Download or read book Abcs of Stand up Comedy written by Matt Wohlfarth and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go from zero to funny in one book with ABC's of Stand-up Comedy. This quick-hitting guide is essential to any person interested in a career in stand-up comedy.
Download or read book ABC s of Stand Up Comedy 2 0 written by Matt Wohlfarth and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-10 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABC's of Stand up Comedy 2.0 is back with more tips from our best seller ABC's of Stand up Comedy. This book features many new and updated comedy tips to help you go zero to funny in one book!
Download or read book Kitty Flanagan s 488 Rules for Life written by Kitty Flanagan and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 488 Rules for Life is not a self-help book, because it's not you who needs help, it's other people. Whether they're walking and texting, asphyxiating you on public transport with their noxious perfume cloud, or leaving one useless square of toilet paper on the roll, a lot of people just don't know the rules. But thanks to Kitty Flanagan's comprehensive guide to modern behaviour, our world will soon be a much better place. A place where people don't ruin the fruit salad by putting banana in it ... where your co-workers respect your olfactory system and don't reheat their fish curry in the office microwave ... where middle aged men don't have ponytails ... What started as a joke on Kitty Flanagan's popular segment on ABC TV's The Weekly, is now a quintessential reference book with the power to change society. (Or, at least, make it a bit less irritating.) What people are (Kitty Flanagan is) saying about this book: 'You're welcome everyone.' 'Thank god for me.' 'I'd rather be sad and lonely, but right.' 'There's not actually 488 rules in here but it sure feels like it'.
Download or read book The Liberal Redneck Manifesto written by Trae Crowder and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Liberal Rednecks--a three-man stand-up comedy group doing scathing political satire--celebrate all that's good about the South while leading the Redneck Revolution and standing proudly blue in a sea of red. Smart, hilarious, and incisive, the Liberal Rednecks confront outdated traditions and intolerant attitudes, tackling everything people think they know about the South--the good, the bad, the glorious, and the shameful--in a laugh-out-loud funny and lively manifesto for the rise of a New South. Home to some of the best music, athletes, soldiers, whiskey, waffles, and weather the country has to offer, the South has also been bathing in backward bathroom bills and other bigoted legislation that Trae Crowder has targeted in his Liberal Redneck videos, which have gone viral with over 50 million views. Perfect for fans of Stuff White People Like and I Am America (And So Can You), The Liberal Redneck Manifesto skewers political and religious hypocrisies in witty stories and hilarious graphics--such as the Ten Commandments of the New South--and much more! While celebrating the South as one of the richest sources of American culture, this entertaining book issues a wake-up call and a reminder that the South's problems and dreams aren't that far off from the rest of America's"--
Download or read book Standing Up Speaking Out written by Matthew R. Meier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, some of the most celebrated and culturally influential American oratorical performances have come not from political leaders or religious visionaries, but from stand-up comics. Even though comedy and satire have been addressed by rhetorical scholarship in recent decades, little attention has been paid to stand-up. This collection is an attempt to further cultivate the growing conversation about stand-up comedy from the perspective of the rhetorical tradition. It brings together literatures from rhetorical, cultural, and humor studies to provide a unique exploration of stand-up comedy that both argues on behalf of the form’s capacity for social change and attempts to draw attention to a series of otherwise unrecognized rhetors who have made significant contributions to public culture through comedy.
Download or read book The Dark Side of Stand Up Comedy written by Patrice A. Oppliger and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 paradoxical relationship between tragedy and comedy and expose over-generalizations about comic performers’ troubled childhoods, addictions, and mental illnesses. The book is divided into two sections. First, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore comedians’ onstage performances, their offstage lives, and the relationship between the two. The second half of the book focuses on amateur and lesser-known professional comedians who reveal the struggles they face as they attempt to hone successful comedy acts and likable comic personae. The goal of this collection is to move beyond the hackneyed stereotype of the sad clown in order to reveal how stand-up comedy can transform both personal and collective tragedies by providing catharsis through humor.
Download or read book The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z written by Steve Martin and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a rhyming couplet featuring each letter of the alphabet, with such characters as David the dog-faced boy, who dons a derby despite being dirty, and Victor, whose frequent victories have made him vainglorious.
Download or read book Standup Guys written by John Debellis and published by Booklocker.Com Incorporated. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John DeBellis' STAND-UP GUYS: A Generation of Laughs is a comic's memoir that puts the reader on and off stage with a unique group of young comedians: Larry David, Richard Lewis, Richard Belzer, Bill Maher, Gilbert Gottfried, Elayne Boosler, Rita Rudner, Larry Miller, Joe Piscopo, Robert Wuhl, Paul Reiser, Jerry Seinfeld and several of the most neurotic, lovable characters who survived and thrived due to talent, passion, and, most importantly, camaraderie. It's a memoir rich in humor, pathos, and insight.
