Humour Comedy category: 17948 books
What's So Funny?
Lessons from Canada's Leacock Medal for Humour Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Is there a Canadian sense of humour? How can we write with more humour? And what can humour writing teach us about ourselves? These are questions explored in What’s So Funny? Lessons from Canada’s Leacock Medal for Humour Writing — Ottawa writer Dick Bourgeois-Doyle's personal review of books that have won our country’s premier award for humour writing.
The New Comedy Writing Step by Step
Revised and Updated with Words of Instruction, Encouragement, and Inspiration from Legends of the Comedy Profession
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
Three-time Emmy Award-winner Gene Perret's ""Comedy Writing Step by Step"" has been the manual for humor writers for 25 years. In this new book, his first update, Perret offers readers a treasure trove of guidelines and suggestions covering a broad range of comedy writing situations,...
by Gene Perret
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Beginning comedy writers and performers may think funny can't be taught, but legendary comedy writer Gene Perret, winner of three Emmy Awards, tells otherwise in this guide to what makes a good joke work. Outlining the 10 commandments of comedy, the unbreakable rules that every gag must follow in order...
Getting the Joke
The Inner Workings of Stand-Up Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
'This is the kind of book that troubles grey-suited committees of academic peers. It's too enjoyable. But that, given its subject, is just what it ought to be, and it treats that subject seriously . . . There isn't a "dull†? page anywhere in the book.' – Professor Peter Thomson, Studies in...
The Comic Event
Comedic Performance from the 1950s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
The Comic Event approaches comedy as dynamic phenomenon that involves the gathering of elements of performance, signifiers, timings, tones, gestures, previous comic bits, and other self-conscious structures into an "event†? that triggers, by virtue of a "cut,†? an expected/unexpected...
Hysterical!
Women in American Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens large and small, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's funny women aren't a new phenomenon—they have...
Essential Jokes
For Ice Breaking Moments
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Introduction There is a reason I compiled this book of humour, and it’s a good one. Ever since I can remember, humour has always been an ice breaker for me for two big and important reasons. It is for me an essential tool to use in career and social situations. If you have read my book Explanations...
by Herman Charles Bosman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
This reissued collection contains the best of Bosman’s stories and humour, previously published in two volumes: Starlight on the Veld: Best of Herman Charles Bosman’s Stories and Recognising Blues: Best of Herman Charles Bosman’s Humour. Starlight on the Veld is a collection of 25 of Bosman’s...
Now That's Funny!
The Art and Craft of Writing Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
There is a feeling of pure delight that comes from laughing out loud while watching a hilarious movie or a TV show. Yet as funny as these lines may be, they are the work of people you will never see. The magic behind any comedy hit begins when an idea is hatched in the mind of a comedy writer and...
Seriously Funny
The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
The comedians of the 1950s and 1960s were a totally different breed of relevant, revolutionary performer from any that came before or after, comics whose humor did much more than pry guffaws out of audiences. Gerald Nachman presents the stories of the groundbreaking comedy stars of those years, each...
by Cindy Vincent
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2013
As a young girl Griffin went to St. Bernadine's Elementary School, and began to establish a dislike for coordinated religion due to the punishments of the nuns towards her and additional "prone" students. After graduation, she went to Oak Park and River Forest Highschool and sought refuge...
The Girl in the Show
Three Generations of Comedy, Culture, and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
This history of the women who make us laugh is “a piercing, smart, and essential read for students and fans of comedy” (Booklist).
“I’m not funny at all. What I am is brave.” —Lucille Ball
The Girl in the Show explores how comedy and feminism have grown hand in hand to give...
Opportunity Knox
Twenty Years of Award-Losing Humour Writing
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Longlisted, 2018 Leacock Medal for Humour
A hilarious collection of Jack Knox's best-loved humour columns.
In this side-splitting follow-up to the bestseller Hard Knox: Musings from the Edge of Canada, Jack Knox presents his best writing, marking his twenty-year anniversary as a humour...
Homey Don't Play That!
The Story of In Living Color and the Black Comedy Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
“A fascinating inside look at the trailblazing series” (Entertainment Tonight)—discover the behind-the-scenes stories and lasting impact of the trailblazing sketch comedy show that upended television, launched the careers of some of our biggest stars, and changed the way we talk, think, and...