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  • For Better For Worse
    David Edgecombe
    A look at the timeless aspects of soceity with a story as relevant today as it was at its first conception."It is rare when an author's first play is a drawing-room comedy. It is (even) more rare when that play is a success. But that is the story behind...For Better For Worse."-Jack Kapica, Montreal Gazette August 15, 1974."For Better For Worse ... can be read and performed...
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    10,93 €

  • Bert and I
    Marshall Dodge / Robert Bryan
    Marshall Dodge and Bob Bryan began swapping funny Down East stories when they students at Yale in the 1950s. Their fascination and appreciation for Maine and its people triggered the production of several “Bert and I” records, from which 14 stories were selected. ...
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    18,60 €

  • Working to Laugh
    James M. Thomas / James MThomas
    For decades, stand-up comedy has been central to the imbrication of popular culture and political discourse, reshaping the margins of political critique, and often within the contexts of urban nightlife entertainment. In Working to Laugh: Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues, James M. Thomas (JT) provides an ethnographic analysis of urban nightlife sites whe...
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    125,22 €

  • Behind Sach
    Jim Manago
    This is the hardback edition. 'Your father is the American Chaplin.'- Groucho Marx (speaking to Gary Hall)'Huntz Hall was a complicated person: extremely generous and loving on the one hand, scarily angry and violent on the other....As I get older I understand my father much better-he was emotionally deprived as a kid, and then he was unprepared for fame and money when they arr...
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    36,80 €

  • The Imperfection of Being
    Dave Burke
    Peter Smith sets about his normal daily routine only to find his day, his world and his whole life turned upside down as a series of rather unfortunate events; unravel around him. Unfortunately for them he also drags three relative strangers into it all, as his problems go from bad to worse and Peter goes from being rather annoyed to near insanity. Things all start to go wrong ...
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    47,74 €

  • The Imperfection of Being
    Dave Burke
    Peter Smith sets about his normal daily routine only to find his day, his world and his whole life turned upside down as a series of rather unfortunate events; unravel around him. Unfortunately for them he also drags three relative strangers into it all, as his problems go from bad to worse and Peter goes from being rather annoyed to near insanity. Things all start to go wrong ...
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    28,17 €

  • Hail, Hail, Euphoria!
    Roy Blount
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    15,07 €

  • Mad Movies with the LA Connection
    Mike White
    Shirley Temple possessed by demons? Danny Kaye singing like Michael Jackson? Are the characters in Night of the Living Dead planning a party? There’s nothing wrong with your television set. It’s Mad Movies with the L.A. Connection, the television show that ran from 1985-1989 in the wee hours of the night. Founded in 1977, The L.A. Connection is still going strong with sketch c...
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    22,41 €

  • Crazy Janitors
    Ruth Toby
    Cathy and Rick are the owners of a janitorial company. Their employees are ruining homes and annoying their employers. Janitor Fat John eats the oysters, a treat for Mrs. Schmitt’s daughter. In another house, Fat John was chased out with ripe tomatoes. Stale Kronchy, who starts shooting at Rick, is chasing Rick in the freeway. Stale was held by a fat black policewoman who kept ...
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    20,50 €

  • Reeling with Laughter
    Michael V. Tueth / Michael VTueth
    Film comedy has been around as long as cinema itself. Over the years, particular forms of the genre have emerged, evolved, and spawned other branches of comedy. While these subgenres may vary in their approach to humor, all of them have the same goal: amusing audiences. In Reeling with Laughter: American Film Comedies-From Anarchy to Mockumentary, Michael V. Tueth examines some...
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    43,24 €

  • Whose Improv Is It Anyway?
    Amy E. Seham
    On both sides of the stage improv-comedy’s popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and ’90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With nothing but a suggestion from the audience, daring young improvisers working without a net or a script create hilarious characters, sketches, and songs. Thrilled by the danger, the ...
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    49,99 €

  • How to Be a Sitcom Writer
    Marc Blake
    Everyone loves - and hates - sitcom. On TV it’s the goldmine genre, the one watched by millions. There’s a special place in our hearts for Fawlty, Frasier, Blackadder and Brent. An absurd predicament, witty banter, a group of hilariously dysfunctional people: it all seems so easy. But is it? If you’ve ever said ’I can do better than that’, then this is the book for you. How to ...
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    11,80 €

  • All Joking Aside
    Rebecca Krefting
    A professor of American Studies--and stand-up comic--examines sharply focused comedy and its cultural utility in contemporary society.Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceIn this examination of stand-up comedy, Rebecca Krefting establishes a new genre of comedic production, 'charged humor,' and charts its pathways from production to consumption. Some jokes are tears in the fabric ...
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    33,85 €

  • Saturday Night
    Doug Hill / Jeff Weingrad
    Saturday Night is the intimate history of the original Saturday Night Live, from its beginnings as an outlaw program produced by an unruly band of renegades from the comedy underground to a TV institution that made stars of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Laraine Newman, Garrett Morris, Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy. This is the book that revea...
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    23,93 €

