Comedy veteran Leifer tells hilarious stories about herself, in her laugh-out-loud literary debut that looks at life, love, family, and the aging process.
The 'Harold', an innovative improvisational tool, helped many actors on the road to TV and film stardom, including George Wendt (Norm on Cheers). Now it is described fully in this new book for would-be actors and comics. The 'Harold' is a form of competitive improv involving 6 or 7 players. They take a theme suggestion from the audience and 'free ...
All the world loves a clown and whether you want to clown around at parties or make a living as a standup comic, comedian Judy Carter can show you how to 'do' comedy.
Against the odds Jay Leno has emerged as the undisputed king of late night television as host of the number one-rated "The Tonight Show". His 20-year stand-up career, working alongside the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Garry Shandling, and David Letterman, was a long, hard, and laugh-filled battle to the top. In this entertaining, anecdote-filled book, ...
David Letterman, Jay Leno, Robin Williams and Andy Kaufman and many other soon-to-be-stars were once young, broke and funny in 1970's LA. They were also friends...until one event changed everything I'm Dying Up Here chronicles the collective coming of age of the stand-up comedians who defined American humour during the past three decades. Born ...
Updated and revised, this new edition of the bestselling favourite enables readers to master the fundamentals of humour writing and better understand the demands of the market for comedy. Comedy Writing Secrets now includes: Examples from venerable comedy greats as well as cutting-edge contemporary comedians A complete spectrum of techniques, from ...
Written by an experienced stand-up comic, this is a practical, hands-on guide for actors and performers. With observations on what it is that makes comedy work, Jay Sankey guides the performer through the challenges of being funny in public. Covering writing, character, delivery, performance, set structure, audiences, professional work, and ...
This Cosby collection includes nearly twenty humorous short essays about everything from childhood to the aged, a number of which are autobiographical in nature, exploring the author's rise in the comedy world.
In this classic best seller, Liza Dalby, the first non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite. A new preface examines how geisha have been profoundly affected by the changes of the past quarter century yet - especially in Kyoto - have managed to ...
From the success and cult status brought by "Monty Python," Palin shares stories from their world tours, their stay at hotels recently trashed by Led Zeppelin, their battles over censorship, and how individually the Pythons have gone their separate ways.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera" is one of the most successful musicals of all time. It is based on the classic romantic horror story set in the Paris Opera House in which a masked musician, living in the dark recesses of the vast building, commits murder in order to further the career of a young soprano with whom he is besotted. This ...
After leaping off the pages with her unforgettable debut in John Berendt's bestselling "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil", the unabashed personality known as The Lady Chablis brings her trademark saucy wit and down-home wisdom to this raucous and ribald autobiography.
During the 30's and 40's, Hollywood produced a genre of madcap comedies that emphasized reuniting the central couple after divorce or separation. And the female protagonists were strong, independent, and sophisticated. Here, Stanley Cavell examines seven of those classic movies for their cinematic techniques, and for such varies themes as feminism ...
Greg Dean examines the fundamentals of being funny and offers advice on a range of topics, including: writing creative joke material; rehearsing and performing routines; coping with stage fright; dealing with emcees who think they're funnier than you; getting experience; and lots more. Essential for the aspiring comic or the working comedian ...
With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East Side; the crooked world of small-time vaudeville (where they learned to carry blackjacks); how a pretzel magnate and the graceless dancer of his dreams ...
From 1881 to 1932, vaudeville was at the heart of show business in the UnitedStates. This volume explores the many ways in which vaudeville's story is thestory of show business in America.
Michael Fleming's THE THREE STOOGES is the authentic, official guide the Stooges, the only book written with the cooperation and resources of Comedy III, the production company formed by Larry, Moe and Curly-Joe, with access to just about every living person who worked with the Stooges, and rights to the exhaustive collection of Stooge ...
This captivating book presents a uniquely comprehensive cultural history of cabaret, where the most radical of artists, poets, writers, musicians, and theatre directors have gathered since 1881. Lisa Appignanesi takes us to the original cabaret - the smoke-filled rooms of the Chat Noir in Paris that served as a meeting place for the avant-garde ...
All you ever wanted to know about clowning is here. Includes over 200 workable clown acts for beginners, intermediates and advanced participants. All acts are classified by type, equipment needed, gymnastic skills, and practice required.
The popular talk-show host and bestselling author of Enter Talking gives a searing and funny account of her private tragedy, public fall from grace, and recent triumph against all odds.
The New York Friars club are renowned for dishing out jokes and insults in order to "roast" performers, politicians and personalities. This text is a compilation of tales, anecdotes and historical information about the club.
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