The Comedy Cash-In Book Book
Author: Ben Baker
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published:
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 1326826417
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The Coloring Book
Author: Colin Quinn
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2015-06-09
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1455507601
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom former SNL "Weekend Update" host and legendary stand-up Colin Quinn comes a controversial and laugh-out-loud investigation into cultural and ethnic stereotypes. Colin Quinn has noticed a trend during his decades on the road-that Americans' increasing political correctness and sensitivity have forced us to tiptoe around the subjects of race and ethnicity altogether. Colin wants to know: What are we all so afraid of? Every ethnic group has differences, everyone brings something different to the table, and this diversity should be celebrated, not denied. So why has acknowledging these cultural differences become so taboo? In The Coloring Book, Colin, a native New Yorker, tackles this issue head-on while taking us on a trip through the insane melting pot of 1970s Brooklyn, the many, many dive bars of 1980s Manhattan, the comedy scene of the 1990s, and post-9/11 America. He mixes his incredibly candid and hilarious personal experiences with no-holds-barred observations to definitively decide, at least in his own mind, which stereotypes are funny, which stereotypes are based on truths, which have become totally distorted over time, and which are actually offensive to each group, and why. As it pokes holes in the tapestry of fear that has overtaken discussions about race, The Coloring Book serves as an antidote to our paralysis when it comes to laughing at ourselves . . . and others.
Funny: The Book
Author: David Misch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012-04-01
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1557839662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFunny: The Book is an entertaining look at the art of comedy, from its historical roots to the latest scientific findings, with diversions into the worlds of movies (Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers), television (The Office), prose (Woody Allen, Robert Benchley), theater (The Front Page), jokes and stand-up comedy (Richard Pryor, Steve Martin), as well as personal reminiscences from the author's experiences on such TV programs as Mork and Mindy. With allusions to the not-always-funny Carl Jung, George Orwell, and Arthur Koestler, Funny: The Book explores the evolution, theories, principles, and practice of comedy, as well as the psychological, philosophical, and even theological underpinnings of humor, coming to the conclusion that (Spoiler Alert!) Comedy is God.
Stand-Up Comedy
Author: Judy Carter
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2010-03-03
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0307575209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf you think you’re funny, buy this book! Whether you dream of becoming a star . . . A better public speaker . . . A more effective communicator . . . A funnier, happier human being . . . You can learn to leave ‘em laughing! David Letterman learned to do it. Jay Leno learned to do it. Roseanne Barr learned to do it. So can you! Now successful stand-up comic Judy Carter—who went from teaching high school to performing in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Lake Tahoe, and on over 45 major TV shows—gives you the same hands-on, step-by-step instruction she’s taught to students in her comedy workshops. She shows you how to do it: create an act, perform it, make money with it, or apply it to everyday life. Discover: • The formulas for creating comedy material • How to find your own style • The three steps to putting your act together • Rehearsal do’s and don’ts • What to do if you bomb • Ways to punch up your everyday life with humor
The Comedy Bible
Author: Judy Carter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-05-04
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 0743219023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJudy Carter, guru to aspiring comedy writers and stand-up comics, tells all about the biz of being funny and writing funny in this bright, entertaining, and totally practical guide on how to draw humor from your life and turn it into a career. Do you think you’re funny? Do you want to turn your sense of humor into a career? If the answer is yes, then Judy Carter’s The Comedy Bible is for you. The guru to aspiring stand-up comics provides the complete scoop on being—and writing—funny for money. If you’ve got a sense of humor, you can learn to make a career out of comedy, says Judy Carter. Whether it’s creating a killer stand-up act, writing a spec sitcom, or providing jokes for radio or one-liners for greeting cards, Carter provides step-by-step instructions in The Comedy Bible. She helps readers first determine which genre of comedy writing or performing suits them best and then directs them in developing, refining, and selling their work. Using the hands-on workbook format that was so effective in her bestselling first book, Stand-Up Comedy: The Book, Carter offers a series of day-by-day exercises that draw on her many years as a successful stand-up comic and the head of a nationally known comedy school. Also included are practical tips and advice from today’s top comedy professionals—from Bernie Brillstein to Christopher Titus to Richard Lewis. She presents the pros and cons of the various comedy fields—stand-up, script, speech and joke writing, one-person shows, humor essays—and shows how to tailor your material for each. She teaches how to find your “authentic” voice—the true source of comedy. And, perhaps most important, Carter explains how to take a finished product to the next level—making money—by pitching it to a buyer and negotiating a contract. Written in Carter’s unique, take-no-prisoners voice, The Comedy Bible is practical, inspirational, and funny.
