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• Author(s): Martin Kari • Publisher: Balboa Press Au • Publisher Imprint: Balboa Press Au • BISAC: ComedyWe all live in a glasshouse of our own, knowing very little about the other glasshouses around us. Let's therefore get out of our glasshouse...

• Author(s): Athene Seyler • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Theater - General"a work on the art and craft of comedy as important in its own way as works by Stanislavski and Chekhov" - Oxford Theatre Compan...

• Author(s): Mel Watkins • Publisher: Chicago Review Press • Publisher Imprint: Chicago Review Press • BISAC: ComedyThis comprehensive history of black humor sets it in the context of American popular culture. Blackface minstrelsy, Stepin Fetchit...

• Author(s): Mark A. Robinson • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismFrom I Love Lucy to Will & Grace, this book looks at the tele...

• Author(s): Steve Kaplan • Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions • Publisher Imprint: Michael Wiese Productions • BISAC: ComedyWhile other books give you tips on how to "write funny," this book offers a paradigm shift in understanding the mechani...

• Author(s): Andrew Horton • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ d...

• Author(s): John Limon • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: ComedyStand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciate...

• Author(s): Ian Wilkie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ComedyThe Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal Comedy Studies in the dec...

• Author(s): Barry Friedman • Publisher: Balkan Press • Publisher Imprint: Balkan Press • BISAC: MemoirsBarry Friedman, a veteran of 30 years on the comedy road, delivers another punchline on standup. Filled with garden-variety kleptomaniacs, lar...

• Author(s): Iain MacKenzie | Fred Francis | Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Media StudiesThroughout history, comedians and clowns h...

• Author(s): Elliott Kalan • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: HumorThe winner of four Emmys, a Peabody, and two Writers Guild Awards (all of which badly need dusting) explains his pr...

• Author(s): Sophie Quirk • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: ComedyFunny, lively and unpredictable, stand-up comedy is above all a medium to be enjoyed. Popular as a good night out and p...

• Author(s): Richard Andrews • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralThis book examines the scripted stage comedies of the Italian Renaissance, tracing their transition fro...

• Author(s): Natasha Sukunda • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: ComedyThis funny joke book is packed with hundreds of quick, witty, and hilarious jokes that are sure to make anyone laugh out...

• Author(s): Lijun Wang • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsA collection of the best and funniest comedies ever put on scree...

• Author(s): Ryan Ebelt • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralA volume of the drawings from the Kill Tony podcast done live f...

• Author(s): Jan McInnis • Publisher: Cubicle Comedy • Publisher Imprint: Cubicle Comedy • BISAC: MotivationalWhat's it like to be a full-time comedian? You can find out in these pages. Jan has spent more than two decades as a professional comedi...

• Author(s): Norman Krasna • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: GeneralA Couple Find Themselves In A Variety Of Comical Situations When They Meet By Chance In New York.

• Author(s): Scott Dikkers • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Personal SuccessFind the funny in your writing, speeches, presentations, and everyday conversations Are you ready to elevate your writing, speeches, and conversatio...

• Author(s): Henry Thomas Riley • Publisher: Hansebooks • Publisher Imprint: Hansebooks • BISAC: GeneralComedies - Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different t...

• Author(s): S. a. Abakwue • Publisher: Xlibris • Publisher Imprint: Xlibris • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Oliver Double • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis accessible and insightful volume features chapters from diverse contributor...

• Author(s): William Grange • Publisher: Praeger Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Praeger Publishers • BISAC: European - GeneralTheatre was one of many German institutions experiencing profound change in the aftermath of World War I. Grange conten...

• Author(s): Isaac De Benserade | R. Ballard • Publisher: Hachette Livre Bnf • Publisher Imprint: Hachette Livre Bnf • BISAC: GeneralLes nopces de Pélée et de Thétis . Comédie italienne en musique, entre-mêlée d'un ballet sur le même sujet, dansé...

• Author(s): Samuel Patrick | Terence Terence • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as ...

• Author(s): Molière | Pierre Carlet Chamblain De De Marivaux | Néricault Destouches • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of...

• Author(s): Nicholas Holm • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - Genres - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh bu...

• Author(s): Carol Dold • Publisher: Authorhouse • Publisher Imprint: Authorhouse • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousCarol's Counsel, Comedies, & Calamities is a trilogy. Volumes I, II, & III include stories, poems, songs, and Bibl...

• Author(s): Judy Carter • Publisher: Comedy Workshops • Publisher Imprint: Comedy Workshops • BISAC: ComedyIn Making Money Being Funny, comedian, keynote speaker, bestselling author, and widely known as the "Star Maker of Stand-Up," Judy Carter ...

• Author(s): Oliver Double • Publisher: Methuen Drama • Publisher Imprint: Methuen Drama • BISAC: ComedyIn the late 1970s, the alternative comedy scene exploded into life in Britain and completely changed the style, subject matter and politics of...

• Author(s): Colorado Comics • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform • BISAC: Form - EssaysThe humorous, and sometimes even serious, musings of some of the members ...

• Author(s): Nick Marx • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: ComedyIn Sketch Comedy: Identity, Reflexivity, and American Television, Nick Marx examines some of the genre's most me...

• Author(s): Kate Ince • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSince the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western coun...

• Author(s): Chris Head • Publisher: Yellow Door Books • Publisher Imprint: Yellow Door Books • BISAC: ComedyThe Complete Comedy Script Toolkit is a highly practical and inspiring collection of creative tools for funnier sitcoms, comedy dramas, s...

• Author(s): Tom Paulus • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many ...