A Strange Business (Atlantic), James Hamilton's book on the 18th- and 19th-century art world, is both a beautifully written cultural history and a compendium of scurrilously funny stories.
MyBadParent.com, Osinoff's compendium of horrifyingly funny photographic examples of highly questionable parenting, was parlayed into a coffee table book published by Penguin Group in 2012.
Available on April 6th, "You're a Horrible Person, But I Like You" is a two-hundred-and-twenty-four page "compendium ofeaturing funnyring funny celebrities (Fred Armisen, Zach Galifianakis), funny producers (Judd Apatow, Paul Feig), and people easily associable with Comedy Central (Samantha Bee, Rob Corddry, Aasif Mandvi, Sarah Silverman, et al).
Araki has had much to say about the photographer's relation to the camera - as eye, as a sort of body extension - and Phaidon's new book includes a marvellous compendium of his aphoristic, often funny and provocative thoughts.
And here's a funny detail, on top of the fact that both ExacTarget and Compendium share the same co-founder.
The rest of the debate was largely a compendium of G.O.P. punch lines, some of them definitely not funny.
Ms. Goldberg finds plenty of wanly funny inflections in Katie's febrile anxiousness, but the performance is mostly a compendium of jittery mannerisms.
Pick up a copy of "Sexually I'm More of a Switzerland," a compendium of the London Review of Books' more memorable personal ads, for your funny Valentine.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (available now) Hilarious if hit-and-miss compendium of answers to questions in a sex manual from Woody Allen's early funny period in the 70s.