Boggs
Author: Lawrence Weschler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000-11-15
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780226893969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoggs: A Comedy of Values teases out these transactions and their sometimes dramatic legal consequences, following Boggs on a larkish, though at the same time disconcertingly profound, econo-philosophic chase. For in a madcap Socratic fashion, Boggs is raising all sorts of truly fundamental questions - what is it that we value in art, or, for that matter, in money? Indeed, how do we place a value on anything at all? And in particular, why do we, why should we, how can we place such trust in anything as confoundingly insubstantial as paper money?
Based on a True Story
Author: Norm Macdonald
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016-09-20
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0812993632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Driving, wild and hilarious” (The Washington Post), here is the incredible “memoir” of the legendary actor, gambler, raconteur, and Saturday Night Live veteran. When Norm Macdonald, one of the greatest stand-up comics of all time, was approached to write a celebrity memoir, he flatly refused, calling the genre “one step below instruction manuals.” Norm then promptly took a two-year hiatus from stand-up comedy to live on a farm in northern Canada. When he emerged he had under his arm a manuscript, a genre-smashing book about comedy, tragedy, love, loss, war, and redemption. When asked if this was the celebrity memoir, Norm replied, “Call it anything you damn like.”
How to Be a Gold Digger
Author: Tyler Moses
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2017-08-04
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9781522024088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBecoming a gold digger is not as simple or convenient as it might sound. Rather than seeming the easy choice, if you have the right-sized assets and come to bed eyes, gold digging is in fact a craft that needs to be highly-toned and practised in order for you to be able to reap the rewards of richness and luxury. There are so many angles and pitfalls to consider because, even if you think you look the part, you have to succeed in beating the competition. Every man out there with a hefty wallet will have a score of women after him, all hoping to enjoy their time in his fortune and then taking most of it in a beautiful divorce. There will be skilled and unskilled opponents, but you will have to defeat them all. This book offers you the expertise to prune and prepare yourself to be the one that prevails, advising on all the skills you need to acquire and how to go about choosing your prey. Gold digging demands a perfectly orchestrated performance and, considering that it is your future at stake, you don't want to leave a stone unturned in being the best that you can be. A Comedy, Sarcastic, Tongue In Cheek Humour Book Not for the easily offended!
The Book with No Pictures
Author: B. J. Novak
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2014-09-30
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 0803741715
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA #1 New York Times bestseller, this innovative and wildly funny read-aloud by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. Novak will turn any reader into a comedian—a perfect gift for any special occasion! You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . . BLORK. Or BLUURF. Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or just a list of astonishingly goofy sounds like BLAGGITY BLAGGITY and GLIBBITY GLOBBITY. Cleverly irreverent and irresistibly silly, The Book with No Pictures is one that kids will beg to hear again and again. (And parents will be happy to oblige.)
Comedy at the Edge
Author: Richard Zoglin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2009-02-10
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1582346259
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurveys the stand-up comedy of the 1970s, citing the contributions of celebrity comics, from George Carlin and Richard Pryor to Robin Williams and Andy Kaufman, in an account that also evaluates the roles played by such clubs as Catch a Rising Star, the Improv, and the Comedy Store.
