Playboys and Killjoys : an Essay on the Theory and Practice of Comedy.

Table of Contents: “…From Play to Plays; B. Notes on City Comedy; C. Veins of Humor; D. The Wages of Satire; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.…”
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Adventures in comedy /

Subjects: “…Comedy.…”
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Writing Comedy. by Byrne, John

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 Can I Learn to Write Comedy from a Book?; 2 Finding Your Comedy Direction; 3 Basic Joke Writing; 4 Writing Comedy Routines; 5 Sketches, Sitcoms and Scripted Comedy; 6 Your Comedy Writing Career; Appendix: The Comedy Writer's Resource Kit; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y.…”
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The idea of comedy : history, theory, critique / by Hokenson, Jan

Table of Contents: “…The contemporary retrospective -- The idea of comedy -- Comedy as an idea.…”
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Sketch comedy : identity, reflexivity, and American television / by Marx, Nick

Table of Contents: “…Sketch comedy and reflexive flexibility -- From radio voices to variety choices : The Colgate Comedy Hour and sketch comedy in early television -- " ... and you're not" : Saturday Night Live in the network era and beyond -- Brand X : MTV's the State and Generation X in the multi-channel transition -- Sketch comedy's identity (post- )politics : Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, -- and Comedy Central in the post-network era -- Sketch comedy and cultural cohesion.…”
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Sketch comedy : identity, reflexivity, and American television / by Marx, Nick

Table of Contents: “…Sketch comedy and reflexive flexibility -- From radio voices to variety choices : The Colgate Comedy Hour and sketch comedy in early television -- " ... and you're not" : Saturday Night Live in the network era and beyond -- Brand X : MTV's the State and Generation X in the multi-channel transition -- Sketch comedy's identity (post- )politics : Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, -- and Comedy Central in the post-network era -- Sketch comedy and cultural cohesion.…”
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The Craft of Comedy. by Seyler, Athene

Table of Contents: “…Just do it; Stephen to Athene, July 20, 1939; Reply, July 21; Summary; Concepts: comedy essentials, national humor, farce, high comedy, comedy vein; Exercises: Delicate to broad, Sitting in fear, Bubblingwith pleasure; 4. …”
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Women and comedy : history, theory, practice /

Table of Contents: “…Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean Zwagerman -- Laughing Aphrodite / Laurie O'Higgins -- Comedy in Ancient Greece and Rome: What Was Funny, Whose Humor Was It, and How Do We Explain the Jokes Without Killing Them? …”
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The death of comedy / by Segal, Erich, 1937-2010

Table of Contents: “…-- Plautus makes an entrance -- A Plautine problem play -- Terence: the African connection -- The mother-in-law of modern comedy -- Machiavelli: the comedy of evil -- Marlowe: Schade and Freude -- Shakespeare: errors and Erōs -- Twelfth night: dark clouds over Illyria -- Molière: the class of '68 -- The fox, the fops, and the factotum -- Comedy explodes -- Beckett: the death of comedy.…”
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Comedy Tonight! V 16 : Comedy Tonight!. by Malarcher, Jay

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; The Commedia dell'arte as the Quintessence of Comedy -- Stanley Vincent Longman; Creating New Comic Stereotypes on the Croatian Postwar/ Transition Stage -- Boris Senker; A Method to the Madness: Laughter Research, Comedy Training, and Improv -- Patrick Bynane; Comedy Tonight ... and Tomorrow: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Laughter through the Ages -- Diana Calderazzo; Performing Molière's Comedies: Challenges and Approaches -- Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian; The Laugh Factory? …”
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Get More Laughs From Your Laughs : How to Be Funny.

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Whose improv is it anyway? : beyond Second City by Seham, Amy E.

Table of Contents: “…ImprovOlympic: The Truth about Improv; Chapter Three. ComedySportz: Play's the Thing; Interlude: The Third Wave; Chapter Four. …”
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Whose improv is it anyway? : beyond Second City by Seham, Amy E.

Table of Contents: “…ImprovOlympic: The Truth about Improv; Chapter Three. ComedySportz: Play's the Thing; Interlude: The Third Wave; Chapter Four. …”
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Saltwater by McPherson, Conor, 1971-

Subjects: “…Comedy.…”
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A Companion to Shakespeare's Works : Volume 3, The Comedies. by Dutton, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Shakespeare and the Traditions of English Stage Comedy; 2 Shakespeare's Festive Comedies; 3 The Humor of It: Bodies, Fluids, and Social Discipline in Shakespearean Comedy; 4 Class X: Shakespeare, Class, and the Comedies; 5 The Social Relations of Shakespeare's Comic Households; 6 Shakespeare's Crossdressing Comedies; 7 The Homoerotics of Shakespeare's Elizabethan Comedies; 8 Shakespearean Comedy and Material Life; 9 Shakespeare's Comic Geographies.…”
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Coastal Disturbances Four Plays. by Howe, Tina

Subjects: “…Comedy.…”
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Performing Live Comedy. by Ritchie, Chris

