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Step by Step to Stand-Up Comedy by Greg Dean Publisher Comments If you think you're funny, and you want others to think so too, this is the book for you! Greg Dean examines the fundamentals of being funny and offers advice on a range of topics, including: writing creative joke material rehearsing and performing... (read more) Your price: $19.25 New - Trade Paper 
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Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy (Theatre Arts) by Jay Sankey Publisher Comments 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 and perfect your work. Much more than a how-to manual Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy is... (read more) Your price: $38.95 New - Trade Paper
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I Love You More Than You Know: Essays by Jonathan Ames Publisher Comments Jonathan Ames has drawn comparisons across the literary spectrum, from David Sedaris to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Woody Allen to P.G. Wodehouse, and his books, as well as his abilities as a performer, have made him a favorite on the Late Show with David... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Funny: The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Comedy by David Misch Publisher Comments Funny: 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... (read more) Your price: $18.99 New - Trade Paper
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Truth in Comedy: The Manual for Improvisation by Charna Halpern Publisher Comments Who would have ever thought that learning the finer points of improvisation could be such fun? The "Harold, " an innovative improvisational tool, helped Saturday Night Live's Mike Myers and Chris Farley, George Wendt ("Norm" on Cheers) and many other... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Jokes and Their Relations by Elliott Oring Publisher Comments Almost everyone tells and appreciates jokes. Yet the nature of jokes has proved elusive. When asked what they really mean, people tend to laugh off the question, dismissing jokes as meaningless or too obvious to require explanation. Of those who have... (read more) Your price: $38.50 New - Trade Paper
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Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris by Lucian Randall Publisher Comments One of the most enigmatic figures in British comedy, the celebrated and vilified satirist Chris Morris U.S. fans of British comedy--the fans who knew about The Office or Ali G well before they blew up--may already know Chris Morris from his role on The... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Romantic Comedy in Hollywood (87 Edition) by James Harvey Publisher Comments In 1934 four movies—It Happened One Night, Twentieth Century, The Thin Man, and The Gay Divorcee—ushered in the golden age of the Hollywood romantic ("screwball") comedy. Slangy, playful, and "powerfully, glamorously in love with love," the... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Humorists: From Hogarth to Noel Coward (P.S.) by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments In Intellectuals, Paul Johnson offered a fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In Creators, he examined a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. And in Heroes, he brought together a galaxy of commanding figures... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Clown Act Omnibus by Wes Mcvicar Publisher Comments Everything you always wanted to know about clowning (and didn't know whom to ask) is here in this inexpensive, paperback book. We have yet to see any other clown-act book as complete as this. Includes over 200 workable clown acts for beginners... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Comedy Bible: From Stand-Up to Sitcom--The Comedy Writer's Ultimate "How To" Guide by Judy Carter Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt by Muhammad Mustafa Badawi Publisher Comments This book is the first critical survey of modern Egyptian drama during the period of its maturity from the 1930s to the present day. A discussion of the work of Tawfiq al-Hakim is followed by an examination of the less experimental plays of his... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Trade Paper
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Comedy FAQs and Answers: How the Stand-Up Biz Really Works by Dave Schwensen Publisher Comments This guide to the world of stand—up comedy, written in easy—to—use Q&A format, provides current and potential comedians with the no—nonsense advice they need for every stage of their careers. Schwensen's lively book features... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Make 'em Laugh: 35 Years of the Comic Strip, the Greatest Comedy Club of All Time! by Richie Tienken Publisher Comments Once in a lifetime a venue comes along that changes show business dramatically, that fosters growth and camaraderie, experimentation and freedom. The Comic Strip is one of those places, and Make 'Em Laugh is an inside look at how it all happened... (read more) Available October 2012 Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover 
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Stand-Up Comedy: The Book by Judy Carter Publisher Comments 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.... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Postmodern Pooh (06 Edition) by Frederick Crews Publisher Comments A sequel of sorts to the classic (and bestselling) sendup of literary criticism, "The Pooh Perplex <BR>Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, "Postmodern Pooh brilliantly... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Literary Wit by Bruce Michelson Publisher Comments An incisive look at the role of wit in modern literature.... (read more) List Price $17.56 Your price: $15.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Chuzzlewit by Frank J. Morlock Publisher Comments In order to prevent his aged cousin (Old Martin) from leaving his huge fortune to charity, Pecksniff travels from London to America to dissuade the dying man from such a mistake. But Old Martin is far from death's door, and is planning from pure spite to... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $3.54 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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The Legacy of the Wisecrack: Stand-Up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form by Eddie Tafoya Publisher Comments Despite the claim of many a Borscht Belt comic that he is a practitioner of "the world's second-oldest professsion," stand-up comedy is a young and distinctly American literary form. It was not until the last decades of the nineteenth century when... (read more) List Price $22.06 Your price: $19.58 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor by John Morreall Publisher Comments Western philosophy’s traditional assessment of the nature and value of humor has not been kind, as the standard theories made humor look antisocial, irrational, and foolish. It wasn’t until well into the twentieth century that humor gained... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $43.26 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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