Comedy category: 18107 books
The Haunted Smile
The Story Of Jewish Comedians In America
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength and soul from the comic genius of Jewish performers and writers. An incomplete listing of names makes...
Beyond a Joke
Inside the Dark World of Stand-up Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
Beyond a Joke is a celebration of comedy - one of the modern world's most dominant and compelling art forms - but it is also the story of comedy's dark side, homing in on the scandals that have surrounded some of light entertainment's biggest stars, and telling it as it is, featuring insight from...
by Ed Fischer, Jane Thomas Noland
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
One bonus of getting older is that it gives us a great perspective on life ...and that includes plenty of humor! This collection of cartoons, quips, quotes, and insights introduces a new comedy genre: elderhumor. It captures the wry hilarity of our real-life sitcoms. Generational vocabulary gaps,...
Louis C.K. and Philosophy
You Don't Get to Be Bored
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Charlie Rose has called Louis C.K. the philosopher-king of comedy,” and many have detected philosophical profundity in Louis’s comedy, some of which has been watched tens of millions of times on YouTube and elsewhere. Louis C.K. and Philosophy is designed to help Louis’s fans connect the dots...
How to Talk Dirty and Influence People
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions and widened the boundaries of free speech. Critic Ralph Gleason said, So many taboos have been lifted and so many comics have rushed...
From the Bottom Drawer of: Alan Zweibel
The Prize, The Ride Home, Sexting with Alan Dershowitz
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2011
Alan Zweibel dusts off some hilarious material written years ago that stand the test of time. An original Saturday Night Live writer, award winning author and playwright, Zweibel releases three never before published short stories: ''The Prize'', ''The Ride Home'', and ''Sexting with Alan Dershowitz''...
The Runaway Bride
Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2002
In the 1934 classic It Happened One Night, heiress Claudette Colbert races away from the altar and a conventional marriage and throws herself into a wisecracking rough-and-tumble affair with Clark Gable. The new brand of movies following in the wake of Capra's kooky masterpiece-and the women starring...
Who's to Say What's Obscene?
Politics, Culture, and Comedy in America Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
These are times of authoritarianism, war, and recession, and the more bad news there is, the more need there is for humor and irreverence to be directed toward the authorities calling the shots. In the spirit of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, Paul Krassner presents satirical critiques of contemporary...
by Lynn Breedlove
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
"Breedlove has talent coming out of her ears.”—Dodie Bellamy, San Francisco Chronicle
"Uninhibited humor lends tender insight and perspective to a gender politics debate that often takes place in a fiercely contentious atmosphere.”—Billy Tania, The San Francisco Bay Times
"...Offers...
by David Kline Lovett
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015
This book helps you to write and deliver jokes to attract more money, honey and health into your life.What makes this book unique is that it has 123 joke templates. The templates allow even someone who considers themselves as not funny the ability to easily write and present original funny jokes.This...
by Nalle Laanela, Stacey Sacks
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Part clown manual, part storytelling and part rant – The Clown Manifesto covers the experiences, philosophies and methods of the clown performer/director/teacher Nalleslavski. A book for clowns, physical comedians, actors, musicians, jugglers, puppeteers, magicians, street performers and dancers....
by Robert Lewis Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
"By the time of his death, on Christmas Day, 1946, he was widely acknowledged to have become the greatest comic artist ever known."
Born William Claude Dukinfield, he was son of a London cockney who migrated to Philadelphia in the late 1870's
Better known as W C. Fields, he...
Funny on Purpose
The Definitive Guide to an Unpredictable Career in Comedy: Standup + Improv + Sketch + TV + Writing + Directing + YouTube
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
It takes guts to be a comedian, and it takes smarts to make a living off it. In this insider's guide, former Onion Editor Joe Randazzo delivers a funny and insightful blueprint for those looking to turn their sense of humor into a vocation. Explaining how it works and how to break in, Joe provides...
Compass Points - Get Your Act Together
Writing A Stand-up Comedy Routine
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Confidence is essential for any stand–up comic and having confidence in your material is the first step to having greater confidence on stage. It is said that proper preparation makes for professional performance and this book provides the tools to achieve this, offering down-to-earth practical advice...