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This Day In Comedy: The Ethnic Encyclopedia of Laughter Frank Holder 9781634242622
RRP: $42.80$34.44On 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... -
The Essential Chaplin: Perspectives on the Life and Art of the Great Comedian Richard Schickel 9781566636827
$55.89The 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... -
Best of the Britcoms: From Fawlty Towers to Absolutely Fabulous Garry Berman 9780878331604
RRP: $29.23$27.36Best 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,... -
Lady Frederick: A Comedy in Three Acts W Somerset Maugham 9781646796458
RRP: $17.53$17.34Apologies 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 Anthony Slide 9780810835344
$158.22Eccentrics 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,... -
Savin' Up for Saturday Night Jeff Goode 9780573700248
$24.36Lovin' 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... -
The North Plan Jason Wells 9780573700491
$24.75After 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... -
May the Farce Be With You Roger Foss 9781849431514
$33.93It 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... -
I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era William Knoedelseder 9781586488963
RRP: $29.23$22.70In 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... -
The Exit Interview William Missouri Downs 9780573700903
$24.94Bertolt 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... -
Things My Mother Taught Me Katherine DiSavino 9780573700897
$24.94Olivia 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... -
Monty Python Speaks, Revised and Updated Edition: The Complete Oral History David Morgan 9780062866448
RRP: $29.23$24.94With 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: Stand-up Comedy and the Professional Ethos of Laughter Daniel R. Smith 9781529200157
RRP: $93.58$73.16Comedy 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... -
Great Comedians Talk about Comedy Larry Wilde 9780937539514
RRP: $68.25$47.56Apologies 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 -
Amphibian Christina Neuwirth 9781999918095
$16.15Apologies 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 -
Behind the Scenes: Improvising Long Form Mick Napier 9781566082211
RRP: $60.35$47.17Apologies 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 *... -
Honesty Optional Kenneth Muller 9780993418792
RRP: $39.00$34.30Apologies 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... -
Doubletalk: 50 Comedy Duets for Actors Majeski 9780916260668
RRP: $42.88$24.94Apologies 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 -
Jack, the Prince of Ireland Jack Moulthrop 9780874406696
$22.21Apologies 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 -
Birthday Boy Christopher Slade Newbound 9780573701092
$24.94Matt 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... -
Yellow Dell Shores 9780573700972
$24.02Winner! 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,... -
Judith of Bethulia Charles Busch 9780573700941
$24.16Imagine 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... -
The Solvit Kids Clara Mamet 9780573700873
$22.02A 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... -
Precious Little Madeleine George 9780573700842
$24.94Brodie, 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... -
Ken Ludwig's Midsummer/Jersey Ken Ludwig 9780573700767
$24.02Midsummer/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... -
Reborning Zayd Dohrn 9780573700668
$24.02Apologies 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 -
MOMologues 2: Off to School: 2 Lisa Rafferty 9780573700279
$22.02The 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: The Winning Musical Michael Heitzman 9780573700194
$24.02Bingo 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 Tom Sharkey 9780573700118
$24.94Together 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... -
Don't Applaud. Either Laugh or Don't. (at the Comedy Cellar.) Andrew Hankinson 9781950354542
RRP: $35.10$25.72Apologies 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 -
Joke-Performance in Africa: Mode, Media and Meaning Ignatius Chukwumah 9780367593605
RRP: $77.98$68.97Jokes 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... -
Acting Comedy Christopher Olsen 9781138891418
RRP: $72.13$64.06Despite 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... -
Comedy and the Public Sphere: The Rebirth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena Arpad Szakolczai 9781138920668
RRP: $74.08$65.70The 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... -
Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour Chiara Bucaria 9781137593375
$204.73The 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: The Joker System, after Boal Mady Schutzman 9781138210035
RRP: $72.13$64.06Radical 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... -
Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time (includes CD) Jess Oppenheimer 9780815605843
RRP: $33.05$28.84The man Lucille Ball called ""the brains"" of ""I Love Lucy"" gives us an inside view of television history as it was being made. Jess Oppenheimer's famous sitcom was the most popular and influential television phenomenon in the history of the medium... -
The Stewart/Colbert Effect: Essays on the Real Impacts of Fake News Amarnath Amarasingam 9780786458868
RRP: $29.23$25.39The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have attracted much interest in recent years from popular audiences as well as scholars in various disciplines. Both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have been named on Time magazine's list of the... -
Funny Mummy Jenny Wynter 9780648227083
RRP: $17.53$13.63Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648227083Author Jenny WynterFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Quirkish ManagementPublisher Quirkish ManagementWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 203mm *... -
Ken Ludwig's Shakespeare in Hollywood Ken Ludwig 9780573633423
$24.02Winner! of the 2004 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play It's 1934, and Shakespeare's most famous fairies, Oberon and Puck, have magically materialized on the Warner Bros. Hollywood set of Max Reinhardt's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Instantly smitten by... -
Brady Bunch Book Andy Edelstein 9780446391375
RRP: $33.13$31.57Here's the story of a lovely lady....Well, you know how it goes, especially if you're a nostalgia-loving baby-boomer who grew up with the Bradys! This is the definitive book on America's #1 TV family--complete with star biographies, episode summaries,...