Performing Arts

The exercises in this book will get you off the couch and onto the stage, helping you develop the skills necessary to envision, and achieve, a successful career in comedy....

"I've experienced a whole lot the last few years and I have a lot to share....

While other books give you tips on how to “write funny,” this book offers a paradigm shift in understanding the mechanics and art of comedy and the proven, practical tools that help writers translate that understanding into successful commercial scripts....

En esta galardonada producción de Audible Studios, Trevor Noah cuenta su salvaje historia sobre la mayoría de edad durante el ocaso del apartheid en Sudáfrica....

At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's Holiday Camp talent competition, smashing the only other competitor, a young girl playing the kazoo....

The key principles of stand-up comedy can be applied to your speaking engagements and presentations to make you funnier, more interesting, and better looking (or at least two of the three)....

At last, the definitive audiobook about perhaps the best cabin crew dramedy ever filmed: View from the Top starring Gwyneth Paltrow.....

This year, Penguin is proud to bring you comedy from what would have been the Edinburgh Festival Fringe....

All three series of the BBC Radio 4 comedy about love, marriage and despair, initially broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as Start/Stop....

In these fresh and hilarious personal essays, Mindy Kaling gives the inside scoop on her new role as single mom, the perks of being her own husband, and how she deals with social anxiety even at the most glamorous A-list parties....

Why is every film or tv programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that sentence make it okay? These and many other questions trouble David Mitchell. Join him on a tour of the absurdities of modern life....

In this definitive joke-writing handbook, learn comedy writing and how to write a joke with a simple comedy-writing and joke-writing formula you can use right now to write your own jokes....

Outsider. Misfit. Criminal. Convict. . . . Movie star. Family man. Comedy legend. Joey Diaz has been called every name in the book (and then some). Now, for the first time, he shares the story of his unlikely rise to fame in his own words—with no punches pulled....

From a massively successful stand-up comedian and co-host of chart-topping podcasts “2 Bears 1 Cave” and “Your Mom’s House,” hilarious real-life stories of parenting, celebrity encounters, youthful mistakes, misanthropy, and so much more....

In 2005, Dave Chappelle left show business at the height of his fame, giving up a small fortune and the hottest new television show in many years....

FM & AM found Carlin officially poking fun at, while incorporating, his early material, performed in the lounges of America and on The Ed Sullivan Show....

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....

The entries in this compulsively listenable book bridge past and present with topics like getting ghosted, handling haters, and why dog owners rule (sorry, cat people)....

Rainn Wilson’s memoir about growing up geeky and finally finding his place in comedy, faith, and life. For nine seasons Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. Viewers of The Office fell in love with the character....

A selection of sketches from Monty Python's Fying Circus.

Perhaps the ultimate in TV madness and absurdity, this is innovative and ground-breaking comedy....

During the course of a career that began in the late 1940s, Lenny Bruce challenged the sanctity of organized religion and other societal and political conventions; he widened the boundaries of free speech....

Responding to a question about why there are not many women comediennes or jokes which do not have a male chauvinistic ring to them, Osho dives into the context and history of women in societies and the sense of humor coming into existence at a late stage of evolution....

Where do comedians come from? Why is it that one person is a funny bloke down the pub while another actually makes a living by standing up in front of an audience telling jokes? And where does all that material come from....

Actor, voice actor, and comedian H. Jon Benjamin helps us all feel a little better about our own failures by sharing his own - despite his success starring on Archer and Bob's Burgers - in a hilarious, self-helpful memoir....

The McGees make the mistake of trying to go to sleep early....

"Teresa Reichl spoilert die Antwort auf die Frage, die sich die meisten stellen werden: Kann die eigentlich was? Fünf Minuten auf der Bühne sind ihr zu wenig geworden, also wird sie in ihrem ersten abendfüllenden Programm alles zeigen, was sie kann (und wahrscheinlich auch, was sie nicht kann). Reichl lässt sich begleiten auf einer Reise durch ihr noch junges Leben. Von Streichen, die sie als Kind ihrem Bruder gespielt hat, über die Schulzeit und die erste eigene Wohnung bis jetzt, wo sie sich traut, sich auf eine Bühne zu stellen und zu sagen: Obacht, i kann wos!"

In dieser Sonderreihe von WortArt zum Anlass des 30-jährigen Bestehens wird jeweils ein(e) Wegbegleiter(in) und "WortArtist(in)“ per Audio-Porträt und anhand eines Zusammenschnitts der besten Klassikernummern aus dem Programmarchiv des/der Künstler(in) präsentiert. Somit entsteht ein einzigartiges Highlight für die Lach- und Denkmuskeln. Ein Audioporträt zusammengetragen aus 30 Jahren Fleißarbeit mit vielen herausragenden Szenen und Programmen der deutschen Humorlandschaften.

Matt Rife is well aware that he’s both the most loved and the most controversial comic in America today. And honestly, he thinks that’s your problem. In his very first book, Matt reveals without apology everything that led him to becoming comedy’s biggest lightning rod before he reached thirty, in a story full of bold and hysterical takes on everything from Justin Bieber tramp stamps and rap battles with ex-cons to Matt’s battles with depression and his many brushes with failure before finally hitting it big.

Enquanto tenta salvar seu casamento, Bruno descobre que a humanidade inteira voltou a vida, o juízo final acontecerá em 10 dias, e que Rogério, o ex de sua esposa, Fernanda, também voltou dos mortos. Por meio de um app, a humanidade descobre se irá para o céu ou o inferno, e Bruno está bem longe de ir para o céu.

いつだってやさしくなぐさめてくれる「いたわりロボット」。のび太は自分に都合の悪いことが起きるとすぐにこのロボットに頼るようになってしまう。そこでドラえもんはのび太の未来の姿をみせるのだった･･･。藤子・Ｆ・不二雄のまんが「ドラえもん」のとっても楽しいストーリーを、林家たい平が落語で再現！

のび太のパパが昔お世話になった有名画家の柿原先生の絵はなんと600万円もするという。ドラえもんとのび太は、まだ無名だったころの先生の絵を買いにタイムマシンででかけるが･･･！？　藤子・Ｆ・不二雄のまんが「ドラえもん」のとっても楽しいストーリーを、林家たい平が落語で再現！

Entdecke die "20 nervigen Dinge", die uns im Alltag immer wieder den letzten Nerv rauben. Von endlosen Warteschlangen im Supermarkt und lästigen Werbeanrufen bis hin zu verstopften Verkehrsstunden – wir beleuchten die kleinen und großen Ärgernisse, die das Leben manchmal komplizierter machen. Erfahre praktische Tipps und Tricks, wie du besser mit diesen Frustrationen umgehen kannst und deinen Alltag stressfreier gestaltest.

1974 was a busy year for Mel Brooks. Although still recovering after a series of failed projects threatened his career, he pulled off a one-two punch that saw the release of two of the most beloved American comedies ever made: Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. Although both films are well-known, the stories beyond the making of each movie are less so. How did they come to be, and how did the era's culture and politics not only permit them to be made, but help them to become enduring comedy classics?

This hilarious compendium celebrates a decade of Taskmaster's inspired chaos. Relive the most outrageous tasks, iconic meltdowns, and ingenious victories from your favourite contestants.

Nora Coss, dramaturga y directora de teatro, autora de la exitosa novela Nubecita (Premio Juan Rulfo para Primera Novela 2018), habla del arte de hacer reír y crear personajes en esta entrevista con Mónica Braun, directora de Nieve de Chamoy.