Comedy

'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.

On This Day in Comedy is not just an encyclopedia, but a celebration of comedy. In humorous prose the book takes readers through the often-neglected subcultures of comedy in America, acknowledging the inclusiveness of the performers as well as shows and...

Labor Day, 1969. Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called The National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists including Michael O'Donoghue and P...

The most important criticism of the great comedian's work, including pieces by Andrew Sarris, David Thomson, Gilbert Seldes, Alistair Cooke, Robert E. Sherwood, Stark Young, Edmund Wilson, Stanley Kauffmann, Alexander Woollcott, George Jean Nathan, Max...

"I hope I shan't meet you one day in Piccadilly with a painted face, just because you must have linen sheets" A beautiful young man is forced to choose between the love of his fiancee and the lifestyle of his male mentor. This is the infamous...

Best of the Britcoms celebrates the finest British television situation comedies to cross the Atlantic and grace American airwaves. The book, illustrated throughout with photographs of memorable scenes and casts, highlights the very best Britcoms,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646796458Author W Somerset MaughamFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Eccentrics of Comedy examines the lives and careers of twelve entertainers whose comedic styles were distinctly eccentric: Milton Berle, Ed Brendel, Bobby Clark, Phyllis Diller, the Duncan Sisters, Edward Everett Horton, Alice Howell, Franklin Pangborn,...

Lovin' ain't easy in this one-honky-tonk town, so when the bartender and the bandleader fall for the same dance hall girl, you're in for an evening of showstoppers and toe-tappers, cat fights, and love quadrangles that'll keep any joint jumpin' till way...

After a ruthless faction seizes power in Washington, Carlton Berg, a bureaucrat for the State Department, runs off with the new regime's top secret enemies list. Unfortunately for Carlton, the chase has come to an end in a police station in the Ozarks...

It seems a long way from Moliere to Ray Cooney. There are immense distances between the worlds of Aristophanes, Plautus, Georges Feydeau, Ben Travers, Joe Orton and Basil Fawlty. But as one of the oldest genres in the history of the theatre, farce...

In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the...

Bertolt Brecht scholar Dick Fig has been terminated by his university and is having an excruciating exit interview with Eunice - a decidedly droll administrator. Downs' witty play ricochets through Brechtian interludes, a pair of politically-radicalized...

Olivia and Gabe are moving into their first apartment together. They've just packed up all of their belongings and driven halfway across the country, to start a new life together in Chicago. Their moving day doesn't go exactly as planned, though, and...

With a Foreword by John Oliver, host of Last Week TonightIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of its BBC debut, a revised and updated edition of the complete oral history of Monty Python-an insightful, in-depth portrait of the brilliant and...

Comedy and Critique explores British professional stand-up comedy in the wake of the Alternative Comedy movement of the late twentieth century, seeing it as an extension of the politics of the New Left: standing up for oneself as anti-racist, feminist...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937539514Author Larry WildeFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint Executive BooksPublisher Executive BooksWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 158mm * 34mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999918095Author Christina NeuwirthFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Speculative Books LtdPublisher Speculative Books Ltd

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910299166Author Colin SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Violet Circle PublishingPublisher Violet Circle PublishingDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566082211Author Mick NapierFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Meriwether PublishingPublisher Meriwether PublishingWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993418792Author Kenneth MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Zouev PublishingPublisher Zouev PublishingWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780916260668Author MajeskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 305g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874406696Author Jack MoulthropFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Baker's PlaysPublisher Baker's PlaysWeight(grams) 45gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 1mm

Matt returns from a break at work to the company lunch room, where he meets new employee Melora. A spark ignites almost immediately, but the blossoming friendship is still subject to life's realities of age, responsibility, and commitment. Meanwhile...

Winner! 2012 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Best Production Winner! 2012 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Best World Premiere Play Yellow chronicles a year in the life of the perfect family in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Bobby Westmoreland,...

Imagine the outrageous Mae West in a Cecil B. DeMille biblical epic. Judith, a beautiful, wealthy young widow, is reviled by her own people as a gold digging adventuress. When her ancient city of Bethulia is facing brutal annihilation, Judith, wearing...

A new play from critically-acclaimed young playwrights Clara Mamet and Jack Quaid. In The Solvit Kids, Bradley Phillips and Annie Wyatt are the stars of the world-renowned "Solvit Kids" movies - a series based off the popular children's books, the author...

Brodie, a gifted linguist, learns unsettling news about the baby she carries. Unable to get comfort from her girlfriend, she finds it in the two least likely sources imaginable: the elderly speaker of a vanishing language...and a gorilla at the zoo...

Midsummer/Jersey is the hilarious high-octane re-telling of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream set on the boardwalk of a seaside town in modern-day New Jersey. The story revolves around the impending marriage of the Governor of New Jersey, the love...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573700668Author Zayd DohrnFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

The MOM crew is at it again! MOMologues2: Off to School offers a frank and funny look at the true tales of motherhood, from homework hell to multitasking mania. Four separate characters tell their individual stories, either directly to the audience in...

Bingo is a splashy, zippy, fun new musical comedy - great for theatres looking to produce a small musical with a big heart. Bingo is about a group of die-hard bingo players who stop at nothing to miss their weekly game. In between the number calling,...

Together Again spans a touching and stormy relationship through three reunions. When Chrissie and Joe meet, something both dreadful and wonderful occurs. The story begins in the apartment of an aspiring young actress. Chrissie, an acting student, is...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950354542Author Andrew HankinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scribe UsPublisher Scribe UsWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 147mm * 33mm

Jokes have always been part of African culture, but never have they been so blended with the strains and gains of the contemporary African world as today. Joke-Performance in Africa describes and analyses the diverse aesthetics, forms, and media of jokes...

Despite being roundly cited as much harder to perform than its dramatic counterpart, comic acting is traditionally seen as a performance genre that can't be taught. At best it is often described as a skill that can only be learned "on the job" through...

The book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere," usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious...

The essays in this collection explore taboo and controversial humour in traditional scripted (sitcoms and other comedy series, animated series) and non-scripted forms (stand-up comedy, factual and reality shows, and advertising) both on cable and network...

Radical Doubt investigates ethical play across a spectrum of performances, on and off the stage. In witty, recursive, personal, and propulsive prose, Mady Schutzman elaborates on the Joker System, conceived by Augusto Boal, best known for Theatre of the...