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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992869601Author Jill Millard ShapiroFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Obscuriosity PressPublisher Obscuriosity Press

British popular culture would probably be very different had Larry Stephens not been born. We could now be living in a world without the Carry On films or Monty Python, and we may never have heard of Tony Hancock, Peter Sellers or Spike Milligan...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573100093Author Michael GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971682719Author Deborah MaddoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Lucid SolutionsPublisher Lucid SolutionsWeight(grams) 148gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

On both sides of the stage improv-comedy's popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and '90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With nothing but a suggestion from the audience, daring...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470907013Author Chris WadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu Press IncWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 4mm

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

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566081993Author Mick NapierFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Christian Publishers LLCPublisher Christian Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 312g

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...

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...

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...

Comedy has always been one of the most high-profile, glamorous and potentially lucrative markets for scriptwriters, but it is also perceived as one of the hardest. In the fourth edition of this highly regarded handbook, John Byrne breaks down the basics...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573019173Author Norman RobbinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936709182Author Bruce FifeFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Piccadilly BooksPublisher Piccadilly BooksWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm *...

How do contemporary American female comics perform onstage, and what does this performance reveal about power relations in our culture as well as the existence of a "female" and, more specifically, "feminist" genre of stand-up comedy? In this long...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385545785Author Shawn LevyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Doubleday & Co Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062407313Author Patricia WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781678091743Author Brian LuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 21mm

Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time. You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think again. 'Glorious.' NEIL GAIMAN 'Touching and...

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...

Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of ""British Blondes"" brought modern burlesque to the...

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seeming birthday party for Stanley turns into a nightmare.The Birthday Party was first performed in 1958 and is now a modern classic, produced and studied...

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...

A 2022 Best Comedy Book, VultureA rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. "Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart?" These sorts...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595471980Author Jason ChinFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

In this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, "charged humor," and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric of our beliefs-they challenge myths about...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629337067Author John AntrobusFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint BearManor MediaPublisher BearManor MediaWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book is the result of a person having ideas who finds the world a magical/beautiful/ridiculous/horrific place to live. There is a poem about a grey cat in it, so if you like grey cats you might like that one. There is a short story about going round...

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 9781250037787Author Yael KohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 23mm

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 *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542334518Author Ian CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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'...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989746588Author Stephen HooverFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Stephen HooverPublisher Stephen HooverWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm