Comedy

Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide range of approaches and examining the relationship...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683966678Author Ernie KovacsFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Here is the vibrant, colorful, high-stepping story of tap -- the first comprehensive, fully documented history of a uniquely American art form, exploring all aspects of the intricate musical and social exchange that evolved from Afro-Irish percussive...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566080750Author Edward J NevraumontFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 399g

Airing from 1982 to 1993, Cheers was both critically acclaimed and one of the most popular television shows of all time, earning over 100 Emmy nominations and securing 28 wins, including four for best comedy series. The show followed a group of Boston,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995655447Author Laura BarnardFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Laura BarnardPublisher Laura BarnardSeries One Month Til I Do

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982625743Author Will HinesFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint Pretty Great PublishingPublisher Pretty Great PublishingWeight(grams) 812gDimensions(mm)...

Everybody cheats and now you can too! This hilarious satirical guide to getting ahead the old-fashioned way looks at how everyone in our society - from our politicians to our sports legends - cheats and how you can get a piece of that action. Jeff...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250115645Author Kathy GriffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 147mm * 20mm

This book is the first to address in a serious way the impact and meaning of the music of "Weird Al" Yankovic. Though everyone knows his name, Yankovic is often dismissed as a novelty. His music builds on a rich American tradition of parody song, with...

A couture of the risque evolved on a bridge of fashion from Paris nightclubs to Las Vegas casinos. A one-time writer for sexy magazines and on style, the author, with contributions from many experts on topics from Paris to feathers and sequins explores...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916260699Author HornFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 210g

Performing Live Comedy is for anyone who has ever thought about getting up onstage and being funny or for those who have already started. It offers a breakdown of the process of live comedy and provides a basic toolbox for the student and aspirant...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306825385Author Doug StanhopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Da Capo Press IncPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 143mm *...

Unparalleled insights from some of the world's foremost practitioners of clowning.The Origins/Influences/Technique/Philosophy structure allows direct comparisons between varied figures.An opening history of clowning puts the interviews and their findings...

Funny, lively and unpredictable, stand-up comedy is above all a medium to be enjoyed. Popular as a good night out and packing the TV schedules, stand-up permeates British society and culture. Ubiquitous though it is, we are generally reluctant to...

Truly the voice of a generation, George Carlin gave the world some of the most hysterical and iconic comedy routines of the last fifty years. From the "Seven Dirty Words" to "A Place for My Stuff," he perfected the art of making audiences double over...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812987287Author Judd ApatowFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm)...

Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciates and analyzes the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond theories of the joke, of the comic, and of comedy in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781468004847Author Rob DurhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Alright guys? It's me, Arron. Or as some people call me, 'that guy with the phone, the skinny jeans and the really fat head on Facebook'.In a world that seems to be freefalling without a parachute towards utter chaos, I'm here to remind you that when...

Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. Although the origins of...

Clowns' slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform. This innovative book, focussing on contemporary practice in the USA and Europe over the last 50 years, investigates the nature...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088000779Author Kristine OhkuboFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692518144Author Trace CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Electric Whirligig PressPublisher Electric Whirligig PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497408401Author Rob NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780911182Author Steve SingletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint DB PublishingPublisher DB Publishing

Lowly office clerk Jim, has been press-ganged into a clandestine organisation of assassins, who control the population by secretly culling them in a variety of bizarrely ridiculous ways. If you thought your day job was bad, just wait until you see...

What can comedy tell us about the politics of a nation? In this book, James Brassett builds on his prize-winning research to demonstrate how British comedy can provide intimate and vital understandings of the everyday politics of globalization in...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478131922Author Campbell CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914366154Author Pedro Amandoriz RamnaraceFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Maple PublishersPublisher Maple PublishersSeries Bigfoot vs Zombies

Based on her experiences as a stripper in a city she calls Laurelton-a southeastern city renowned for its strip clubs-anthropologist Katherine Frank provides a fascinating insider's account of the personal and cultural fantasies motivating male...

In a work of scholarship both erudite and funny, Jeremy Dauber traces the origins of Jewish comedy and its development from biblical times to the age of Twitter. Organising his book thematically into what he calls the seven strands of Jewish comedy...

A trenchant examination of an iconic American figure that explores the cultural and psychological roots of his comic genius Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy...

Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is "reason gone mad." For Walter Benjamin, laughter was "the most revolutionary emotion." In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780634046551Author Martin CharninPage Count 16Imprint Hal Leonard CorporationPublisher Hal Leonard Corporation

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798858272144Author Izzy JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries Night BookWeight(grams)...

'The course of true love never did run smooth' - so says Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an appropriate sexual partner have been a theatrical staple...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141671Author Andrew MoskosFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.