Comedy and stand-up

This collection is the first to focus on the transgressive and transformative power of American female humorists.

On October 20, 1882, future actress Margaret Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York.

This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs.

This book explores closely related aspects of the historical study of humour.

Video Games and Comedy is the first edited volume to explore the intersections between comedy and video games.

Comedy in Crises provides a novel contribution to an emerging comedy studies field, offering a fresh approach and understanding toward both the motivation and reception of humour in diverse contemporary art contexts.

An exciting history of the improv group you've never heard of that changed comedy in America-this is the story of Boom Chicago in Amsterdam as told by its founders and most famous alumni.

Nach Deutschland mit dem Comedy-Visum – eine verrückte Einwanderungsgeschichte, ungewöhnlich und sympathisch.

The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America.

This book explores comic performance in Pakistan through the vibrant Indo-Muslim tradition of the Punjabi bhand which now holds a marginal space in contemporary weddings.

Critical humorists and religion are steeped in a long-standing cultural antagonism.

All humans laugh.

Comedy is a brutal business.

When Abu Walid travels and takes his son to offer his condolences, and Hamdi travels on a business trip that lasts a day and a night, the evening is pleasant and the two friends gather and prepare snacks, sandwiches, hot drinks and fruits, and cover themselves with a heavy blanket and sit in front of the TV watching the evening movie, while the storm roars outside their small, warm, simple world.

This book explores the comedy and legacy of women working as performers on the music-hall stage from 1880-1920, and examines the significance of their previously overlooked contributions to British comic traditions.

This Palgrave Pivot questions how a new generation of alternative stand-up comedians and the political world continue to shape and influence each other.

"e;A story that genuinely touches the reader.

This book is a comprehensive study of comic women in performance as Irish Political Melodrama from 1890 to 1925.

Contextualizing the duo's work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Century's most successful double-act.

This collection of original, interdisciplinary essays addresses the work of Monty Python members beyond the comedy show, films, and live performances.

This book reprints and analyses reviews of music hall acts from the family magazine The Red Letter, which was published by the Scottish based firm D C Thomson from 1899 to 1987.

This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction.

Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and continues to influence contemporary stand-up comedy.

This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom).

This book examines the multi-media explosion of contemporary political satire.

This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world.

This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about identity, "e;Indianness"e;, censorship, feminism, diaspora and millennial India.

This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its revival in popularity under Guo Degang and his Deyun Club.

Object work, environment and physicality are essential for improvisational theatre.

Object work, environment and physicality are essential for improvisational theatre.

A spirited dive into the life and career of a performer, writer, and director who dominated twentieth-century American comedy Mel Brooks, born Melvin Kaminsky in Brooklyn in 1926, is one of the great comic voices of the twentieth century.

A step-by-step resource on forging one's own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader's genre of choice.

Finding the bright side of a terrible situation has never been easier, thanks to the adorable baby animal postcards found in Maybe Your Leg Will Grow Back.

This biography profiles Jon Stewart, television's most incisive deliverer of the fake news.

This lighthearted and eye-opening book explores the role of comedy in cultural and political critiques of American society from the past century.

The follow-up to Ian Allen's uproarious Embarassing Dad Jokes, Even More Embarrassing Dad Jokes takes the 'dad joke book' to a new dimension!

A step-by-step resource on forging one's own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader's genre of choice.

On 2 January 2013, just a day before Jim Davidson was due to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house, he found himself behind far more serious locked doors when he was arrested by the Yewtree detectives over alleged sex offences.

Once in a lifetime a venue comes along that changes show business dramatically, that fosters growth and camaraderie, experimentation and freedom.

This stimulating introduction to laughter in theatre and performance examines laughter among actors, among audience, and the interaction between the two.

This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning.

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.

We go shopping together with Badria and Umm Hanan, we buy potatoes and greet acquaintances, friends and vendors, we run away from those we don't want to talk to and we endure our involvement in talking to them.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch .

This book explores xiangsheng, one of the most popular folk art performance genres in China, its enlistment by official propaganda machine after the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its revival in popularity under Guo Degang and his Deyun Club.

¿Qué tienen en común un taxista llorón, una mujer dejada por wasap, un aprendiz de ladrón y una camarera aspirante a actriz?

Ce livre numérique comprend des oeuvres complètes de Molière.

Married and working as a civil servant in a job centre, Sarah Millican's life couldn't have been more ordinary just over a decade ago.

Manfred Maurenbrecher ist einer der bedeutendsten deutschen Liedermacher.

A horror/comedy novel that revolves around Badriya, a housewife in her fifties, a simple lady living an ordinary life in a working-class neighborhood.