Ho, Lauren
Summary: A career-ending injury destroys track star Agnes Chan's hopes of a college scholarship, putting her on a journey through the underbelly of Malaysian stand-up comedy, and directly into the path of her archnemesis, the ridiculously wealthy and disgustingly handsome Royce Taslim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024
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Summary: Sixteen-year-old Izzy, has stumbled across her dream of doing stand-up comedy, but hiding it from family and friends is causing her many untruths to quickly unravel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENLevine, Laura
Summary: Agreeing to write jokes for Dorcas, a struggling stand-up comic, Jaine Austen discovers that murder is the punchline when Dorcas's rival, a heckler named Vic, is strangled with one of her props--a pair of pantyhose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2007
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Summary: "When falling in love is the punchline... Farley Jones is a loud, chaotic, and hilariously clever standup comedian on the way to stardom. The only thing she loves more than the rush of telling jokes in front of a revved-up audience is her hot older manager Meyer, though he doesn't have a clue. Keeping her feelings hidden from him is agony (a tragedy, even--in lieu of flowers, please send...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "Presley Fry is not amused. She's been an assistant at the Late Night Show for way too long, she's adopted a "business casual" approach to dating to save herself from the embarrassment of seeking genuine connection, and she's content to allow her gregarious roommate, Isabelle, to orchestrate her entire social life. And yet, Presley is absolutely enamored with her job and the world of stand-up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2024
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Summary: "No one steps up to life's banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, "Grief, please!" Yet as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. But every buffet line has a dessert section, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It's good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2014