Women and comedy : history, theory, practice / edited by Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon and Sean Zwagerman.

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Poking a dead frog : conversations with today's top comedy writers / Mike Sacks. by Sacks, Mike

Table of Contents: “…Brooks -- Pure, hard-core advice / Megan Amram (Parks and Recreation) -- Interview: Peg Lynch (Ethel and Albert) -- Writing for Seinfeld / Peter Mehlman -- Pure, hard-core advice / Paul F. Tomkins (Mr. Show, Best Week Ever, Bob's Burgers) -- Interview: Adam McKay (Saturday Night Live, Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers) -- Two hundred essential movies every comedy writer should see / Bill Hader -- Pure, hard-core advice / Scott Jacobson (The Daily Show, Bob's Burgers) -- Interview: Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, The Heartbreak Kid, Stir Crazy, Splash) -- Writing jokes for award shows / Bruce Vilanch -- Pure, hard-core advice / Kay Cannon (30 Rock, New Girl, Pitch Perfect) -- Interview: Carol Kolb (The Onion, Community) -- Choosing headlines at The Onion / Will Tracy -- Pure, hard-core advice / Gabe Delahaye (Videogum, This American Life, Funny or Die) -- Interview: Glen Charles (Taxi, Cheers) -- Pure, hard-core advice / Marc Maron (WTF with Marc Maron, Maron, Conan, Late Show with David Letterman) -- Interview: George Saunders (Pastoralia, In Persuasion Nation, Tenth of December) -- Finding a literary agent for your humor book / Byrd Leavell (Waxman Leavell Literary Agency) -- Pure, hard-core advice / Dave Hill (The New York Times, This American Life, Tasteful Nudes) -- Interview: Tom Scharpling (The Best Show on WFMU, Monk) -- Writing for radio / Bob Elliott (Bob & Ray) -- Pure, hard-core advice / Amy Poehler (Saturday Night Live, Parks and Recreation) -- Interview: Roz Chast (The New Yorker) -- How to be funny as a journalist / Henry Alford, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The New Yorker) -- Pure, hard-core advice / Patton Oswalt (Feelin' Kind of Patton, Big Fan, Young Adult, Zombie Spaceship, Wasteland, Silver Screen Fiend) -- Interview: Daniel Clowes (Ghost World, David Boring, Eightball, Wilson) -- Writing humor for children / Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events) -- Pure, hard-core advice / Anthony Jeselnik (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, The Jeselnik Offensive) -- Interview: Adam Resnick (Late Night with David Letterman, Get a Life, Cabin Boy) -- Writing a TV-series bible / Paul Feig (Freaks and Geeks, Arrested Development, Bridesmaids, The Heat) -- Pure, hard-core advice / Stephen Merchant (The Office, Extras, An Idiot Abroad, Hello Ladies) -- Dan Guterman (The Onion, Colbert Report, Community) -- Working as a Hollywood script doctor / Alan Spencer -- Pure, hard-core advice / Mike DiCenzo (The Onion, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon) -- Interview: Mel Brooks (The Producers, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein) -- The end: what laughter looks like / Edward Jessen.…”
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The laugh makers : stand-up comedy as art, business and life-style / Robert A. Stebbins. by Stebbins, Robert A., 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 An Art Is Born -- 2 Stand-up Comedy Comes to Canada -- 3 Comedy Club Comedy -- 4 So You Think You're Funny -- 5 Becoming a Comic -- 6 The Road -- 7 The Comedy Business -- Appendix: Interview Guide for Professional Comics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y…”
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We had a little real estate problem : the unheralded story of Native Americans in comedy / Kliph Nesteroff. by Nesteroff, Kliph

