Author: John S. Weld
Publisher: State University of New York Pre
Keywords: comedy, romantic, elizabethan, studies, meaning
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 1975-06-01
List price: $29.50
ISBN-10: 0873952782
ISBN-13: 9780873952781
Author: Bernard Slade
Publisher: Samuel French Inc Plays
Keywords: comedy, acts, three, romantic
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 1981-08
List price: $3.00
ISBN-10: 0573615047
ISBN-13: 9780573615047
Author: Joseph Hayes
Publisher: French
Keywords: comedy, acts, three, impolite
Number of Pages: 93
Published: 1977
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0573610843
ISBN-13: 9780573610844
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: Mike Bent
Publisher: Adams Media
Keywords: everything, comedy, succeed, series, world, need, stand, guide, writing, sketch
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-08-18
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1605501689
ISBN-13: 9781605501680
A guy walks into a bar . . . With this guide, aspiring comics will learn to navigate the complex world of comedy writing. Aspiring comics discover how to tap into their natural sense of humor through real-life examples and hands-on skill-building exercises. They?ll learn the best ways to come up with ideas and write comedy that gets laughs?every time! Mike Bent, an accomplished stand-up comedian and teacher, provides readers with the inside scoop on techniques to jump-start their comedy writing careers, including how to:Develop comic characters for sketches and scenesCreate and polish a standu
Author: Gary Poole
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: comedy, quotes, top, programs, jokes, guide, diary, researcher, radio, actual
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2001-07-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0786409681
ISBN-13: 9780786409686
This book is a real find-for those who enjoy radio nostalgia but more importantly for scholars of broadcasting. From 1947 to 1950 while listening to such voices as Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, and Jimmy Durante, and shows like Fiber McGee & Molly, Amos ’n’ Andy, Blondie, and You Bet Your Life, the author was writing down jokes, gags, one-liners and quotations. In that short time he had filled 11 spiral notebooks. Fifty years later in a labor of love, the author painstakingly transferred those childhood notes into this invaluable-in fact, undoubtably
Authors:Dante Alighieri, Robert M. Durling,
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
