Comedy

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...

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...

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...

The 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 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...

Apologies 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 *...

Winner! 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...

The question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity. This book contributes to that debate by exploring how we evaluate screen comedy. What kinds of criteria do we use to judge films and TV shows that are meant to be...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385478021Author Dennis MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 197gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy relates new understandings of Aristotle's dramatic theory to the comedy of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Typically, scholars of Renaissance drama have treated Aristotle's theory only as a possible...

Hollywood Comedians, The Film Reader brings together key writings on one of the most consistently popular genres of Hollywood cinema. Despite the cult reputations enjoyed by star performers such as Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers and...

Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and...

We have grown accustomed to the ubiquity of corporate influence in retail outlets, restaurants, and even higher education-but what happens when corporations take over desire? The Naked Result: How Exotic Dance Became Big Business explores the changing...

Slapstick comedy landed like a pie in the face of twentieth-century culture. Pratfalls percolated alongside literary modernism throughout the 1920s and 1930s before slapstick found explosive expression in postwar literature, experimental film, and...

In this extended essay, Vittorio Hoesle develops a theory of the comical and applies it to interpret both the recurrent personae played by Woody Allen the actor and the philosophical issues addressed by Woody Allen the director in his films. Taking...

When the seemingly perfect Tartuffe ingratiates himself with the wealthy Orgon and his mother Madame Pernelle, he is soon welcomed into their home and into their lives. His combination of charm, respectability and religious authority proves so...

Ideal for classroom use, this anthology of original essays by the leading authorities on women's comedy surveys the disorderly, subversive, and unruly performances of women comics from silent film to contemporary multimedia Winner, Susan Koppleman Award...

* Trump Was a Joke offers the best, most-comprehensive guide yet to the power of political satire in shaping public opinion during turbulent political times. This exploration in satire and trump includes a foreword by American documentary filmmaker,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015463486Author MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

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* Trump Was a Joke offers the best, most-comprehensive guide yet to the power of political satire in shaping public opinion during turbulent political times. This exploration in satire and trump includes a foreword by American documentary filmmaker,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781016487979Author Hubert Henry DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015454316Author MoliereFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015686892Author Hubert Henry DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Legare Street PressPublisher Legare Street PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Analyses of humour often focus primarily on the Global North, with little consideration for examples and practices from elsewhere. This book provides a vital contribution to humour theory by developing a Global South perspective. Taking a wide-ranging...

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...

An insider's look at the power of comedy to effect social change From Trevor Noah's The Daily Show and Hasan Minhaj's Patriot Act, to Issa Rae's Insecure and Corey Ryan Forrester's Twitter feed, today's multi-platform comedy refuses to shy away from the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399180538Author Bob OdenkirkFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...