These books give us a record of our times via the moment’s best comic minds.
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Comedy is often reactive, historically and in practice. Humor helps us comment on the world around us, make fun of that which needs to be made fun of, and process an increasingly absurd world that was actually always nonsense. In that regard, comedy as a genre has always been ephemeral, but that’s where comedy books come in.
That’s all pretty pretentious, but then, aren’t books on the whole a bit much? All high and mighty with their printed words on paper, bound between two thicker pieces of paper? Here then is a record of our times, via the best comic minds of our current moment. These are the best comedy books of 2023 — nonfiction, fiction, memoir, instructional, and anything else that makes us laugh.
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