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Stand-up Comedy Techniques and Comedy Writing 9781234567890, 1477123456

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Off the Mic: The World’s Best Stand-Up Comedians Get Serious About Comedy 9781472526113, 9781472526380

What is it to be a stand-up comedian? To be funny, solo? You have no character-role, no double-act partner, and nowhere

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Comedy Writing Self-Taught: The Professional Skill-Building Course in Writing Stand-Up, Sketch, and Situation Comedy 1610352203, 9781610352208

Comedy writing is an acquired skill. No one is born a comedy writer. The desire may be there from an early age, but the

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Funny Business: Joke Writing Formulas for Writers (Comedic Epistemology)

Most people learn to write comedy through trial and error, an intuitive process that can take years to develop. But what

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Pretty/Funny: Women Comedians and Body Politics 9780292756922

Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either “pretty” or “funny.” Attractive actresses with good comic timin

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Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy: Speaking Truth to Power [1 ed.] 9781032156408, 9781032267258, 9781003352808

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the wo

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510 Creative Writing Prompts: For Aspiring and Experienced Writers (Bundle) 9781530099757, 1530099757

Please note: This money-saving bundle features all previously-published books in the "For Aspiring and Experienced

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Why Stand-up Matters: How Comedians Manipulate and Influence 9781472578938, 9781472578921, 9781472578969, 9781472578952

Funny, lively and unpredictable, stand-up comedy is above all a medium to be enjoyed. Popular as a good night out and pa

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Stand-Up Comedy in Chicago 9781439642719, 9781467111843, 2013951874

Ten years after Chicago saw its first full-time comedy club open, the landscape was decidedly different. "Stand-up

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Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America 9780822380504

A cultural theory of stand-up comedy.

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