  • Body Magic
    John Fisher
    An entertaining handbook of magic tricks you can perform without fancy, costly equipment. ...
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    12,16 €

  • No Fairytales
    Sarah Sharp
    No fairy tales is about three couples who are different stages in there lives. The couples have to overcome obstacles such as divorce, affairs and health scares. With the help of crazy friends and amazing new ones these couples overcome all the obstacles in there way. No fairy tales is full of laughter, tears and good old fashioned friendship. 3 ...
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    22,77 €

  • Ward Hall - King of the Sideshow!
    TIM O'BRIEN / Tim O’Brien
    Ward Hall ran across town and joined the circus for a part time gig in 1944 when he was a 'kid' living in Colorado. A year later, as a 15 year old 10th grade dropout, he ran away for good, joining the Dailey Bros. Circus. He never looked back. By 16 he was performing in a sideshow and by age 21, he owned a sideshow!Today, 70 years later and countless circus and side show, vaude...
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    31,56 €

  • Ward Hall - King of the Sideshow!
    TIM O'BRIEN / Tim O’Brien
    Ward Hall ran across town and joined the circus for a part time gig in 1944 when he was a 'kid' living in Colorado. A year later, as a 15 year old 10th grade dropout, he ran away for good, joining the Dailey Bros. Circus. He never looked back. By 16 he was performing in a sideshow and by age 21, he owned a sideshow!Today, 70 years later and countless circus and side show, vaude...
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    22,77 €

  • Women and Comedy
    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 of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of ...
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    124,76 €

  • The Victorian Clown
    Ann Featherstone / Jacky Bratton
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    61,58 €

  • Two Voices
    Brett Konen / Peg Kehret
    Finally a collection of duets from the best-selling author of "Winning Monologs for Young Actors" and her granddaughter. These humorous and thoughtful scenes present distinctive viewpoints on issues meant to provoke and inspire discussion as well as to entertain. Most roles can be played by either gender. The short length of each scene makes it easy for students to memorize the...
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    19,76 €

  • Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs
    Lucie Skeaping / Roger Clegg
    A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise. This performance edition presents for the first time nine examples of English dramatic jigs from the late sixteenth century through to the Restoration. ...
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    67,05 €

  • How to Be a Working Comic
    Dave Schwensen
    The classic business book on stand-up comedy is back - revisited, revised and revamped. Considered 'The Guidebook' by many aspiring and working comics, the author shares more insider advice than any other manual including how to try out material; get onstage experience; create promotional material and market your act to talent bookers; work with managers and agents; book yourse...
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    17,15 €

  • Magic for Everyone
    Mario Berardelli
    Every trick selected had to be practical and no manipulative move was required. A means of eliminating the difficult move had to be created to present you with a variety of tricks, using only common articles that are easily obtainable. Any special apparatus required must be simple enough to be made by the average person or child. Also, any material thereof must be easily obtain...
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    16,30 €

  • Uncle Vanya
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov / 1stworldpublishing
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - A country house on a terrace. In front of it a garden. In an avenue of trees, under an old poplar, stands a table set for tea, with a samov...
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    13,58 €

  • Orality and the Scriptures
    Ernst R. Wendland / Ernst RWendland
    What does 'orality' (oral forms of discourse) have to do with the 'Scriptures,' a corpus of sacred written documents? The aim of these essays is to reveal how the field of 'orality studies' concerns the manifold process of composing, translating, and transmitting the diverse texts of Scriptures. This oft-neglected oral/aural dimension of communication provides us with a sharper...
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    35,28 €

  • Beyond Satire
    Rowan Dean
    Romping hilariously through the three years of the Gillard/Rudd government, Rowan Dean's sharp pen and eagle eye chronicle the finest and funniest moments of what has been an exhilarating roller-coaster ride. From the back-stabbing intrigues of Julia Caesar in ancient Rome to the reincarnation of Kevin VII and the latest positions of the Kevin Sutra, from Mission Impossible exp...
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    24,28 €

  • Cattails and Sagebrush
    Victor Pearn
    Stories abound in this book, and a river runs through it.The stories are random and recurring, like memory itself. Family history. A conversation struck up with an old man in a bar. A long ago Pony League team undefeated. A young marine walking in an empty baseball field in Oahu, reading his college acceptance letter. The stories, like the cue balls Pearn describes in another p...
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    27,54 €

  • Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion
    Paul Binder
    Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion (and other uncommon tales from the founder of the Big Apple Circus) is a celebration of Paul Binder’s life in and around the circus. Drawing on thirty-five years with the show he created, the Big Apple Circus’ founder and founding Artistic Director invites us inside the fence every kid peers through for an intimate look at the uncommon life...
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    23,39 €

  • Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion
    Paul Binder
    Never Quote the Weather to a Sea Lion (and other uncommon tales from the founder of the Big Apple Circus) is a celebration of Paul Binder’s life in and around the circus. Drawing on thirty-five years with the show he created, the Big Apple Circus’ founder and founding Artistic Director invites us inside the fence every kid peers through for an intimate look at the uncommon life...
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    29,78 €


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