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 THE COMEDIANS; Chapter 2 THE LANGUAGE; Chapter 3 COMEDY; Chapter 4 THE PERFORMER; Chapter 5 THE COMIC CHARACTER AND OTHERS; Chapter 6 THE PERFORMANCE; Chapter 7 JOKES; Chapter 8 THE AUDIENCE; Chapter 9 THE COMEDY INDUSTRY; Chapter 10 ROUND-UP; Bibliography; Notes.…”
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Grenzen der Komik Ergebnisse des Kasseler Komik-Kolloquiums. by Block, Friedrich

Subjects: “…Comedy.…”
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Kann man denn auch nicht lachend sehr ernsthaft sein? : Sprachen und Spiele des Lachens in der Literatur

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Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character. by Newman, Karen

Table of Contents: “…Comic plot conventions in Measure for Measure; 3. Menander and New Comedy; 4. Plautus and Terence; 5. The enchantments of Circe; 6. …”
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Machine-age comedy / by North, Michael, 1951-

Subjects: “…Comedy films History and criticism.…”
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The laugh industry

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Drama. Comedy

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Little brown comedies /

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Humour, comedy and laughter : obscenities, paradoxes, insights and the renewal of life /

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Comedy and critical thought : laughter as resistance /

Table of Contents: “…A careful cognitivism about satire / Dieter Declercq -- Laughter, liturgy, Lacan and resistance to capitalist logic / Francis Stewart -- Humitas : humour as performative resistance / Kate Fox -- Conformist comedians : political humour in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic / Ivo Nieuwenhuis -- First World War cartoon comedy as criticism of British politics and society / Pip Gregory -- A suspended pratfall : mimesis and slapstick in contemporary art / Levi Hanes -- "Life" in struggle : the indifferent humour of Beckett's prose heroes / Selvin Yaltir -- "Holiday in Cambodia" : punk's acerbic comedy / Russ Bestley -- 'What can't be cured must be endured" : the postcolonial humour of Salman Rushdie, Sami Shah, and Hari Kondabolu / Christine Caruana -- Political jester : from fool to king / Constantino Pereira Martins -- Three easy steps to a new you? …”
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The comedy studies reader /

Table of Contents: “…Volume introduction : comedy as theory, industry, and academic discipline -- The carnivalesque -- Comedy mechanics & absurdity -- Psychoanalyzing comedy -- Irony -- Genre -- Race & ethnicity -- Gender & sexuality -- Nation & globalization.…”
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Comedy and the Public Sphere : the Rebirth of Theatre as Comedy and the Genealogy of the Modern Public Arena. by Szakolczai, Arpad

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The public sphere as a theatrical arena of mocking contest: comedy, mask, laughter. The public and its masks: permanent hyper-critique and hypocritical performance -- Nietzsche's intuitions: from theatre through humanist philology to Richard Wagner, or the genealogy of the modern world as stage -- Ridiculing as public weapon -- The rebirth of theatre as comedy out of the spirit of the Byzantium -- The Byzantine spirit and its sources. …”
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PBS newshour. Elle and Keegan-Michael Key chronicle 'The history of sketch comedy' in new book

Subjects: “…Comedy sketches History and criticism.…”
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Terence and the language of Roman comedy / by Karakasis, Evangelos

Table of Contents: “…Linguistic differentiation in Terence -- Linguistic and stylistic unity in Roman comedy.…”
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A midsummer night's dream

Table of Contents: “…41 The secret meaning of the Interlude, 186542 The perfection of imbecilic clowns, 1866; 43 Not critics, but lowly worshippers of the Beautiful, 1869; 44 The theme is love, 1871; 45 Bottom -- an ass, but no fool, 1873; 46 A Midsummer Night's Dream as masque, 1874; 47 Self-reflexive structure: the Real, the Ideal, and the Representation, 1874; 48 Shakespeare differentiated from Bacon, 1875; 49 Theseus as the central figure, 1875; 50 A comedy of incident, 1875; 51 Consummation of Shakespeare's lyrical genius, 1876; 52 Bottom, a self-made man, 1876; 53 The full glow of fancy and fun, 1877.…”
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All joking aside : American humor and its discontents by Krefting, Rebecca, 1978-

Subjects: “…Stand-up comedy United States.…”
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Irony in the age of empire : comic perspectives on democracy and freedom by Willett, Cynthia, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Laughter against hubris : a preemptive strike -- Laughing to keep from crying : Cornel West, pragmatism, and progressive comedy -- Authenticity in an age of satire : Ellison, Sartre, Bergson, and Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- Engage the enemy : Cavell, comedies of remarriage, and the politics of friendship -- Three concepts of freedom.…”
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Sunday morning. Show business : Funny or Die

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Forms of literature. Drama/comedy

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The serious business of being funny

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Laughing matters : understanding film, television and radio comedy / by Mundy, John, White, Glyn

Table of Contents: “…1. Silent film comedy -- 2. Early sound film comedy -- 3. The romantic comedy film -- 4. …”
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Rhetoric, comedy, and the violence of language in Aristophanes' Clouds / by O'Regan, Daphne Elizabeth

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The myth of deliverance : reflections on Shakespeare's problem comedies / by Frye, Northrop

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Sunday morning. What's so funny?

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