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Pub. Date
2023
Description
A candid memoir filled with vivid anecdotes: Growing up in the South, navigating stand-up comedy's challenging early days, brushes with celebrities like Chris Rock and Whoopi Goldberg, and insights on Ghostbusters, Supermarket Sweep, The Daily Show. Revealing struggles as a tall Black woman in comedy.
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Series
Pig trilogy volume 2
Description
An Irish castle haunted by the ghosts of two murdered youths. As in The Pig Did It, Caldwell brings his masterly comic touch to his dialogue, his characters, and his sense of place, so that The Pig Comes to Dinner achieves its own unique blend of romance, comedy, and Irish history.
9) Catch-22
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (267 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the acclaimed Joseph Heller novel, Catch-22 follows the adventures and misadventures of a US air squadron in Italy in World War II, where the real enemy of the soldiers is actually the bureaucracy of the military.
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"In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly with viewers that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, working women, and why you never see new-mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. Wong's sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this completely original collection. She shares the wisdom she's...
12) Comic relief
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
xv, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
A collection of twenty-two comedy routines from the first ten years of the Comic Relief fund raiser includes performances from stand-up greats Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Gary Shandling, Steven Wright, and Elayne Boosler.
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Pub. Date
1976.
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xi, 76 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 22 cm
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"Virginia Woolf's only play-a hilarious farce taken from the life of her great-aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, the famous Victorian photographer. It was first performed at Vanessa Bell's London studio in 1935 as one of Bloomsbury's theatrical evenings and later, in New York, in a star-studded French production. Edited and with a Preface by Lucio P. Ruotolo drawings by Edward Gorey."--Publisher description.
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Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into farcical love, while Hero's supposed infidelity
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Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
407 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In this Regency comedy of manners self-reliant Lydia Templeton rejects the county's most eligible bachelor but years later, when her ward proves surprisingly tricky to manage, discovers that her own spinster's heart may not be the closed book she thought it was.
17) Identity thief
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy's identity.
19) Comedy sex god
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Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of stand-up stand-out, podcast king, and HBO superstar Pete Holmes.
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"An enchanting new novel from one of the most distinguished writers of our time, an altogether serious comedy that is the synthesis and culmination of his oeuvre"--
Four friends in contemporary Paris who encounter one another at parties and at the Luxembourg Gardens and talk about sex, history, art, politics, and the meaning of life.
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