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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: comedy, henri, bergson, laughter, meredith, essay, george
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1980-03-01
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0801823277
ISBN-13: 9780801823275
Bergson’s essay looks at comedy within a wider field of vision, focusing on laughter and on what makes us laugh. His study examines comic characters and comic acts, comedy in literature and in children’s games, comedy as high art and base entertainment, to develop a psychological and philosophers theory of the mainsprings of comedy.
Author: Judy Carter
Publisher: Fireside
Keywords: comedy, ultimate, guide, writer, sitcom, bible, stand
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2001-08-07
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0743201256
ISBN-13: 9780743201254
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 fir
Author: Bill Majeski
Publisher: Meriwether Publishing Ltd.
Keywords: comedy, actors, student, professional, satirical, doubletalk, duets
Number of Pages: 210
Published: 1990-04-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0916260666
ISBN-13: 9780916260668
Concise, incisive and very funny! These professional-level satirical dialogs are an actor’s delight. The characters are exaggerated, talking cartoons. Each short skit gets big laughs, because the dialog bites, stabs and tickles with wit and insight. Sacred cows are skinned alive. Simple staging and costumes. Excellent for drama competitions. Choose from fifty comedy duets. Arranged for two men, two women, one man and one woman or optional men or women. More of the best from a top comedy writer.
Authors:Dante Alighieri, Robert M. Durling, Robert Tu
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: divine, dante, alighieri, comedy, series, reprint, inferno, volume
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 1997-03-06
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0195087445
ISBN-13: 9780195087444
The first volume of this new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Inferno, and, on facing pages, Robert Durling’s new prose translation, which brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante’s extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor, and its penetrating analyses of the psychology of sin and the ills that plague society. Readers will prize the directness and clarity, the rich expressiveness, and the rigorous accuracy of this contemporary prose translation, which preserves to an unparalleled degree the order and emphases of Da
Author: Alice Orndorff
Publisher: French
Keywords: one, comedy
Number of Pages: 20
Published: 1977-03-03
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0573623899
ISBN-13: 9780573623899
Author: Paul Rya
Publisher: Back Stage Book
Keywords: funny, serious, getting, comedy, art
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 0823084671
ISBN-13: 9780823084678
Want to know a secret? Sssshhhh. Great comedy actors arent born...theyre made. Who makes them? Paul Ryan, thats who. Now Ryan, the top comedy acting coach in Hollywood, shares his secrets in The Art of Comedy, a step-by-step guide for turning actors into comedy actors. Packed with exercises, The Art of Comedy explains exactly how to build a character, how to incorporate improvisation into a written scene, where to turn for comic inspiration, and how to increase your comedic imagination. Also included is a technical analysis of comedy greats from Milton Berle to Jerry Seinfeld. For anyone wh
Author: Jay Sankey
Publisher: Routledge/Theatre Arts Book
Keywords: comedy, stand, art, zen
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 1998-04-23
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0878300740
ISBN-13: 9780878300747
The sound of one hand clapping may be the performer’s worst nightmare. In this engaging and disarmingly frank book, comic Jay Sankey spills the beans, explaining not only how to write and perform stand-up comedy, but how to improve an perfect your work. This unique insider’s look explores the finer points of stand-up comedy, including sources for ideas and writing the jokes; taking the stage, delivery and timing; dealing with nerves; breaking in new material;relating to the audience; marketing and self-promotion; and much more. Sankey enriches the understanding of anyone who is thi
