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©2010
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1 videodisc (64 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Finally, a comedian who isn't whining, insulting or self-loathing. Kathleen Madigan is just brilliantly funny and is still, after 20 years in the business, actually having fun. In this hilarious stand-up special, Kathleen takes on politics, American culture and her family who has given her full permission to sell them down them down the river. Winner of the American Comedy Award for Best Female Comic, Madigan has been seen over 12 times on The Tonight...
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"No one steps up to life's banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, "Grief, please!" Yet as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. But every buffet line has a dessert section, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It's good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always lived by her wits has a real chance of making a living...
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[2015]
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1 videodisc (approximately 65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As one of the funniest, freshest faces on television and film, the comedian is dominating the world of comedy today with her unique blend of honesty and an unapologetic sense of humor. Schumer's provocative, hilariously wicked mind is on full display as she headlines her first HBO stand-up comedy special.
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[2016]
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1 audio disc : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Known for her distinctive storytelling and offbeat sense of humor, Tig, at first, draws highly on personal experiences, speaking frankly and incisively about her fight with cancer, the death of her mother, her family and her wife. Notaro then seamlessly lightens topics with stories about one particularly terrible performance in Vegas; a search for the perfect Santa Claus; her favorite laugh noises; introducing her wife to some overzealous Mississippi...
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2014
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1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Jim Gaffigan is back with a brand new hour long comedy special. He has a clever, quiet and infectious style as he talks about everyday scenarios that people can relate to. As one of the top comedians out today, he continues to raise the bar with new material and of course, some bacon.
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p2013
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2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bill Cosby partners up with Comedy Central for his first comedy special in over two decades. "Far From Finished" is the highly anticipated look back into the funny, satirical and heart-warming style of the iconic comedy legend himself. This concert performance, filmed live in Reno, NV, is extended from its world premiere on Comedy Central.
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c2009
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x, 280 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. There, in a late-night world of sex, drugs, dreams and laughter, they created an artistic community unlike any before or since. It was Comedy Camelot--but it couldn't...
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2016
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2 sound discs (2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Award-winning comedian Paula Poundstone is legendary for her spontaneous wit and razor-sharp humor. She is a popular panelist on NPR's Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! and tours regularly, keeping audiences laughing in her one-woman shows. In North by Northwest, Paula is at her best in two memorable performances, one recorded in Bayfield, Wisconsin, at Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua and the other at the historic Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon....
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"A hilarious and moving account of the trailblazing women of stand-up comedy who broke down walls so they could stand before the mic-perfect for fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Hacks Today, women are ascendant in stand-up comedy, even preeminent. They make headlines, fill arenas, spawn blockbuster movies. But before Amy Schumer slayed, Tiffany Haddish killed, and Ali Wong drew roars, the very idea of a female comedian seemed, to most of America,...
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p2001
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2 sound discs : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 pamphlet.
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Part of what Bob Newhart mastered, earlier on stand-up albums like The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart and The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back! and later on his long-running TV series The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart, was capturing a brand of Everyman neuroses and heightening it, bringing mundane, common scenarios into the realm of the absurd--and the absurdly funny. Newhart also perfected playing a character involved in a conversation with the other...
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"Since his first performance at the legendary New York nightclub "Catch a Rising Star" as a twenty-one-year-old college student in fall of 1975, Jerry Seinfeld has written his own material and saved everything. "Whenever I came up with a funny bit, whether it happened on a stage, in a conversation, or working it out on my preferred canvas, the big yellow legal pad, I kept it in one of those old school accordion folders," Seinfeld writes. "So I have...
17) Doing my time
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p2004
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1 sound disc (64 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.)
18) Dying laughing
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[2017]
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color and black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
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It is a candid look inside the agony and ecstasy of making people laugh for a living. A stand-up comedian must be the writer, the director, and the star performer. There is no rehearsal, no practice, and no safety net when they are in front of a live audience. For most people, baring their soul on stage and having an audience "boo" at them would become a life-long trauma, but for stand-up comedians, it's a nightly challenge.
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This book is a collection of 30 years worth of conversations -- always funny, often poignant, and incredibly intimate -- that not only span Apatow's career, but his adult life. Featuring interviews with luminaries like Mel Brooks and Chris Rock and modern icons like Louis CK and Amy Schumer, this is a book for fans of comedy, from the nerdiest fan of all.
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Sheldon Horowitz novels volume prequel
Pub. Date
2021.
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355 pages ; 24 cm
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1938. Twelve-year old Sheldon Horowitz is still recovering from the tragic loss of his mother only a year ago when a suspicious traffic accident steals the life of his father near their home in rural Massachusetts. Sheldon, who was in the truck, emerges from the crash an orphan hell-bent on revenge. He embarks on a new life under the roof of his buttoned-up Uncle Nate in Hartford. Sheldon, his teenage cousins Abe and Mirabelle, and his best friend,...
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