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Comedy Writing Self-Taught

The Professional Skill-Building Course in Writing Stand-Up, Sketch, and Situation Comedy

by Gene Perret
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015

In “Comedy Writing Self-Taught,” Perret (a legendary comedy writing teacher as well as a famous TV comedy writer and producer) teaches aspiring comedy writers how they can teach themselves the essential principles of comedy writing through comedy analysis and writing exercises. Covering the essential...
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by Simon Cavalli
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013

***Have You Ever Watch In Awe As Someone Performs Amazing Stand Up Comedy?******Ever Thought If You Could Do The Same Thing?******Do You Want To Make People Laugh Endlessly By Becoming A Stand Up Comedian?***WHY STAND UP COMEDY?Being a stand up comedian is something which...
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The Comedy Bible

From Stand-up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide

by Judy Carter
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010

Judy Carter, guru to aspiring comedy writers and stand-up comics, tells all about the biz of being funny and writing funny in this bright, entertaining, and totally practical guide on how to draw humor from your life and turn it into a career. Do you think you’re funny? Do you want to turn...
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Sick in the Head

Conversations About Life and Comedy

by Judd Apatow
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE A.V. CLUB • Includes new interviews! From the writer and director of Knocked Up and the producer of Freaks and Geeks comes a collection of intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy from...
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Women and Comedy

History, Theory, Practice

by Regina Barreca, Jacky Bratton, Gilli Bush-Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences...
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by Vince Vieceli, Bill Brady
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014

Ten years after Chicago saw its first full-time comedy club open, the landscape was decidedly different. �Stand-up comedy has exploded in the last couple of years,� a club owner told the Chicago Tribune in 1985, �that�s the only way to describe it: exploded.� It was truly a comedy boom, with...
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by Dave Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014

"Utterly indispensible guide for anyone wanting to make a living at comedy, and very funny too." British Comedy Guide "Dave writes about comedy more concisely and in more depth than I ever could. For this reason alone I dislike him intensely." Omid Djalili Comedian, Perrier nominee...
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by Philip Peredo
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014

Do you love performing stand-up comedy? Is it your passion? Do you wish you could do it full-time? Do you have a day job just to pay the bills? Would you like to learn how to quit your day job and have all the business skills necessary to go full-time with stand-up comedy? And if you're already doing...
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by Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017

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 funny? And what might that have to do with our social...
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The Everything Guide to Comedy Writing

From stand-up to sketch - all you need to succeed in the world of comedy

by Mike Bent
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2009

A guy walks into a bar... With this guide, aspiring comics will learn to navigate the complex world of comedy writing. Discover how to tap into your natural sense of humor through real-life examples and hands-on skill-building exercises. Learn the best ways to come up with ideas and write comedy...
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Kicking Through the Ashes

My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom

by Ritch Shydner, Rosanne Buemi Jarvis, Lori Parsells
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016

Comedian Ritch Shydner is one of America's funniest and most enduring stand-up comics, a wry observer of life around him and a survivor of the 1980s comedy boom. Besides becoming a comic's comic over the decades, he has starred on television's "Married With Children" and won awards...
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Comedy Writing Self-Taught Workbook

More than 100 Practical Writing Exercises to Develop Your Comedy Writing Skills

by Gene Perret, Linda Perret
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015

"Can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?" "Practice, practice, practice." That's more than a joke; it's solid advice. Consider world-class performers in any field -- golf, figure skating, music, whatever. One thing you can safely say about each is that they achieved their level of skill through...
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Comic Insights

The Art of Stand-up Comedy

by Franklyn Ajaye
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

If you want to make it in stand-up comedy, this book is a must-read. If you want to write comedy, this book is a must-read. If you simply enjoy comedy, this book is a must-read. Comic Insights contains fascinating, candid, insightful interviews with today’s top comedians, who discuss at length...
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The Joke Is on Us

Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times

by James Brassett, Marc-Olivier Castagner, Seçil Dagtas
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018

This edited volume brings together scholars of comedy to assess how political comedy encounters neoliberal themes in contemporary media. Central to this task is the notion of genre; under neoliberal conditions (where market logics motivate most actions) genre becomes “mixed.” Once stable, discreet...
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