Be Funny or Die

Author: Joel Morris
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1800183119
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 268

Book Description
Comedy is a game that all humans play. There are big social prizes if you win, but it is easy to end up with custard pie on your face... or worse. Comedy can soothe our pain, vent our anger, make us feel less alone and provide the answer to life’s most difficult questions, such as, ‘What do you call a man with a seagull on his head?’* It’s a social glue but it can also be divisive, and the joke is on us if we don’t understand how it works. So, what are the rules? How does comedy do its magic and why does it matter? Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves. Offering astute analysis of everything from stand-up to slapstick and sitcom to spoof, Morris examines comedic patterns, rhythms and dynamics to uncover the algorithms that secretly underpin comedy. Packed with gags and examples of comedy at its best – plus some invaluable tips on how to master that b’dum tish timing – Be Funny or Die is a fascinating investigation into how our species has developed and mastered this essential art form where laughter is the universal language and only the funniest survive. *Cliff.

Comedy

Author: N. J. Lowe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521706094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
Comedy offers a concise, accessible guide to the study of Greek and Roman comedy in the light of current scholarship.

New Silent Cinema

Author: Katherine Groo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317819446
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
With the success of Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) and Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist (2011) nothing seems more contemporary in recent film than the styles, forms, and histories of early and silent cinemas. This collection considers the latest return to silent film alongside the larger historical field of visual repetitions and affective currents that wind their way through 20th and 21st century visual cultures. Contributors bring together several fields of research, including early and silent cinema studies, experimental and new media, historiography and archive theory, and studies of media ontology and epistemology. Chapters link the methods, concerns, and concepts of early and silent film studies as they have flourished over the last quarter century to the most recent developments in digital culture—from YouTube to 3D—recasting this contemporary phenomenon in popular culture and new media against key debates and concepts in silent film scholarship. An interview with acclaimed Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin closes out the collection.

The Entertainer Meets ChatGPT

Author: Dr. Ope Banwo
Publisher: Dr Ope Banwo
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
Encounter Between The Entertainer and ChatGPT Reveals Everything Entertainers Need To Know About Using Artificial Intelligence In The Entertainment Industry.

The Book Review Digest

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1952

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Strange Bedfellows

Author: Russell Leslie Peterson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813542847
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
A significant number of Americans get some of their "news" about politics and national affairs from comedy shows. Is "infotainment" a debasement, or a replacement, for traditional news outlets?

Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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The Funniest Joke Book Ever!

Author: Editors of Portable Press
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1626866139
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90

Book Description
Over 500 giggles, groans, and belly laughs! Kids can’t resist sharing jokes (even you try to stop them), so they always need a fresh supply. We’ve stuffed the pages of this little joke book with the funniest jokes we could find. Old favorites, new favorites, and a few festering stinkers, all guaranteed to make kids laugh out loud. You’ll find Q&A jokes, knock-knock jokes, riddles, and one-liners. And, of course, we’ve included entire chapters of those all-time kid-pleasers: elephant jokes, pirate jokes, and space jokes. Here’s a sampling: What's black and white, black and white, black and white? A penguin rolling down a hill. Why don’t zombies eat clowns? They taste funny. Why did the hen scold her chicks? They were using fowl language. What kind of books do skunks read? Best-smellers! How does Darth Vader like his toast? On the dark side. . . . and many more!

A Wiccan Dictionary

Author: Charles Arnold
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1930997957
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Witchcraft has a language and dialect all its own. Based on English and European words and terms and adopted over the centuries, we have a language of codes, of sensuality, of shadows, designed to be able to be used in public while sending often secret messages. Based on a Traditional Wiccan dictionary that has been handed down, and supplemented selectively with words and phrases that have been adopted more recently, this dictionary will prove effective in ritual, in spell working, and in communication between witches in a way that is secure, and just a little bit romantic as well.

The Black Joke

Author: Farley Mowat
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551992299
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
The Black Joke is a rousing sea story in the tradition of the great classic pirate tales. The time is the 1930s. The loot is bootleg liquor, not pirate gold. And the ship is the Black Joke, the speediest, nimblest craft on the Newfoundland coast—Jonathon Spence, owner and master. An unwelcome passenger enmeshes the boat and her crew (young Peter and Kye) in danger and near destruction . . . until the fiercely independent people of the island of Miquelon are caught up in the fate of the Black Joke and the cargo aboard her.