Jacky Ha-Ha: My Life Is a Joke is book 2 in the Jacky Ha-Ha sequence. Three comic novels follow performer and class clown Jacky Hart. This route includes the prose stories and excludes graphic-novel adaptations. It follows Jacky Ha-Ha and should be read after that volume. Readers new to the series should begin with Jacky Ha-Ha and follow the numbered publication order, which preserves the characters’ continuing development and the story’s intended progression.