Comedy and stand-up Books

Rob Auton follows the success of In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh with a deeper darker, richer collection of his trademark micro stories and poems from the other side. Featuring work from the two Edinburgh shows that have earned him...

With two hit Edinburgh Fringe shows under his belt, Bang Said The Gun's Rob Auton delivers his debut collection of poems and stories. In Heaven The Onions Make You Laugh captures the charming, kooky, sideways look at the ordinary and the...

Based on interviews with the cast and crew, this book goes behind the scenes of the successful space comedy, Red Dwarf. With chapters on every episode, it reveals how the series was made, and tells the stories of what happened on and off set. Why did...

True to Goldoni's mixture of comic wit and farce, the plot is a breathtakingly fast succession of twists and turns which only unravel in the very final lines with a surprise ending.Two friends are in love with the same young woman. Neither wants to place...

How DO you avoid the 'nightmare scenario' of having two open tubs of margarine in your fridge? Throw one tub away, or give it to a friend or neighbour? If the remedy were that simple no one would have bothered to write a book about it, would they? John...

This expanded and revised edition has a new foreword by The Late Show host Stephen Colbert, additional advice and tips for success, and a full reproduction of Mick Napier's web journal from his time directing the famous show Paradigm Lost for The Second...

Far more than simply an overview of improv comedy, this book helps actors, writers and comedians learn the basics as taught in all the major comedy schools. First, the do's and don'ts of the Comedy Improv Commandments. The concepts that, when...

Want to learn the improv techniques that helped Mike Myers, Chris Farley, John Belushi, and many others along the road to TV and film stardom? Then let two esteemed founders of long-form improvisational theatre, Del Close and Charna Halpern, teach you...

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of theatrically-released spinoff films derived from British radio and television sitcoms. Regularly maligned as the nadir of British film production and marginalised as a last...

This edited book brings together scholarly chapters on linguistic aspects of humour in literary and non-literary domains and contexts in different parts of the world. Previous scholarly engagements and theoretical postulations on humour and the comic...

This book, first of its kind in the Indian context, brings together both a theoretical understanding of various aspects of the humour, aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy, and case studies of various forms of stand-up comedy in India. This volume...

This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs. Proverbs are by no means fossilized texts but are adaptable to different times and changed values. While anti-proverbs...

Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games. This pioneering book collects chapters from a diverse group of scholars, covering a wide range of approaches and examining the relationship...

This book focuses on the "dark side" of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who perform comedy, join together to contemplate the...

The Routledge Circus Studies Reader offers an absorbing critical introduction to this diverse and emerging field. It brings together the work of over 30 scholars in this discipline, including Janet Davis, Helen Stoddart and Peta Tait, to highlight and...

Jerry. George. Elaine. Kramer. We've followed their misadventures for nearly ten years on Thursday nights. Here, finally, are the scripts of the first two seasons that will take you back to the beginning of "Seinfeld." Featuring the first 17 episodes...

Turkish German comedy culture and the lived realities of Turkish Muslims in GermanyComedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with questions of German national identity and Turkish German migration. The German majority society...

... Que veux-tu ? le Mardi gras n'arrive pas tous les jours, et c'est pour vous faire passer votre soirée un peu plus gaîment, que je vous ai raconté aujourd'hui deux combats navals de plus qu'à l'ordinaire...

DESCRIPTIONThe Christmas Tree Angel Radio Drama is a delightful play-within-a-play that's suitable for all ages. It can be produced with minimal rehearsal, a small cast, and a small budget. The story begins on Christmas Eve when the Brown family receives...

Branislav Nusic iza sebe je ostavio impozantan knjizevni opus. Iako je pisao i romane, price, eseje i drame, najprepoznatljiviji je po svojim komedijama. Medju njima znacajno mesto zauzimaju i dve drustvene komedije napisane u trenutku kada se cinilo da...

In 1958, a down-on-his-luck songwriter with the unlikely name of Ross Bagdasarian (1919-1972), plunged the last of his family's savings on a multi-speed tape recorder and created two beloved and memorable songs: “Witch Doctor” and...

Written by a scholar of satire and politics, Trump Was a Joke explains why satire is an exceptional foil for absurd political times and why it did a particularly good job of making sense of Trump.Covering a range of comedic interventions, Trump Was a...

Many people say that in addition to pills, capsules, ointments, and suppositories, laughter is the best medicine. However, the solemn places that dispense medicaments are often bereft of lively humor. Instead, the field of retail pharmacy can be fraught...