Download or read book The Everything Guide to Comedy Writing written by Mike Bent and published by Everything. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guy walks into a bar... With this guide, aspiring comics will learn to navigate the complex world of comedy writing. Discover how to tap into your natural sense of humor through real-life examples and hands-on skill-building exercises. 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 the inside scoop on techniques to jump-start your comedy writing career, including how to: Develop comic characters for sketches and scenes Create and polish a standup routine Write for TV and movies Use the web to advance your comedy career Everyone loves a comedian. But breaking into this tough field is no laughing matter. After sharpening your comedy-writing skills with this practical (and funny!) guide, you'll feel comfortable adding humor to everyday situations and may even take a chance on your dream job in show business!
Download or read book Stand Up Comedy written by Judy Carter and published by Dell. This book was released on 2010-03-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think you’re funny, buy this book! Whether you dream of becoming a star . . . A better public speaker . . . A more effective communicator . . . A funnier, happier human being . . . You can learn to leave ‘em laughing! David Letterman learned to do it. Jay Leno learned to do it. Roseanne Barr learned to do it. So can you! Now successful stand-up comic Judy Carter—who went from teaching high school to performing in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Lake Tahoe, and on over 45 major TV shows—gives you the same hands-on, step-by-step instruction she’s taught to students in her comedy workshops. She shows you how to do it: create an act, perform it, make money with it, or apply it to everyday life. Discover: • The formulas for creating comedy material • How to find your own style • The three steps to putting your act together • Rehearsal do’s and don’ts • What to do if you bomb • Ways to punch up your everyday life with humor
Download or read book We Killed written by Yael Kohen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kohen assembles America's most prominent comediennes to piece together an oral history about the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy.
Download or read book The Legacy of the Wisecrack written by Eddie Tafoya and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, enabled by unprecedented prosperity and the right to free expression, that monologists began appearing in American vaudeville halls. Yet even though it has since become an entertainment industry mainstay, stand-up comedy has received precious little scholarly attention. The Legacy of the Wisecrack: Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form looks at the theory of stand-up comedy, its literary dimensions, and its distinctly American qualities as it provides a detailed history of the forces that shaped it. The study concludes with a look at the works of specific comedians such as Steven Wright, whose three decades of performances comprise a single picaresque tale, and Richard Pryor, whose 1982 masterpiece Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip serves as modern America's answer to Dante Aligheri's epic poem, Inferno. The result is one of the first serious treatments of stand-up comedy as a literary form.
Download or read book ABC 2022 11 No 245 written by LiveABC編輯群 and published by 希伯崙股份有限公司. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABC Interactive English No. 245 November, 2022 Contents 每日一句 Running Errands 辦事英語實用句 本月焦點 Bugs and Insects 蟲蟲圖鑑 Bugs in Our World 歡迎光臨蟲蟲世界 安妮信箱 My Favorite Restaurant 我最喜歡的餐廳 短篇故事集 The Count and the Wedding Guest 〈伯爵與婚禮嘉賓〉 活用ABC Asking for Directions 問路實用英語 世界好望角 Clown Doctors Have the Best Medicine 小丑醫生的微笑處方 文法補給站 What Is Everyone Doing? 大家正在做什麼？ Where Are You Going? 你要去哪裡？ 流行最前線 The 2022 FIFA World Cup 令人熱血沸騰的世界盃足球賽 畫中有話 Using a COVID-19 Rapid Test 新冠肺炎快篩記 品格英語 How to Do the Things That You Hate to Do 如何完成討厭的事情 克漏字測驗 World Communication Week: Communication Is an Important Part of Life 世界溝通週：話出心地圖 玩味生活 Solo Camping Is like Nothing Else 享受一個人的露營 悠遊文化 Stand-Up Comedy Is Good for a Laugh 想大笑一場嗎？那就來聽單口喜劇吧！ 環境議題 Whale Sharks: Gentle Giants of the Seas 鯨鯊：海中的溫柔巨人 ABC長知識 Why Is There No Grape Ice Cream? 為什麼沒有葡萄口味的冰淇淋？ 聽說圖寫 Hotel Policy 飯店住宿須知 本月之星 陳零九 Bugs in Our World 歡迎光臨蟲蟲世界 Part A Simon and Heidi are at a pond. 賽門和海蒂在池塘邊。 (Simon = S ; Heidi = H) S: Look at all these dragonflies. We can’t see them at this time back home. H: Really? What bugs can you see then? S: We can see ants, bees, and locusts. They are a kind of grasshopper. H: Are they bigger or smaller than crickets? S: They are bigger, and they can fly. H: Hey, do you have fireflies and cicadas in your home country? S: Sure. We see them in the summer, but we only see cicadas once every 13 years. H: Wow! That’s so different. We see cicadas here every year. Part A 賽門：妳看這些蜻蜓，這個時期在我的家鄉看不到蜻蜓。 海蒂：真的嗎？那你會看到哪些蟲？ 