📚 Comedy

Books with comedy on their catalogue record, first published between 1498 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject comedy in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 10,973 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The conscious lovers	Sir Richard Steele	1723	62
	Plays	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	1795	57
	The country wife	William Wycherley	1675	52
	Plays	Titus Maccius Plautus	1767	47
	Comoediae	Aristophanes	1498	41
	Born a Crime	Trevor Noah	2016	27
	The real thing	Tom Stoppard	1982	23
	A trick to catch the old one	Thomas Middleton	1608	15
	Barefoot in the park	Neil Simon	1964	13
	The Play That Goes Wrong	Henry Lewis	2013	10
	Come blow your horn	Neil Simon	1961	8
	Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe	Jane Wagner	1986	8
	The dark comedies	H. B. Charlton	1937	7
	A natural perspective	Northrop Frye	1965	6
	How to be a stand-up comic	Richard Belzer	1988	5
	Performing Live Comedy	Chris Ritchie	2012	4
	The craft of comedy writing	Sol Saks	1985	3
	Writing Comedy	John Byrne	1999	3
	Here come the clowns	Lowell Swortzell	1978	2
	The Comedy Bible	Judy Carter	2001	2
	What Are You Laughing At?	Dan O'Shannon	2012	2
	Hidden Tools of Comedy	Steve Kaplan	2013	2
	Truth in comedy	Charna Halpern	1994	1
	Mr. Mom	Carole Mortimer	1997	1
	Zen and the art of stand-up comedy	Jay Sankey	1998	1
	Comic insights	Franklyn Ajaye	2002	1
	Manusia setengah Salmon	Raditya Dika	2011	1
	The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual	Matt Walsh	2013	1
	Comedy Writing for Late-Night TV	Joe Toplyn	2014	1
	A Nation of Idiots	Daksh Tyagi	2019	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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