Comedy

From his harrowing childhood filled with physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his parents to a lifetime of alcoholism and self-mutilation, psychiatric hospitalizations and misdiagnoses to the peak of fame and success as the longest-tenured cast...

How gallows humor can bolster us to confront global warming We've all seen the headlines: oceans rising, historic heat waves, mass extinctions, climate refugees. It feels overwhelming, like nothing can make a difference in combating this ongoing global...

All humans laugh. However, there is little agreement about what is appropriate to laugh at. While laughter can unite people by showing how they share values and perspectives, it is also has the power to separate and divide. Humor that "crosses the line"...

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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...

What role can provocation play in the process of renewal, both of individuals and of societies? Provocation in Popular Culture is an investigation into the practice of specific provocateurs and the wider nature of cultural provocation, examining, among...

With his louche air and a developed taste for smoking, gambling, port and women, it's hard to believe Cis Farringdon is only fourteen. And that's because he isn't. Agatha his mother lopped five years from her true age and his when she married the amiable...

The neo-burlesque movement seeks to restore a sense of glamour, theatricality, and humor to striptease. Neo-burlesque performers strut their stuff in front of audiences that appreciate their playful brand of pro-sex, often gender-bending, feminism. ...

Comedian and performer Andy Kaufman's resume was impressive-a popular role on the beloved sitcom Taxi, a high-profile stand-up career, and a surprisingly successful stint in professional wrestling. Although he was by all accounts a sensitive and...

Unmarried sisters, in their 50s share a flat: Nina is brisk and gainfully employed; Nancy is plump, self-concious and redundant. However, when she becomes a model for a life-drawing class, Nancy glimpses a possible future. while Nina faces her unhappy...

The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville provides a unique record of what was once America's preeminent form of popular entertainment from the late 1800s through the early 1930s. It includes entries not only on the entertainers themselves, but also on those who...

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In the 1934 classic It Happened One Night, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark Gable. The new brand of movies following in the wake of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573110276Author Derek BenfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French LtdSeries Acting Edition S.

A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor--in a variety of forms--to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001, and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629334356Author John AntrobusFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

An Everyman who expressed the defiant spirit of freedom, Charlie Chaplin was first lauded and later reviled in the America that made him Hollywood's richest man. He was a figure of multiple paradoxes, and many studies have sought to unveil 'the man...

NEW IN PAPERBACK First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1904, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski, The Cherry Orchard remains a classic of the theatre. Completed less than a year before his death at the age of forty-four, Chekhov's last 'comedy'...

Beginning Tap Dance With HKPropel Access introduces students to tap dance techniques and cultivates an appreciation of tap dance as a performing art. Focusing on novice dancers, experienced tap dancer and dance instructor Lisa Lewis offers step-by-step...

Nominee! 2012 Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Play In Seminar, a provocative comedy from Pulitzer Prize nominee Theresa Rebeck, four aspiring young novelists sign up for private writing classes with Leonard (JEFF GOLDBLUM), an...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837913091Author Marc BlakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Acorn Books LtdPublisher Andrews UK Limited

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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

The recession is biting hard and so Emily and Oliver have decided to downsize and shift their middle-class London lifestyle to a small town in the north of England. They want to live and to work and to raise their two young children in a friendly...

Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416553656Author Steve MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster

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Part clown manual, part storytelling and part rant - The Clown Manifesto covers the experiences, philosophies and methods of the clown performer/director/teacher Nalleslavski. A book for clowns, physical comedians, actors, musicians, jugglers,...

One Sunday afternoon in a tiny postage-stamp garden, James Mullinger made the life-altering decision to give it all up: the London pubs, bustling city streets, and a flourishing comedy career. But where in the world would he and his partner raise a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555460Author Jaime WeinmanFormat HardbackPage Count 375Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

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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

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781691641406Author Danny LawrenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm)...

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 9780995655447Author Laura BarnardFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Laura BarnardPublisher Laura BarnardSeries One Month Til I Do