賽門：我們會看到螞蟻、蜜蜂和蝗蟲，蝗蟲是蚱蜢的一種。 海蒂：牠們比蟋蟀大還是小？ 賽門：牠們比較大，而且還會飛。 海蒂：嘿，你的家鄉有螢火蟲和蟬嗎？ 賽門：當然有，我們在夏天會看到那些蟲，不過每十三年才會看到一次蟬。 海蒂：哇！那還真不一樣，我們這裡每年都看得到蟬。 Part B Heidi and Simon are in her kitchen. 海蒂和賽門在海蒂家的廚房裡。 (Heidi = H ; Simon = S) H: Do you smell that smell? It’s really bad. S: Yes. It smells like oil, and it’s coming from around the sink. H: It can’t be oil because I don’t throw it out in the sink. S: OK. Can I take a look under the sink? H: Sure, but be careful. I have many things under there. S: Uh-oh! I see lots of bug droppings, and they’re not from beetles or ladybugs. H: Oh, no! Are they from spiders? I don’t like spiders. S: No. It’s worse. The droppings are from cockroaches. Part B 海蒂：你有聞到那個味道嗎？好臭。 賽門：有，聞起來像是油耗味，而且是從流理台周圍散發出來的。 海蒂：不可能是油，因為我不會把油倒進流理台。 賽門：了解，我可以看一下流理台下方嗎？ 海蒂：當然可以，不過要小心，我在那下面放了很多東西。 賽門：哎呀！我看見很多蟲的排泄物，不是甲蟲或瓢蟲的。 海蒂：喔，不！是蜘蛛的嗎？我不喜歡蜘蛛。 賽門：不是，更糟，這些是蟑螂的排泄物。 Part C Simon and Heidi just entered his place. 賽門和海蒂剛踏進賽門的家。 (Simon = S ; Heidi = H) S: Ouch! Something bit me on my back. H: My guess is a mosquito. Do you want me to put some cream on it? S: Yes, please. It’s starting to get really itchy. H: Hey, something fell out when you pulled up your shirt. S: Oh, I see it. That’s not a mosquito. That’s a spider. H: That’s not good. What do I do for a spider bite? S: First, wash it with warm soapy water. Then, put ice on it. H: OK, I’ll go and get those things ready. Part C 賽門：唉喲！有東西咬我的背。 海蒂：我猜是蚊子，要我幫你塗一點藥膏嗎？ 賽門：好，謝謝，傷口開始變得很癢了。 海蒂：嘿，你把上衣拉高的時候，有東西掉出來了。 賽門：噢，我看到了，那不是蚊子，是一隻蜘蛛。 海蒂：那可糟糕了，蜘蛛咬傷要怎麼處理？ 賽門：首先，用溫熱的肥皂水清洗傷口，接著在上面冰敷。 海蒂：好，我去準備那些東西。
Download or read book Stand up Comedy in Theory Or Abjection in America written by John Limon and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural theory of stand-up comedy.
Download or read book A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar written by Caty Borum Chattoo and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy is a powerful contemporary source of influence and information. In the still-evolving digital era, the opportunity to consume and share comedy has never been as available. And yet, despite its vast cultural imprint, comedy is a little-understood vehicle for serious public engagement in urgent social justice issues – even though humor offers frames of hope and optimism that can encourage participation in social problems. Moreover, in the midst of a merger of entertainment and news in the contemporary information ecology, and a decline in perceptions of trust in government and traditional media institutions, comedy may be a unique force for change in pressing social justice challenges. Comedians who say something serious about the world while they make us laugh are capable of mobilizing the masses, focusing a critical lens on injustices, and injecting hope and optimism into seemingly hopeless problems. By combining communication and social justice frameworks with contemporary comedy examples, authors Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman show us how comedy can help to serve as a vehicle of change. Through rich case studies, audience research, and interviews with comedians and social justice leaders and strategists, A Comedian and an Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice explains how comedy – both in the entertainment marketplace and as cultural strategy – can engage audiences with issues such as global poverty, climate change, immigration, and sexual assault, and how activists work with comedy to reach and empower publics in the networked, participatory digital media age.
Download or read book The Lucy Family Alphabet written by Judith Lucy and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling memoir by one of Australia's best-loved comedians Judith Lucy has been cracking jokes about her parents for much of her career. But when a birth relative's casual comment implied that she must despise them, Judith was shocked. Sure, for years she had been talking about Ann and Tony Lucy like they were one-dimensional Irish nut bags who'd ruined her life, but who – in the end – doesn't love their parents? If only she'd been told before the age of 25 that they weren't actually her parents . . . From 'A is for Adoption to Z is for Zorba, this is the full story of one particular family, shown at their best, at their worst, and every letter in between. 'As raw and as honest as the best memoirs . . . both powerfully sad and hysterically funny.' THE BIG ISSUE 'This is a funny, well-written book; Lucy doesn't just deliver punchlines, she is a sharp observer with a colourful, endearing vocabulary. The result is an unflinching debut that, despite the stories of estrangement and bitterness, is brimming with love.' SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
Download or read book The Standup Comedy Manual written by Ken Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-07 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to write and perform standup comedy in 8-weeks. An at home guide that takes you through a step-by-step process. Learn the inside secrets from a 30-year professional.
