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Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities
by Marian Keyes  Publisher Comments From the acclaimed bestselling author of Sushi for Beginners and Angels comes a collection of personal essays on shopping, writing, moviemaking, motherhood and all the assorted calamities involved in being a savvy woman in the new millennium. Her novels...
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Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America
by Richard Zoglin Publisher Comments What Peter Biskind did for filmmaking, Time magazine critic Richard Zoglin does for comedy in this meticulously researched and hilariously readable account of stand-up comedy in the 1970s. In the rock-and-roll 1970s, a new breed of comic, inspired by...
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Comedy FAQs and Answers: How the Stand-Up Biz Really Works
by Dave Schwensen Synopsis 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 interviews with many of the...
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Horrible Prettiness (91 Edition)
by Robert C. Allen Publisher Comments Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of "British Blondes" brought modern burlesque to the...
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Understanding Media Semiotics
by Marcel Danesi Publisher Comments Media semiotics is a valuable method of focusing on the hidden meanings within media texts. This book offers students an in-depth guide to help them investigate and understand the media using semiotic theory. It assumes little previous knowledge of the...
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Comic Visions : Television Comedy and American Culture (2ND 97 Edition)
by David Marc Synopsis Comic Visions, Second Edition is an update of the most influential critical history of American television comedy....
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Office 101: An Illustrated Guide
by Geoffrey Day-lewis Publisher Comments "If at first you don't succeed . . . destroy all evidence that you tried." --Office 101 A hip, photographically illustrated guide for cubicle slaves everywhere in any business setting, including the millions of office-bound college and high-school...
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Musical Improv Comedy: Creating Songs in the Moment with CD (Audio)
by Michael Pollock Synopsis Clear, everyday language explains each element of an improvised song. Simple building blocks are combined with performance tips to raise a performer's musical improvisation to its highest level. The included CD, featuring cast members from ImprovOlympic...
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
by Alain de Botton 
Publisher Comments As relevant today as they were at the turn of the century, Proust's life and work are transformed here into a no-nonsense guide to, among other things, enjoying your vacation, reviving a relationship, achieving original and uncliched articulation, being...
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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...
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Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-Up Comedy
by Franklyn Ajaye Book News Annotation Comedian Ajaye discusses the art of stand-up comedy and how it requires creating a personal comedic point of view. With a focus upon the various approaches, philosophies, and working experiences of the performers interviewed, he provides advice and...
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Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy (Theatre Arts)
by Jay Sankey Publisher Comments 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 and perfect your work....
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The Comic World of the Marx Brothers' Movies: Anything Further Father?
by Maurice Charney Synopsis The Comic World of the Marx Brothers' Movies sees their movies in the context of comic theory and practice. In other words, what kinds of comedy do these movies present?: satire, farce, parody, nonsense, and a great deal of punning and verbal humor. The...
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Comedy Writing Secrets 2ND Edition
by Melvin Helitzer Synopsis Now revised, this comprehensive guide to writing, selling and performing all types of comedy includes comments, advice, gags and routines from top comics. Aspiring comics can learn how to sharpen their comedic talent and turn it into a well-paying...
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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....
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Postmodern Pooh (06 Edition)
by Frederick Crews Synopsis A sequel of sorts to the classic (and bestselling) sendup of literary criticism, "The Pooh Perplex Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, "Postmodern Pooh brilliantly parodies...
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The Last Laugh: The World of Stand-Up Comics
by Phil Berger Synopsis The Last Laugh is the first and only book to take readers fully into the bizarre universe of the stand-up comic, from its earliest origins in the antics of Milton Berle and Sid Caesar to today's hottest acts. In his pioneering history, Phil Berger offers...
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Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor
by G Legman Publisher Comments Why do people tell dirty jokes? And what is it about a joke's dirtiness that makes it funny? G. Legman was perhaps the foremost scholar of the dirty joke, and as legions of humor writers and comedians know, his Rationale of the Dirty Joke remains the...
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Abe Lincoln's Legacy of Laughter: Humorous Stories by and about Abraham Lincoln
by Paul M. Zall Synopsis During the Civil War, it was said that two ladies on a train were discussing the likely outcome of the conflict. One insisted Jeff Davis would win the war because he was a praying man. The other replied, But Abram's a praying man. But, said the first...
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Tap Dancing: Rhythm in Their Feet
by Heather Rees Publisher Comments Tap Dancing: Rhythm in Their Feet explores a fascinating form of dance. Dance teacher Heather Rees first offers insight into the history of tap and the influence of some of the great "foot percussion" artists. She then delineates the principles of rhythm...
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