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With contributions by leading scholars, writers and comedians in the USA, the UK and Canada, The Laughing Stalk: Live Comedy and Its Audiences focuses on the dynamics of audience behavior. Performers, writers, historians, producers, and theorists explore the practice and reception of live comedy performance, including cultural and historical variations in comedy audience conduct, the reception of "low" versus "high" comedy, and the differences between...
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A compilation of pantomime-related reviews and anecdotes published in 'The Era' and other English newspapers between, 1806 and 1904, covering the period between the heyday of clown Joseph Grimaldi and music hall star Dan Leno's last appearance as a pantomime Dame in 1904.
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The adult-oriented science-fiction cartoon series Rick and Morty, shown on Cartoon Network as part of its late-night Adult Swim feature, is famous for its nihilistic anti-hero Rick Sanchez. Rick is a character who rejects God, religion, and meaning, but who embraces science and technology.
This leads to a popular show that often presents a world view favorable to science and dismissive of spirituality. It is existentialism mashed up with absurdism...
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Está demostrado científicamente que la risa y el sentido del humor influyen muy positivamente no sólo en nuestro estado de ánimo, sino en la salud en general, así que nada mejor que una buena dosis de chistes. Y este libro le ofrece más de 1000: una completísima selección de los mejores chistes en los que encontrará la medicina indispensable para relajarse y olvidar las preocupaciones cotidianas. ¡En definitiva, una fuente de salud y diversión!...
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With an off-putting title and a decidedly retrograde premise, the CW dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is a surprising choice for critical analysis. But, loyal viewers quickly came to appreciate the show's sharp cultural critique through masterful parody, and this strategy has made it a critical darling and earned it several awards throughout its run. In ways not often seen on traditional network television, the show transcends conventional genre boundaries-the...
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Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's funny women didn't come out of nowhere. Fay Tincher's daredevil stunts, Mae West's linebacker walk, Lucille Ball's manic slapstick, Carol Burnett's athletic pratfalls, Ellen DeGeneres's tomboy pranks, Whoopi Goldberg's...
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In defiance of the alleged "death of romantic comedy," After "Happily Ever After", “Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age” edited by Maria San Filippo attests to rom-com's continuing vitality in new modes and forms that reimagine and rejuvenate the genre in ideologically, artistically, and commercially innovative ways. No longer the idyllic fairy tale, today's romantic comedies ponder the realities and complexities of intimacy, fortifying the...
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work . . . I want to achieve it through not dying."
Woody Allen has been one of the most well-regarded filmmakers since his debut in 1965 with What's Up, Tiger Lily? He hit his stride by focusing on the inner neuroses of the average New Yorker with such classics as Annie Hall, Manhattan, and Manhattan Murder Mystery.
This rich collection features three hundred color photographs interspersed with quotes...
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