Comedy

Before Hacks and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, there was the comedienne who started it allFirst Lady of Laughs tells the story of Jean Carroll, the first Jewish woman to become a star in the field we now call stand-up comedy. Though rarely mentioned among...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635902785Author Jibz CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher Semiotext (E)

The Smithsonian Institution and the National Comedy Center hold unparalleled collections of objects that illustrate the vitality and importance of comedy in American life, from 19th century vaudeville, minstrel, and puppet shows to stand-up comedians,...

Stand-up comedy is one of the simplest theatre forms in existence. The comedian stands on a (usually) bare stage, talking straight to the audience in the hope of getting laughs. Yet it has never been more popular, with national scenes developing across...

A roadmap for understanding and creating comedy from the visionary Second City comedy director Great comedy can feel ineffable-and unlearnable. Debunking the myth that "either you are funny, or you aren't," Libera breaks the magic of comedy down into an...

The Black Pack: Comedy, Race & Resistance is the first book to chronicle the untold history behind the iconic collaborations between a legendary group of comedians-Eddie Murphy, Paul Mooney, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Robert Townsend, and Arsenio Hall-who...

Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and continues to influence contemporary stand-up comedy. The...

Horror films strive to make audiences scream, but they also garner plenty of laughs. In fact, there is a long tradition of horror directors who are fluent in humor, from James Whale to John Landis to Jordan Peele. So how might horror and humor overlap...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573113765Author Eric ChappellFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

'A heart-warming, joyous and assured debut novel about friendship that put me in mind of Kay Mellor at her funnies' RICHARD HERRING'Takes you inside the minds of a brilliant group of characters at very different stages of life. A gripping, witty, very...

The double act has been at the heart of the British entertainment scene for over 150 years: from its start in the music halls, through radio shows such as Hancock's Half Hour playing in virtually every household and on cinema and television, from Carry...

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Ground-breaking in its departure from its predecessors, When Harry Met Sally (1989) established classic romantic comedy themes and tropes still being employed today. Placing the film in its historical, social and generic contexts, Tamar Jeffers-McDonald...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914473135Author Evie AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Emlin PressPublisher Emlin PressSeries Evie and Kelly's Holiday Disasters

If you grow up in a world where wrinkles are practically illegal, going bald is cause for a mental breakdown, and women over size zero are encouraged to shoot themselves (immediately), what the hell do you do if you're, gasp ... DISABLED? Whatever body...

He was a radical stand up who dared to question the values of small town America and the evils of American foreign policy. Ruthlessly honest, a voice of reason in what he saw as an insane world, Hicks refused to compromise in spite of the censorship he...

Merchant-Ivory: Interviews gathers together for the first time interviews made over the past five decades with director James Ivory (b. 1928), producer Ismail Merchant (1936-2005), and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (b. 1927). Beginning with their...

If you're looking for a book that will teach you how to write comedy, we suggest you keep moving. You still have time to pick up a copy of Writing Big Yucks for Big Bucks before the store closes. However, if you want to understand the bigger picture --...

Gives a social and cultural context for every period of farce, giving readers a clear understanding of how and why the form has evolved over time.The only comprehensive and up to date account of farce and its development.Designed specifically to give...

The Stand-Up while Sitting Down Years...Jo Brand tells the story of how she crawled to fame and fortune, managed to persuade someone to marry her and had some children at an age when she should have been in a bath chair on the seafront. In this second...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497408401Author Rob NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

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From the preeminent historian of comedy, an expansive history of show business and the battles over culture that have echoed through the decades and changed the United States"Outrageous is required reading. An essential book of the social history of the...

Effortless humour and bucketloads of charm. It's impossible not to be bowled over by the ending. Most definitely my favourite celebrity memoir in a long time. Brilliant. - The SunThe **Sunday Times bestselling** memoir from the star of I'm a Celebrity...

In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983976063Author Darryl LittletonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Stand-up comedians have a long history of walking a careful line between serious and playful engagement with social issues: Lenny Bruce questioned the symbolic valence of racial slurs, Dick Gregory took time away from the stage to speak alongside Martin...

'Take Hair' is the third collection of writing and drawing from award winning writer and performer Rob Auton. Take Hair' houses the ideas that Rob wants to exist. The ideas that came to him that he got enough from to want to record them and share them...

Work is a joke. Laughing at it is political.Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is "reason gone mad." For Walter Benjamin, laughter was "the most revolutionary emotion." In a moment when great numbers of people are reevaluating their commitment to the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544334489Author Henry BushkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 132mm * 23mm

The Art of Drag: A Practical Performers' Handbook is the ultimate guide for all drag kings, queens and queers who want to bring their best to the stage.Filled with a wide range of exercises and advice from working performers, this book is a guide and...

This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning. Covering clowns in theatre, circus, cinema, TV, street and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088000779Author Kristine OhkuboFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999780395Author Alastair PuddickFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Raven Crest BooksPublisher Raven Crest Books

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781365048357Author Henry IntiliFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 6mm

Why Mummy Drinks meets Bridget Jones. The first in the bestselling comedy series. Juliette is a new mother, but life isn't going the way she'd hoped. She doesn't live in a cottage with roses around the door. She doesn't own a rolling pin. And Daisy's...

'You're strong, you're a Kelly Clarkson song, you got this.'Everything that comes out of Jonathan Van Ness's mouth is a gift from god. He's the man who taught us about hair, self-care and CON-FI-DONCE. The Little Book of Sass is a collection of the most...

'You're strong, you're a Kelly Clarkson song, you got this.'Everything that comes out of Jonathan Van Ness's mouth is a gift from god. He's the man who taught us about hair, self-care and CON-FI-DONCE. The Little Book of Sass is a collection of the most...

It is December 1936 and Broadway star William Gillette, admired the world over for his leading role in the play Sherlock Holmes, has invited his fellow cast-members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed...

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 across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new...