The French Humorists
The French Humorists

Author: Walter Besant

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-06-17

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 3368826166

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Vive la Revolution
Vive la Revolution

Author: Mark Steel

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0743208056

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For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel, bestselling author of REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL, the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when ordinary people changed the world and became extraordinary. It deserves better jokes than that. In this revolutionary new book, Steel banishes stuffiness from history, telling us what happened in France between the storming of the Bastille and the rise of Napoleon, bringing to life the people who made them happen. His account is dominated by bizarre events and splendid characters, from the famously odd Robespierre, Danton and Thomas Paine, to the less well known Drouet, the local postman who arrested the fleeing King because he recognised him as the man off of the money. VIVE LA REVOLUTION is an uproariously serious work of history - brilliantly funny and insightful, it puts the peculiarity of individual people back at the centre of the story.

Old Jewish Comedians
Old Jewish Comedians

Author: Drew Friedman

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2006-10-18

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1560977418

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This comprehensive collection of portraiture of comedians born before 1930 includes the famous (Milton Berle, Groucho Marx, Jerry Lewis, Mel Brooks, Jack Benny), the not-so-famous (Benny Rubin, Shelly Berman) and the largely unknown (Al Kelly, Menasha Skulnik). The Reuben Award-winning Friedman presents a thorough visual history of these greatest Borscht-Belt comedians.

Encyclopedia of British Humorists
Encyclopedia of British Humorists

Author: Steven H. Gale

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 690

ISBN-13: 9780824059903

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Mark Twain, American Humorist
Mark Twain, American Humorist

Author: Tracy Wuster

Publisher: University of Missouri Press

Published: 2017-12-01

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 0826274110

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Mark Twain, American Humorist examines the ways that Mark Twain’s reputation developed at home and abroad in the period between 1865 and 1882, years in which he went from a regional humorist to national and international fame. In the late 1860s, Mark Twain became the exemplar of a school of humor that was thought to be uniquely American. As he moved into more respectable venues in the 1870s, especially through the promotion of William Dean Howells in the Atlantic Monthly, Mark Twain muddied the hierarchical distinctions between class-appropriate leisure and burgeoning forms of mass entertainment, between uplifting humor and debased laughter, and between the literature of high culture and the passing whim of the merely popular.