Comedy
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The Principles of Comedy Improv: Truths, Tales, and How to Improvise
$25.00 Read moreThe Principles of Comedy Improv is an authoritative handbook for beginners and experts alike. More than just entertainment, improv’s tenets enable you to change every moment of your life. Your guide i… [more below]
- Author: Blank, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 261
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1609388852
- Language: English
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Everyone You Hate Is Going to Die: And Other Comforting Thoughts on Family, Friends, Sex, Love, and More Things That Ruin Your Life
$29.00 Read moreOne of this generation’s hottest and boldest young comedians presents a transgressive and hilarious analysis of all of our dysfunctional relationships, and attempts to point us in the vague direction … [more below]
- Author: Sloss, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0525658149
- Language: English
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Inside Comedy: The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades
$27.95 Read moreThe world of comedy and comedians of the last five decades. By the man the New York Times calls a comic institution himself, the only comedian (twenty-six years in stand-up) to have made Elie Wiesel l… [more below]
- Author: Steinberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0813197562
- Language: English
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The Seagull
$18.95 Read more“Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English.” –James Wood, New Yorker
The Seagull, in this new translation for TCG’s Russian Drama Series, includes lines
- Series: Tcg Classic Russian Drama
- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1559365498
- Language: English
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Poor Helpless Comics!: The Cartoons (and More) of Ed Subitzky
$29.95 Read moreThe first-ever collection of comics by Ed Subitzky–comedy writer, National Lampoon legend, Atari spokesperson, “The Impostor” on The David Letterman Show, and an enduring influence on an entire gener… [more below]
- Author: Subitzky, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 168137787X
- Language: English
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The Perfect Amount of Wrong: The Rise of Alt Comedy on Chicago’s North Side
$24.99 Read moreIn just over a decade, a tiny, do-it-yourself stand-up scene on the North Side of Chicago produced some of the most successful and influential stand-up comedians of their generation. Hannibal Buress,
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Mike Bridenstine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154075
- Language: English
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Live from New York: The Little Guide to Saturday Night Live
$8.95 Add to cartSince Chevy Chase first uttered the phrase “Live from New York, it’s Saturday night,” Saturday Night Live has grown from the vision of Canadian comedian Lorne Michaels to be a cultural institution.
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- Series: Little Books of Film & TV #10
- Author: Hippo!, Orange
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1800692005
- Language: English
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Planet Funny: How Comedy Ruined Everything
$17.00 Add to cartA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
The witty and exuberant New York Times bestselling author and record-setting Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings relays the history of humor in “lively, insightful,- Author: Jennings, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1501100602
- Language: English
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Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times
$20.00 Add to cartWork is a joke. Laughing at it is political.
Humor, Groucho Marx asserted, is “reason gone mad.” For Walter Benjamin, laughter was “the most revolutionary emotion.” In a moment when great numbers of pe… [more below]
- Author: Lane-McKinley, Madeline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1942173709
- Language: English
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We Killed
$25.99 Add to cartNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
We Killed shines in its details and its anecdotes….Well crafted and entertaining.–The Boston Glob
A Very Oral History
With a New Introduction by the Author- Author: Kohen, Yael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1250037786
- Language: English
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Kathy Griffin’s Celebrity Run-Ins
$21.99 Add to cartFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Griffin, an A-Z compendium of her celebrity run-ins, and the jaw-dropping, charming, and sometimes bizarre anecdotes only she can tell about them.
Kathy- Author: Griffin, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1250115647
- Language: English
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Monologues for Kids and Tweens: 100 Original Comedy and Drama Monologues for Young Actors
$14.99 Add to cartMonologues for Kids and Tweens is a collection of 100 original comedy and drama scripts on a wide range of topics. They are easily relatable to young actors’ real-life roles as students, daughters, so
- Author: Kimmel, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: April 11 2019
- ISBN10: 0998151327
- Language: English
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Comedy Writing Self-Taught: The Professional Skill-Building Course in Writing Stand-Up, Sketch, and Situation Comedy
$16.95 Add to cartComedy writing is an acquired skill. No one is born a comedy writer. The desire may be there from an early age, but the techniques must be learned, developed, and honed. Fortunately, the best teachers… [more below]
- Author: Perret, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: January 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1610352203
- Language: English
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Boom Chicago Presents the 30 Most Important Years in Dutch History
$64.93 Add to cart“It’s kind of crazy, the impact on culture so many Boom Chicago alums have had. Boom was where I became my best comedic self: the excitement of Amsterdam, the freedom of that environment, the letting … [more below]
- Author: Moskos, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1636141676
- Language: English
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The Art of Clowning
$39.99 Add to cartThe Art of Clowning is the first book on clowning technique and offers a step-by-step process for actors and other theatrical enthusiasts to discover their inner clown. This fun and accessible guide e… [more below]
- Author: E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: May 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0230339093
- Language: English
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Monty Python Speaks, Revised and Updated Edition: The Complete Oral History
$17.99 Read moreWith a Foreword by John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of its BBC debut, a revised and updated edition of the complete oral history of Monty Python–an insight
- Author: Morgan, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0062866443
- Language: English
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Uncle Vanya (Tcg Edition)
$16.95 Add to cart“Superior to any other Uncle Vanya I’ve read or seen… Baker practices astonishing verbal magic over and over again.” – Clancy Martin, Paris Review
“Strikingly intimate… Free of the stilted or form- Author: Chekhov, Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 1559364475
- Language: English
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Digging Up Mother: A Love Story
$15.99 Add to cartDoug Stanhope is one of the most critically acclaimed and stridently unrepentant comedians of his generation. What will surprise some is that he owes so much of his dark and sometimes uncomfortably ho… [more below]
- Author: Stanhope, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0306825384
- Language: English
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So, Anyway…: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “John Cleese’s memoir is just about everything one would expect of its author–smart, thoughtful, provocative and above all funny. . . . A picture, if you will, of the arti
- Author: Cleese, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0385348266
- Language: English
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Dirty Daddy: The Chronicles of a Family Man Turned Filthy Comedian
$15.99 Add to cart“Hilarious and at times heartbreaking . . .”—Vanity Fair
A New York Times bestseller
Millions of viewers know and love Bob Saget from his role as the sweetly neurotic father Danny Tanner on the smash h
- Author: Saget, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0062274791
- Language: English
