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I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era
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William Knoedelseder
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 ...
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Truth in Comedy: The Manual for Improvisation
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Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Howard Johnson
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 ...
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Napalm & Silly Putty
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George Carlin
Carlin waxes wickedly philosophical in this hilarious new collection of razor-sharp observations. The bestselling author of "Brain Droppings" proves once again that he's one comic who can successfully make the transition from stage to page with his ironic take on life's annoying universal truths.
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Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy
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Jay Sankey
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 ...
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Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America
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Richard Zoglin
Based on extensive interviews with club owners, agents, producers--and with unprecedented and unlimited access to the players themselves--this work is a no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most influential and tumultuous decades in American popular culture.
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Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy
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Greg Dean, Steve Allen (Foreword by)
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 ...
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Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s
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Gerald Nachman
Based in part on extensive interviews, this book examines the shift in comedy that occurred beginning in the 1950s. The comedians of that decade and the next were radically different from those that preceded them, and Nachman's study looks at them, their differing styles, and how each was to affect the comedy that was to come.
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The Ultimate Improv Book: A Complete Guide to Comedy Improvisation
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Edward J Nevraumont, Kurt Smeaton (Contributions by), Nicholas P Hanson
A complete improvisation curriculum in twenty-four class-length units. This comprehensive resource who shows the who, what, when, why and how of comedy improvisation. Main topics: What is improv?; Improvisational skills; Structuring; Strategies; How to start your own improvisation team. Includes many games and exercises.
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Stand-Up Comedy: The Book
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Judy Carter
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.
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I Killed: True Stories of the Road from America's Top Comics
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Ritch Shydner, Mark Schiff, Jerry Seinfeld (Foreword by)
The biggest names in standup comedy reveal the howlingly funny, completely shocking, and disturbingly bizarre moments they've experienced on the road.
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The Comedy Bible: From Stand-Up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide
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Judy Carter
Provides information for aspiring comedians, discussing how to create a routine and hone ideas, working with a comedy buddy, how to develop and polish material, how to get started in the business, and how to get paid.
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Make 'em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
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Laurence Maslon, Michael Kantor (Contributions by)
Make 'Em Laugh features the most popular routines, the most ingenious physical schtick, the snappiest wisecracks and the most biting satire of the last century. It helps readers understand who we are as a nation, what we have laughed at, and why. By melding comedy dialogue with biography and American history, Make 'Em Laugh informs as it ...
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Successful Stand-Up Comedy: Advice from a Comedy Writer
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Gene Perret
Offers invaluable advice on getting good material, rehearsing and polishing an act, conversing with an audience, taking charge of an audience, learning from past performances, and much more.
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How to Be a Stand-Up Comic
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Richard Belzer
Comedian Richard Belzer promises that he can turn anyone into a stand-up comedian. Here he makes good on that promise and provides a generous helping of laughs in the process. This irreverents and informative book prepares wannabe comedians with tips and inside information from a seasoned veteran. Photographs.
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Stand-Up Comedy-PB
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John Limon, John Limon, Donald E Pease (Editor)
"Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or Abjection in America" is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciates and analyses the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond theories of the joke, of the comic, and of comedy in general to read stand-up through the lens of literary and cultural theory. Limon argues that ...
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How to Do It Standing Up: The Friars' Club Guide to Being a Comic, a Cut-Up, a Card, a Character or a Clown
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Barry Dougherty, Friars Club, The Friars Club
No one knows more about being funny than The Friars Club, and now they reveal their personal tricks of the trade-and give away their favorite material--in this easy-to-use manual for aspiring comics, comedy writers or just plain show-offs. The funniest men and women in showbiz discuss the art of being funny, and author Barry Dougherty puts it ...
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How to Be a Working Comic: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Stand-Up Comedy
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Dave Schwensen
This funny book about being funny aims to show how aspiring comedians can find a sense of humour and presentation style, market their act and contact agents. It contains interviews with 16 famous stand-up comics including: Jeff Foxworthy, Drew Carey, Carrot Top and others.
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Comedy Improvisation: Exercises & Techniques for Young Actors
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Delton T Horn
Learn the structure behind the spontaneity of comedy improvisation. Includes over 35 performance-tested structures and performance tips.
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Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-Up Comedy
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Franklyn Ajaye
If you want to build a stand-up comedy career, this book is a must read. If you want to write comedy, this book is a must-read. If you simply enjoy comedy ...this book is a must read. Part One offers essential advice about understanding the fundamentals of stand-up, studying other comedians, finding your own style, writing your material, working ...
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The Art of Chicago Improv: Short Cuts to Long-Form Improvisation
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Rob Kozlowski, Kozlowski Rob
Improvisational theatre revolutionized American comedy and Chicago was its home. That city not only nurtured so much of the best work done; it also spawned many different styles that traveled around the country and the world. Experienced improv artist Rob Kozlowski trained at Chicago's Second City and knows firsthand what improv really is and what ...
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The Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy
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Julian Hall
"The Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy" is the ultimate guide to live and television comedy in Britain from the 1980s to the present day. From Ben Elton to Alan Carr, this book profiles fifty of the most influential cult comedy icons and discovers how they became household names. Throughout the book, there are tips from comedians and industry ...
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The Best British Stand-Up and Comedy Routines
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Mike O'Brien (Editor), Bruce Dessau (Introduction by)
With an introduction to each artist, transcripts and audio of the routines and special added extra material bring you the following. Rory Bremner, the best impressionist in the world, does Prince Charles Monty Python's unmatched Dead Parrot Eddie Izzard's bizarre world reaches its height in Cats and Dogs Lenny Henry does Delbert Wilkins, the ...
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The Last Laugh: The World of Stand-Up Comics
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Phil Berger
The first and only book to take readers fully into the bizarre universe of the stand-up comic, from its earliest origins in the antics of Milton Berle and Sid Caesar to today's hottest acts.
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Whose Improv Is It Anyway? Beyond Second City
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Amy E Seham
Drawing on the experiences of working improvisers, Whose Improv provides a never-before-published account of developments beyond the mainstream approach to the genre. Improv-comedy burst onto the scene in the 1950s with Second City's career launches of comedians such as Gilda Radner, John Belushi, and Mike Myers. The legacy of their techniques ...
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Improv Comedy
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Andy Goldberg
Presents the building blocks of an improv comedy -- characterisation, plot and environment -- an extensive series of progressive scene set-ups and exercises, and practical advice on forming and running an improv comedy troupe. Improv Comedy is a definitive course in the practice of this popular theatre genre, as well as a valuable text for writers ...
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