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• 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): Logan Murray • Publisher: Teach Yourself • Publisher Imprint: Teach Yourself • BISAC: ComedyLEARN HOW TO WRITE AND PERFORM STAND UP COMEDY. A new edition of Be A Great Stand-Up, now fully revised and updated with new material on sett...

• Author(s): Morris | Julie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryQuestioning society and one's place in it is a common theme in both comedy and so...

• Author(s): Lawrence Finnegan • Publisher: Lawrence Finnegan • Publisher Imprint: Lawrence Finnegan • BISAC: ComedySure, you might be funny; but looks aren't everything! This guide offers an in-depth look at laughter, humor, and comedy. Do you w...

• Author(s): Jay Sankey • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ComedyIn this engaging and disarmingly frank book, comic Jay Sankey spills the beans, explaining not only how to write and perform stand-up comedy, but how to ...

• Author(s): David Kalat • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Genres - Comedy American silent film comedies were dominated by sight gags, stunts and comic violence. With the advent of s...

• Author(s): James Melville Janson • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: ComedyThe Encyclopedia Of Comedy, written by James Melville Janson, is a comprehensive guide to all things humorous. It is aim...

• Author(s): Arthur Asa Berger • Publisher: Vernon Press • Publisher Imprint: Vernon Press • BISAC: Topic - Regional & CulturalIt is the age-old saying that "laughter is the best medicine". Scientific research has substantiated the claim made...

• Author(s): Shaun May • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: ComedyAs far as we know, only human beings have a sense of humour - although chimps might laugh when tickled, and dogs respond s...

• Author(s): Jonathan Lynn • Publisher: Faber & Faber • Publisher Imprint: Faber & FaberJonathan Lynn, the co-writer of 'Yes Minister', presents an insider's look at how comedy works through a collection of hilarious anecdotes.

• Author(s): Susan Horowitz • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsThrough candid personal interviews with Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, and other visionary performers, Queens of Comedy ex...

• Author(s): Inger-Lise Kalvikne Bore • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesThe question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity. This book contributes to that debat...

• Author(s): Mike Donovan • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: ComedyThis is a book about my career as a stand-up comedian and it is a book about stand-up comedy in general. It is 96,000 words...

• Author(s): John Wright • Publisher: Nick Hern Books • Publisher Imprint: Nick Hern BooksComedy is recognised as one of the most problematic areas of performance. For that reason, it is rarely written about in any systematic way. This is an inte...

• Author(s): Mel C. Thompson • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Form - Jokes & RiddlesBreak the ice at any party with this fun book of one-liners and short jokes. The first section is al...

• Author(s): Shaun May • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: ComedyAs far as we know, only human beings have a sense of humour - although chimps might laugh when tickled, and dogs respond s...

• Author(s): Oscar Wilde • Publisher: Gopublish • Publisher Imprint: Gopublish • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshOscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After wr...

• Author(s): Mary Irwin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ComedyFrom the Back CoverThis book looks at television comedy, drawn from across the UK and Ireland, and ranging chronologically from the 1980s to the ...

• Author(s): D. B. Walker • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Comedy

• Author(s): John Mundy • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsFrom the Back CoverLaughing Matters is an undergraduate level textbook taking an analytic approa...

• Author(s): Johny Oliver Bristard • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: General"Cracking Jokes" is your ultimate handbook for navigating the world of stand-up comedy with confidence and flair....

• Author(s): Rashi Bhargava • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman & Hall • BISAC: Topic - Celebrity & Popular CulturePunching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up c...

• Author(s): Mario Telò • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Ancient, Classical & MedievalRoman Comedy against the Subject provides an expansive interpretation of four Roman comedies named...

• Author(s): Julian Sturgis • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Form - Jokes & RiddlesComedy Sketches: For Two And Three Characters (1902) is a book written by Julian Sturgis. The book is a col...

• Author(s): Brian Dunbar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralComedy Films: A Teacher's Guide offers the ideal introduction for teachers of GCSE and AS/A level Film and Medi...

• Author(s): William Russo • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsA collection of selective reviews of comedy movies and TV from the past ten years of blogs by Ossurwo...

• Author(s): Agnes Heller • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: ComedyImmortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had writte...

• Author(s): Matt Sienkiewicz • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Political Process - Media & InternetA 2022 Best Comedy Book, Vulture A rousing call for liberals and progre...

• Author(s): Rashi Bhargava | Richa Chilana • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyPunching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in...

• Author(s): Arthur Asa Berger • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Transaction Publishers • BISAC: ComedyJust as a distinctive literary voice or style is marked by the ease with which it can be parodied, so too can specific asp...

• Author(s): Donald McCaffrey • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsAlthough Bob Hope has been the subject of many biographies, no book yet has fully explored the comic persona he created in...

• Author(s): Brian Dunbar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralComedy Films: A Teacher's Guide offers the ideal introduction for teachers of GCSE and AS/A level Film and Medi...

• Author(s): Wagg Stephen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureBecause I Tell a Joke or Two explores the complex relationship between comedy and the social differences of class, region, age, gender, sexual...

• Author(s): Stephen Hoover • Publisher: Stephen Hoover • Publisher Imprint: Stephen Hoover • BISAC: ComedyWhy do we laugh? How does comedy work? This book examines the theories from philosophers to scientists on why we need to laugh and how we l...

• Author(s): Garry Berman • Publisher: BearManor Media • Publisher Imprint: BearManor Media • BISAC: Comedy"Author Garry Berman gives readers a history lesson in comparing and overlapping the mediums of radio artists and film comedies during the ...