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I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era William Knoedelseder 9781610398664
RRP: £15.99SciFier: £11.61In 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... -
Romantic Comedy Prof. Trevor R. Griffiths (London) 9781350183414
SciFier: £37.33'The course of true love never did run smooth' - so says Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and for more than 2000 years the problems faced by young men and women fighting to find and keep an... -
Film, Environment, Comedy by Robin L. Murray (Eastern Illinois University, USA)
RRP: £39.99SciFier: £38.53This book explores the transformative power of comedy to help connect a wider audience to films that explore environmental concerns and issues. This book offers a space in which to explore the... -
A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity by mr Michael Ewans
SciFier: £99.50Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics... -
The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power Caty Borum 9781479810833
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £20.23An 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,... -
The Revolution Will Be Hilarious: Comedy for Social Change and Civic Power Caty Borum 9781479810826
RRP: £74.00SciFier: £58.25An 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,... -
Acting Comedy Christopher Olsen 9781138891418
SciFier: £37.66Despite 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... -
Bring the Funny: The Essential Companion for the Comedy Screenwriter Greg DePaul 9781138929258
SciFier: £36.79A sharp, funny book about comedy screenwriting from a successful screenwriter that uses recent - as in this century - movies you've actually seen as examples. Greg DePaul (Screenwriter, Bride Wars,... -
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy Ian Brodie 9781628461824
SciFier: £72.25In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because... -
A Vulgar Art: A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy Ian Brodie 9781496807946
RRP: £28.95SciFier: £22.56In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because... -
Can We Laugh at That?: Comedy in a Conflicted Age Jacques Berlinerblau 9780520403031
RRP: £24.95SciFier: £16.56Did you hear the one about the comedian who was canceled? Comedians are no strangers to controversy or crossing the line. But some things do change. Humorists the world over are no longer simply... -
Because I Tell a Joke or Two: Comedy, Politics and Social Difference Stephen Wagg 9780415129213
SciFier: £37.66Because I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and nationhood. It shows how comedy has... -
The Haunting of Hattie Hastings: A heartwarming romantic comedy with a ghostly twist. Audrey Davis 9781036711504
RRP: £9.99SciFier: £8.99A hauntingly heartwarming and hilarious tale of love, loss and second chances... Hattie Hastings is living a simple but happy life with husband, Gary, and son, Johnny. But her world is turned... -
The Double Act: A History of British Comedy Duos Andrew Roberts 9780750984324
RRP: £20.00SciFier: £5.97The 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... -
Russell Brand: Comedy, Celebrity, Politics by Jane Arthurs
SciFier: £46.99Russell Brand is one of the most high profile and controversial celebrities of our time. A divisive figure, his ability to bounce back from adversity is remarkable. This book traces his various... -
New Indian Nuttahs: Comedy and Cultural Critique in Millennial India Kavyta Kay 9783030074203
SciFier: £46.99This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about... -
Inside No. 9: The Scripts Series 7-9: the final scripts from the acclaimed BBC comedy-horror anthology series, soon to be a West End stage production Steve Pemberton 9781399739054
RRP: £22.00SciFier: £15.37'The best comedy the UK has ever created' GUARDIAN'One of the most satisfying endings in TV history' INEWS 'Endlessly entertaining and richly rewarding' DAILY TELEGRAPH Inside No. 9 is the twisted,... -
Silent Film Comedy and American Culture Alan Bilton 9781137020246
SciFier: £46.99This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags... -
Doing Time: Comedians Talk Stand-Up JT Habersaat 9781916829268
RRP: £16.95SciFier: £12.21A wild and uncensored glimpse behind the curtain into the mad world of life as a touring stand-up comic. Drawing on countless hours of in-depth interviews with some of the most influential and... -
Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy by Jonathan Goossen
SciFier: £42.00Jonson, 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... -
Silent Film Comedy and American Culture Alan Bilton 9781349437474
SciFier: £46.99This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies as a form of collective anxiety dream, their fantastical images and illogical gags... -
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 3 by Hideki Goto
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.89All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games!Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games!Can you believe it's already our third volume of the Squid... -
Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change Aaron Sachs 9781479819393
RRP: £16.99SciFier: £16.35How 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... -
Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change Aaron Sachs 9781479840144
RRP: £11.99SciFier: £9.60How 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... -
Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space: Comedy, Italian Style Natalie Fullwood 9781137403568
SciFier: £92.99Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing comedies produced in Italy from 1958-70, examines the genre's representation of... -
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 4 by Hideki Goto
Viz MediaSciFier: £8.49All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games!Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games!Fourth time around is the charm! Inklings Hit, Maika and... -
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 5 by Hideki Goto
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games!Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games!Hit, Maika, and Kou are back in the high-spirited fifth... -
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 2 by Hideki Goto
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £5.19All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games!Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games!In these new stories from the world of Splatoon, Hit and... -
Cinema, Gender, and Everyday Space: Comedy, Italian Style Natalie Fullwood 9781349487042
SciFier: £92.99Commedia all'italiana, or Comedy, Italian style, became popular at a time of great social change. This book, utilizing comedies produced in Italy from 1958-70, examines the genre's representation of... -
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 6 Hideki Goto 9781974732210
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games!Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games!About the AuthorHideki Goto was born in Gifu Prefecture,... -
Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 1 by Hideki Goto
Viz MediaRRP: £7.99SciFier: £6.10All-new adventures featuring the beloved characters from the hit Nintendo video games!Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games!New Inklings take center stage as they and their friends... -
The Cambridge Footlights: A Very British Comedy Institution Robert Sellers (Independent author, UK) 9781350412187
SciFier: £20.53From Monty Python and Not the Nine O'Clock News to Peep Show, QI and The Great British Bake-Off, alumni of Britain's oldest student sketch comedy troupe have set the tone of cultural eras from the... -
Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film Kristen Anderson Wagner 9780814345290
RRP: £85.00SciFier: £71.49Examines the social and historical significance of women's contributions to American silent Film comedy. For many people the term ""silent comedy"" conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin's Little... -
The Birth of Comedy: Texts, Documents, and Art from Athenian Comic Competitions, 486-280 Jeffrey Rusten (Cornell University) 9780801894480
SciFier: £109.48Aside from the well-known plays of Aristophanes, many of the comedies of ancient Greece are known only through fragments and references written in Greek. Now a group of distinguished scholars brings... -
Funny Stuff: How Comedy Shaped American History Laura LaPlaca 9781978837966
RRP: £39.95SciFier: £25.59The 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... -
Comic Venus: Women and Comedy in American Silent Film Kristen Anderson Wagner 9780814341025
RRP: £29.95SciFier: £24.49Examines the social and historical significance of women's contributions to American silent film comedy.For many people the term "silent comedy" conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp,... -
Only Fools and Horses: The Story of Britain's Favourite Comedy Graham McCann 9780857860569
RRP: £10.99SciFier: £8.22In the thirty years since viewers first visited Nelson Mandela House, Only Fools and Horses has won countless awards and is still Britain's most-watched and best-loved sitcom. Del Boy's overwhelming... -
The Black Pack: Comedy, Race, and Resistance Artel Great 9781978838147
RRP: £58.00SciFier: £46.59The 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... -
The Black Pack: Comedy, Race, and Resistance Artel Great 9781978838130
RRP: £23.99SciFier: £19.46The 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... -
Performing in Comedy: A Student's Guide Ian Wilkie (University of London Institute for Education) 9781138913882
SciFier: £37.66Ian Wilkie contends that comic acting is a distinct art form, and as such demands a unique skillset. By exploring the ways in which performance choices and improvised moments can work in conjunction...