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Author: Henny Youngman Publisher: Citadel Press ISBN: 9780806520575 Category : American wit and humor Languages : en Pages : 0
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It is said of the late Henny Youngman that he could make the Sphinx crack a smile. For seventy years he tossed off one-liners that astonished and provoked and sent waves of laughter through his audiences all over the country. Here, in Take My Wife, Please!, Henny's enduring vaudeville, radio, and television routines are collected in one volume from his three previous books: How Do You Like Me So Far?, 400 Traveling Salesmen Jokes, and Bar Jokes, Bar Tricks and Bar Gags. Henny Youngman was called "the King of the One-Liners" for good reason. This collection shows why.
Author: Henny Youngman Publisher: Citadel Press ISBN: 9780806520575 Category : American wit and humor Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
It is said of the late Henny Youngman that he could make the Sphinx crack a smile. For seventy years he tossed off one-liners that astonished and provoked and sent waves of laughter through his audiences all over the country. Here, in Take My Wife, Please!, Henny's enduring vaudeville, radio, and television routines are collected in one volume from his three previous books: How Do You Like Me So Far?, 400 Traveling Salesmen Jokes, and Bar Jokes, Bar Tricks and Bar Gags. Henny Youngman was called "the King of the One-Liners" for good reason. This collection shows why.
Author: Kliph Nesteroff Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 0802190863 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 460
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“Funny [and] fascinating . . . If you’re a comedy nerd you’ll love this book.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, National Post, and Splitsider Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, this groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past one hundred years. Starting with the vaudeville circuit at the turn of the last century, the book introduces the first stand-up comedian—an emcee who abandoned physical shtick for straight jokes. After the repeal of Prohibition, Mafia-run supper clubs replaced speakeasies, and mobsters replaced vaudeville impresarios as the comedian’s primary employer. In the 1950s, the late-night talk show brought stand-up to a wide public, while Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Jonathan Winters attacked conformity and staged a comedy rebellion in coffeehouses. From comedy’s part in the civil rights movement and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, to the first comedy clubs of the 1970s and the cocaine-fueled comedy boom of the 1980s, The Comedians culminates with a new era of media-driven celebrity in the twenty-first century. “Entertaining and carefully documented . . . jaw-dropping anecdotes . . . This book is a real treat.” —Merrill Markoe, TheWall Street Journal
Author: Richard Zoglin Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1582346259 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 257
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Surveys the stand-up comedy of the 1970s, citing the contributions of celebrity comics, from George Carlin and Richard Pryor to Robin Williams and Andy Kaufman, in an account that also evaluates the roles played by such clubs as Catch a Rising Star, the Improv, and the Comedy Store.
Author: Lawrence J. Epstein Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 0786724927 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 348
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Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength and soul from the comic genius of Jewish performers and writers. An incomplete listing of names makes the point: The Marx Brothers, Jack Benny, Fanny Brice, George Burns, Milton Berle, Jackie Mason, Joan Rivers, Rodney Dangerfield, Mel Brooks, Alan King, Mort Sahl, Buddy Hackett, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Andy Kaufman, Richard Belzer, Jerry Seinfeld. These men and women, among others, form the canon of Jewish-American comedy. In the words of the Detroit Jewish News, The Haunted Smile "offers us a deep and subtle understanding of how Jewish culture and American openness gave birth to a new style of entertainment." Often the best way to illuminate a point is to recount some of these comedians' own brilliant routines, and Epstein uses the comedian's work to great effect, making for a book that is both a thoughtful work of history and a great deal of fun.
Author: Bob Odenkirk Publisher: McSweeney's ISBN: 1940450667 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 107
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Bob Odenkirk is a legend in the comedy-writing world, winning Emmys and acclaim for his work on Saturday Night Live, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and many other seminal TV shows. This book, his first, is a spleen-bruisingly funny omnibus that ranges from absurdist monologues (“Martin Luther King, Jr’s Worst Speech Ever”) to intentionally bad theater (“Hitler Dinner Party: A Play”); from avant-garde fiction (“Obituary for the Creator of Madlibs”) to free-verse poetry that's funnier and more powerful than the work of Calvin Trillin, Jewel, and Robert Louis Stevenson combined. Odenkirk's debut resembles nothing so much as a hilarious new sketch comedy show that’s exclusively available as a streaming video for your mind. As Odenkirk himself writes in “The Second Coming of Jesus and Lazarus,” it is a book “to be read aloud to yourself in the voice of Bob Newhart.”
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 172
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The world's first complete book of wine humor. Hundreds of funny quotes, definitions, anecdotes and news items about mankind's favorite beverage. Plus cartoons from The New Yorker.
Author: Joseph Telushkin Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0062012851 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 311
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Here are more than 100 of the best Jewish jokes you'll ever hear, interspersed with perceptive and persuasive insight into what they can tell us about how Jews see themselves, their families, and their friends, and what they think about money, sex, and success. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin is as celebrated for his wit as for his scholarship, and in this immensely entertaining book, he displays both in equal measure. Stimulating, something stinging, and always very, very funny, Jewish Humor offers a classic portrait of the Jewish collective unconscious.
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Author: Joseph Telushkin