Table of Contents: “…Wrestles his father's shadow -- Charlie Hill orders a ventriloquist dummy -- Brian Bahe goes onstage twelve times a week -- Davy Crockett brainshwashes the kids -- Lucas Brown eyes sells a sitcom pilot -- Charlie Hill gets inspired by Bob Newhart and other political radicals -- Everyone is shocked to read the news about the Kiowa sensation of the Las Vegas strip -- Charlie Hill can't stop farting -- The title of F-Troop represents the f-word -- Williams and Ree perform for thirteen people at the Holiday Inn -- Charlie Hill and the bearded comedian in his rusty, red truck -- Williams and Ree are desperate to get on Carson -- Charlie Hill asks Barney Miller to free Leonard Peltier -- Jackie Keliiaa thinks, "Holy shit, this is amazing." -- Someone calls the cops on the 1491s -- Charlie Hill remembers the swimming number with Joe Namath -- Larry Omaha investigaties a foul-mouthed parrot -- Terry Ree becomes the first (and last) Native comedian on Hee-Haw -- Ryan Mcmahon has a life changing experience in Winnipeg (of all places) -- Charlie Hill isn't offered anything but crap -- The 1491s reluctantly agree to do a Shakespeare festival -- Sierra Ornelas sells sitcoms the way she sold jewelry at the Santa Fe Indian Market -- Vincent Craig performs on the back of a flatbed truck in rural Arizona -- Isiah Yazzie does improv for an empty room in Shiprock -- Howie Miller does impressions. …”
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Yesterday's clowns : the rise of film comedy / by Frank Manchel. by Manchel, Frank

Time flies / Bill Cosby ; introduction by Alvin F. Poussaint. by Cosby, Bill, 1937-

The catharsis of comedy / Dana F. Sutton. by Sutton, Dana Ferrin

Face to face. director, Amanda Crayden ; producer, David Herman ; BBC.

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Ancient comedy : the war of the generations / Dana F. Sutton. by Sutton, Dana Ferrin

Behind the Laughs : Community and Inequality in Comedy. by Jeffries, Michael P.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Lights; 1 Chemistry of a Comedian; 2 From Funny to Family; 3 Succeeding at Not Failing; 4 Celebrity in the Making; 5 Privilege, Patriarchy, and Performance; Curtains; Appendix; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.…”
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Secret life of Muslims. director, Joshua Seftel.

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Life studies of comedy writers : creating humor / William F. Fry and Melanie Allen ; with a new introduction by William F. Fry. by Fry, William F.

Comédies. by De Banville, Théodore

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Female varieties : gender and cultural hierarchy on the Keith vaudeville circuit, 1890-1925 / M. Alison Kibler. by Kibler, M. Alison

Subjects: “…B.F. Keith (Firm) nr 92023338…”

Childhood / Bill Cosby ; introduction by Alvin F. Poussaint. by Cosby, Bill, 1937-

Curb your enthusiasm and alternative approaches to the sitcom : industry, ideology, and ethnicity / by Nicholas F. Romanow. by Romanow, Nicholas F.

Shakespeare's Comedies of Love. by Bamford, Karen

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: CONTEXTS FOR SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES OF LOVE -- The Comedy of Love and the London Lord Mayor's Show -- A 'Pennyworth' of Marital Advice: Bachelors and Ballad Culture in Much Ado About Nothing -- Shakespeare's Comedies and American Club Women -- PART TWO: LOVE IN SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES -- 'Five thousand year a boy': Love as Arrested Development -- Love's Labour's Lost and Won -- Affecting Desire in Shakespeare's Comedies of Love -- A Spirit of Giving in A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Love in the Contact Zone: Gender, Culture, and Race in The Merchant of Venice -- The Unity of Twelfth Night -- The Baby in the Handbag: 'Family Matters' in Shakespeare -- PART THREE: SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES OF LOVE ON THE CONTEMPORARY STAGE -- 'Songs of Apollo': Love's Labour's Lost in 1961 -- Smitten: Staging Love at First Sight at The Stratford Festival -- Romancing The Shrew: Recuperating a Comedy of Love -- Love in a Naughty World: Modern Dramatic Adaptations of The Merchant of Venice -- Staging the Jew: Playing with the Text of The Merchant of Venice -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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The comic theatre of Greece and Rome / F. H. Sandbach. by Sandbach, F. H.

A midsummer night's dream / edited by Judith M. Kennedy and Richard F. Kennedy.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's Bernice bobs her hair / producer, Paul R. Gurian ; teleplay/director, Joan Micklin Silver ; William Dern Associates ; Center for Understanding Media.

Subjects: “…Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott), 1896-1940 Film adaptations.…”