Humour Comedy category: 17948 books

Welcome to 'How to Be Dutch, the Quiz': the questions that SHOULD be on the Dutch citizenship exam, according to an American Netherlander who's been in the country for 20 years. If you're looking for an official guide to the Netherlands, this is not it. But if you're looking for some odd Dutch quirks...

The behind-the-scenes story  of one of the most successful and admired sitcoms of the 1980s In 1977 the BBC commissioned  a new satirical  sitcom set in Whitehall*.* Production of  its first  series was stalled, however, by the  death throes  of  Jim Callaghan's Labour government and ...

When Jagdish Chaturvedi, a doctor-turned-innovator-turned-author, could not balance his schedule effectively to perform as an actor, he chose to transition from theatre to a comparatively less schedule-intensive art form – stand-up comedy. This book is about the first year of his transformational...

It’s make or break time for John Dot... John Dot, mid-life, depressive, aged 47, whose body has seen better days is whisking his long-suffering girlfriend, Olivia, away to Margate for a romantic weekend. For him, Margate will make or break his re-kindled relationship with Olivia. What could...

Repeatedly jamming his fork of curiosity into the live toaster of opportunity, comedian Richard O. Smith captures the experience of living in Oxford in probably the funniest book written about the Dreaming Spires. Collected here are 70 of his best Oxford Examined columns from the award-winning Oxford...

'A Spree of Comedy' is a collection of individual scenes involving ordinary Irish people in everyday circumstances akin to a soap opera but is not a continuous storyline.The author repeats the characters in order for the readers to familiarise themselves with them. These characters are fictitious...

Laugh-Out-Loud Faith! Looking for tall tales to tickle your funny bone and encourage you in God's purpose and calling? Then you will love this ebook-only sample of true stories from actor and comedian Torry Martin! Whether dealing with pythons in South Africa, Toto the puppet in Seattle,...

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...

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...

Humour has been discovered in every known human culture and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. Humour can serve many functions; it can be used to relieve stress, to promote goodwill among strangers, to dissipate tension within a fractious group, to display intelligence, and some...

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...

This book is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about humour in all kinds of tourism settings. It discusses the many ways in which humour can occur during tourism exchanges including guided tours, tourism marketing and promotion and travel narratives. Other themes include the role of humour...

"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...

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...