""The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza"" by George Bernard Shaw is a satirical play set in a fictional future Britain. It centers on the political power struggle between King Magnus and his Prime Minister, Proteus. Through sharp humor and irony, Shaw...

One Woman's Life" Part fourth, penned by Robert Herrick and published in 1913, delves deeper into the life of Mary Wakefield, the resilient protagonist navigating a changing world at the turn of the 20th century. At its core, the novel explores Mary's...

"The Rivals" is a five-act comedy play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It premiered on January 17, 1775, at the Covent Garden Theatre in London. Known for its witty dialogue, humorous characters, and satirical take on romantic relationships and...

The Old Card part 1 is a novel written by Roland Pertwee in 1919. The story revolves around the life of a wealthy businessman, John Brent, who is known for his love of collecting antique playing cards. The protagonist is a man of great wealth, but he is...

The Old Card part II is a novel written by Roland Pertwee in 1919. The story revolves around the life of a wealthy businessman, John Brent, who is known for his love of collecting antique playing cards. The protagonist is a man of great wealth, but he is...

Au cours d’une fin de semaine passée dans son château du Perche, le richissime parvenu Isidore Lechat, qui dispose d’un grand quotidien indispensable à ses affaires, en traite deux qui sont susceptibles de renforcer encore...

Stand Up Comedy with Spirit, Unbowdlerized is a hilarious and thought-provoking collection of stand-up routines in the spirit of Bill Hicks. From dissecting modern life and social situations to exploring pop culture and everyday absurdities, Jack...

No fairy tales is about three couples who are different stages in there lives. The couples have to overcome obstacles such as divorce, affairs and health scares. With the help of crazy friends and amazing new ones these couples overcome all the obstacles...

In order to prevent his aged cousin (Old Martin) from leaving his huge estate 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...

This book is the first nearly complete (poetry and verse omitted) translation of the only known personal manuscript notes of a Sixteenth Century Commedia dell'Arte performer. This is a very important work for anyone interested in what such actors said...

A "domestic phantasmagoria with song and dance," John Crutchfield's My Crazy My Love, set in a small, present-day Southern Appalachian town, in a sprawling house in condemnable disrepair, tells the raucous comic story of one family's failure to know...

A comedy stage play by Kara Emily Krantz.Charlotte and Eugene live a quiet, no-nonsense lifestyle surrounded by sudoku and argyle. Robert and Bella are boisterous and messy and ridiculously in love. Then there's the neighbor, Suzanne, who basically...

In 411 BC, Greek playwright Aristophanes penned Lysistrata. The play tells the story of a group of courageous women who devise a unique strategy for dealing with their government's fiscal mismanagement and for ending the Peloponnesian War, which had been...

Essays that illustrate how humor transformed 9/11 politics and 9/11 transformed humorWith essays by: Gavin Benke Arthur Asa Berger Ted Gournelos Viveca S. Greene David Gurney David Holloway Lanita Jacobs Giselinde Kuipers Paul Lewis David Monje Michael...

THE FIRST EXAMINATION OF STAND-UP COMEDY THROUGH THE LENS OF FOLKLOREIn A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, leveraging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance...

«Une aventure du chevalier de Grammont » est une comédie en trois actes et en vers par Mme Sophie Gay. Elle fut représentée sur le théâtre-Français le 5 mars 1822.

This book is essentially about me - me midst the Goons!      Me! Me! Me!      ( How disgusting! What's this fellow going on about? )     It is an unashamed celebration...

If you've ever dreamed of making people laugh and captivating audiences with your unique brand of humor, then "HowExpert Guide to Stand-Up Comedy" is the ultimate resource to help you achieve your comedy goals. This comprehensive guide covers every...

Every year, tens of thousands of acting students dip their toes into the world of "improv comedy." From Harvard University, the Immediate Gratification Players bring a new way to learn this popular art form. Written from the student's perspective, the...

Up the Doon is A hilarious and heart-warming new comedy written for television and set on Burns' "banks an' braes o' bonnie Doon". It features Alec Gourlay, a retired coal miner, who was abandoned on Smiler's mother's doorstep when he was four, clutching...

Improvisation is a valuable skill for any performer, even if you plan to use only fully scripted material. There is always a possibility of something going wrong, and improvisation can dig you out of the hole. Likewise, comedy is a great training ground...

Seismic shifts in the theatrical meanings of The Merry Wives of Windsor have taken place across the centuries as Shakespeare's frequently performed play has relocated to Windsor's across the world, journeying along the production/ adaptation/...