Humour Comedy category: 17948 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...
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...
Yorkshire Humour
Jokes, funny stories and humorous sayings compiled from Dalesman magazine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Yorkshire folk are funny: it's a fact. If you need proof, go and stand in a bus queue or sit in a café with a bunch of them, take a walk along the high street or in the countryside, or go to a football match or the barber's shop. Funny things will be said — guaranteed.If you need any more proof, delve...
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...
by Clifford Sawhney
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
While many Indian joke books are jokes themselves, this book avoids the pitfalls by its professional approach towards compilation, rewriting and editing. The book comprises the world’s best adult medical jokes, quips, quotes and humour. Bold and bawdy lines that don’t make it between the covers...
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,...
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 Harmik Vaishnav
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Humour is the most loved, tingling and fun filled feature of human emotion. There is hardly any living person who does not like humour or has not felt for this sensation. Great thinkers, comedians, actors etc. try their best to generate humour through their wit, actions and words.Quotations are great...
by Aubrey Malone
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This bumper collection of Irish humour covers topics such as Absenteeism and Zoos and everything in between. It would be disappointing should such a large collection not include the best of famous Irish wits such as Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, but the emphasis is very much on contemporary...
A Vulgar Art
A New Approach to Stand-Up Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
In 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 stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they...