill Cosby

  • Chris Rock (Black Americans of Achievement)

    • ASIN: 079105277X
    • ISBN: 079105277X
    • Brand: Brand: Chelsea House Pub (L)
    • Manufacturer: Chelsea House Pub

    A biography of the popular comedian, known for his stand-up routines and for his role on the late-night television program, "Saturday Night Live."

  • Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture [4 volumes]

    • ASIN: 031335796X
    • ISBN: 031335796X
    • Manufacturer: Greenwood

    This four-volume encyclopedia contains compelling and comprehensive information on African American popular culture that will be valuable to high school students and undergraduates, college instructors, researchers, and general readers.• Contains writings from 100 contributing authors, all identified in a separate listing • Includes a chronolog... [Read More]

  • You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

    • ASIN: 0143129201
    • ISBN: 0143129201
    • Brand: Plume Books
    • Manufacturer: Plume

    A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • “A must-read...Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you.”—Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad CityA hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from comedy superstar and 2 Dope Que... [Read More]

  • We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays

    • ASIN: 1101912197
    • ISBN: 1101912197
    • Brand: VINTAGE
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is

    • ASIN: 0743428226
    • ISBN: 0743428226
    • Brand: MTV Books
    • Manufacturer: MTV Books

    Bernie Mac -- the star of Fox's The Bernie Mac Show, winner of the prestigious Peabody Award -- is more popular than ever. The Chicago-bred performer and royal king of the Original Kings of Comedy has won over countless fans of cutting comedy and family humor with an edgy show that tells it like it is but never loses heart. No surprise, Mac has ear... [Read More]

  • Whoopi Goldberg: Entertainer (Black Americans of Achievement)

    • ASIN: 079102153X
    • ISBN: 079102153X
    • Brand: Brand: Chelsea House Pub (T)
    • Manufacturer: Chelsea House Pub

    A biography of the comedian and actress who won an Academy Award for her role in the movie "Ghost"

  • F*ck Your Diet: And Other Things My Thighs Tell Me

    • ASIN: 1982108614
    • ISBN: 1982108614
    • Brand: Gallery Books
    • Manufacturer: Gallery Books

    Fans of Issa Rae and Phoebe Robinson will love this collection of laugh-out-loud funny and insightful essays that explore race, feminism, pop culture, and how society reinforces the message that we are nothing without the perfect body. By the time Chloé Hilliard was 12, she wore a size 12—both shoe and dress—and stood over six feet tall. Fitti... [Read More]

  • Furiously Funny: Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock

    • ASIN: 0813054362
    • ISBN: 0813054362
    • Manufacturer: University Press of Florida

    A combustible mix of fury and radicalism, pathos and pain, wit and love--Terrence Tucker calls it "comic rage," and he shows how it has been used by African American artists to aggressively critique America’s racial divide.In Furiously Funny, Tucker finds that comic rage developed from black oral tradition and first shows up in literature by Geor... [Read More]

  • I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts

    • ASIN: 1401309550
    • ISBN: 1401309550
    • Manufacturer: Hyperion

    Within these pages are the musings, the revelations, the ruminations, and the reflections of the incomparable Larry Wilmore. Here, collected for the first time, all in one place, are his Black Thoughts. From why black weathermen make him feel happy (or sad) and why brothas don't see UFOs to his search for Black Jesus or his quest to replace "Africa... [Read More]

  • I Am the New Black

    • ASIN: 0385527772
    • ISBN: 0385527772
    • Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau

    The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian. Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose ... [Read More]

  • Chris Rock (African-American Heroes)

    • ASIN: 0766028941
    • ISBN: 0766028941
    • Brand: Brand: Enslow Elementary
    • Manufacturer: Enslow Elementary

    Provides a look at this well-known comedian through a review of his stand-up act, movie roles, and the television show based on his life, enhanced with colorful photos and illustrations.

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