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'A great read' Brendan O'Connor, RT In nearly three decades as a performer, Tommy Tiernan has never wanted to play it safe.

This volume tackles the role of smell, under-explored in relation to the other senses, in the modern rejection, reappraisal and idealisation of antiquity.

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.

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

By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted.

Wayang kulit, or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali.

Comedy is a brutal business.

Traditional Carnival has been well documented with a vast array of books published on the subject.

In den letzten fünfzig Jahren hat der Zirkus einen bemerkenswerten Wandel erlebt.

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

A funny, poignant and inspirational story of widely acclaimed comedian, writer and producer, Tim Ferguson.

Originally published in 1933, this collection contains both of the works on magic put together by the author.

It is often suggested that there are 'secrets' to comedy or that it is 'lightning in a bottle', but the craft of comedy writing can be taught.

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

Compiled from dozens of interviews conducted by the author, Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy is a bracing, tender, melancholy, and triumphant exploration of death and dying.

Poker is a centuries-old American game.

A fun and fascinating deep dive for "e;devoted and loyal MST3K fans"e; (Library Journal) that reveals the impact and creation of the cult-hit television series Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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

Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatrical form took the stage in ancient Athens.

The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy examines how contemporary writer/performers are influenced by the comedic vaudevillians of the early 20th century.

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.

"e;Klin is an insightful interviewer and a marvelous writer.

Not for the faint-hearted, this book contains an impressive variety of magic tricks using small props you might easily carry in your pocket.

Festivals and events vary from small, neighbourhood celebrations through to mega gatherings, and both can be attractive to tourists.

The Front Lawn is a multi-award-winning, much-loved New Zealand duo-turned-trio made up of Don McGlashan, Harry Sinclair and, eventually, Jennifer Ward-Lealand.

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

Beckett's relationship with British theatre is complex and underexplored, yet his impact has been immense.

While the study of animal-human interactions within the context of tourism has been explored in a greater number and diversity of ways within the last decade, the discourse remains divided between traditional tourism academia and outside disciplines 'looking in'.

I'm really looking forward to robbing this bank!

'A terrific book .

WIN CUSTOMERS AND BUILD BRANDS THROUGH THE POWER OF STORYTELLING Moth GrandSLAM all-time champion storyteller, writer, and business coach Matthew Dicks presents a guide to using the power of storytelling for success in business of any type or size.

Examines how the Panathenaia (''all Athenian''), the most important festival in ancient Athens, created identities for participants.

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

Originally published in the 1940s, the author, a master of his craft, has clearly and concisely explained the making of both hand and string puppets, and also clearly shown how they may be used in appropriate settings.

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.

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.

Part clown manual, part storytelling and part rant The Clown Manifesto covers the experiences, philosophies and methods of the clown performer/director/teacher Nalleslavski.

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

Nina G bills herself as The San Francisco Bay Areas Only Female Stuttering Comedian.

Explores theatre''s relationship with the market economy since the 1990s, from the Third Way to the age of austerity.

This exhaustive work on flatulence breaks new wind on every aspect of abdominal gas in popular culture.

How do we define movement in performance?

Julian Mann, the hard drinking, preening, and sexually provocative star of the TV sitcome Richard the Nerd, feels caught on the horns of a dilemma: should he be concentrating on his career, which is on the slide after an unseemly bout of fisticuffs at the BAFTA awards; or following his baser instincts and bedding every young girl in sight?

This anthology negotiates the influential, yet silent educational presence of spiritualities within the field of somatic movement dance education internationally.

While the study of animal-human interactions within the context of tourism has been explored in a greater number and diversity of ways within the last decade, the discourse remains divided between traditional tourism academia and outside disciplines 'looking in'.