Comedy category: 18107 books
Unsuccessful Thug
One Comedian's Journey from Naptown to Tinseltown
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
From Naptown to Tinseltown—legendary stand-up comedian and actor Mike Epps finally tells all in this outrageous, hilarious, no-holds-barred memoir.
Before starring in Def Comedy Jam and Showtime at the Apollo—before the sold-out comedy shows, Uncle Buck, and becoming his hero Richard Pryor...
Comedy at the Edge
How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
When Lenny Bruce overdosed in 1966, he left behind an impressive legacy of edgy, politically charged comedy. Four short years later, a new breed of comic, inspired by Bruce's artistic fearlessness, made telling jokes an art form, forever putting to rest the stereotype of the one-liner borscht belt...
The Comedy Improv Handbook
A Comprehensive Guide to University Improvisational Comedy in Theatre and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
The Comedy Improv Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to University Improvisational Comedy in Theatre and Performance is a one-stop resource for both improv teachers and students, covering improv history, theory, maxims, exercises, games, and structures. You will learn the necessary skills and techniques...
Comedy Rules
From the Cambridge Footlights to Yes, Prime Minister
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Jonathan Lynn's credits include creating and co-writing the long-running comedy series Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, as well as hit films Clue, My Cousin Vinny, Nuns on the Run and The Whole Nine Yards. With experience as a comedy actor, writer and director, here Jonathan Lynn shares valuable...
Why Stand-up Matters
How Comedians Manipulate and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
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 consider comedy's social consequences. When...
by Eric Sykes
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Eric Sykes is one of Britain's creative comedy geniuses combining personal warmth, superbly observed written and performed comedy and a deeply intimate understanding of what a viewing audience wants. Here he has assembled a comedy hall of fame for those who have inspired, entertained and, most of...
The Comic Toolbox
How to be Funny Even if You're Not
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Comedy is not magic, not inspiration, not a “gift.” Mostly, it’s simple rules and structures—the logic of the illogical—tools that anyone can use. The Comic Toolbox is a straightforward, often humorous, workbook approach to comedy writing as creative problem solving. In...
The Romantic Comedy Bargain Box Set #1
A Romantic Comedy Collection
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2013
A bargain box set of three of Lynda Renham’s hilarious full length romantic comedy novels. Including:
Croissants and Jam
Annabel Lewis (Bels) has two days to get to her wedding in Rome but her journey is beset with one disaster after another as fate takes its turn. Will the stranger...
Comic Venus
Women and Comedy in American Silent Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
For many people the term “silent comedy” conjures up images of Charlie Chaplin’s Little Tramp, Buster Keaton’s Stoneface, or Harold Lloyd hanging precariously from the side of a skyscraper. Even people who have never seen a silent film can recognize these comedians at a glance. But what about...
Last Man Standing
Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A Times Literary Supplement 2017 Book of the Year
On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a new generation of smart comics emerged--Shelley Berman,...
by Jonathan Goossen
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
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 historical influence on Jonson’s and Shakespeare’s...
by John Dowie
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
My comedy career began in 1971, which proves I have no comic timing. In 1971 there were no comedy clubs, no comedy agents and not much comedy future.
Inspired by Spike Milligan, John Dowie embarked on his comedy career in a time when such a thing was virtually unheard of, and then, just as...
Chicago Comedy
A Fairly Serious History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011
“An overview of Chicago’s comedic legacy, from its early days . . . to its present day position as a breeding ground for some of comedy’s biggest names” (Gapers Block).
Famous for being a city of broad shoulders, Chicago has also developed an international reputation for split sides...
by Scott Cherney
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Royalty FREE Comedy Sketches
Perfect for Comedy Revues, Vaudeville or Variety Shows
From the mind of Scott Cherney, author of SONG OF THE CANYON KID, these hilarious original comedy sketches, gags and blackouts are available in one collection completely ROYALTY FREE.
Sketches included in Now...