An Unofficial Guide to the Seasons, Sketches, and Stars of Saturday Night Live
Television history was made on October 11, 1975, when a new generation of young performers welcomed America to the first episode of a new late-night comedy and variety show. Combining cutting-edge humor with a satirical sensibility, Saturday Night Live would go on to become the longest-running series of its kind in television history, ......
The Art of Long-Form Improvisation for Stage and Screen
Improvisational comedy has exploded over the last several decades, a wildly popular genre that can be found everywhere from venues like The Second City and Upright Citizen's Brigade to college campuses and corporate retreats. But there's more to improv than the short, jokey, and game-based version that has become familiar to audiences. In fact, ......
Featuring even more insights on "Weird Al" Yankovic including his activities during a tumultuous 2020 and 2021, this expanded edition dives deeper into the world of the iconic man. Lily Hirsch weaves together original interviews with Weird Al and presents a fresh, Al-expense-paid tour of a true comedic and musical genius.
The Seriously Funny Life and Work of George Carlin
About the influential and philosophical comedy of George Carlin, Outside Looking In traces his evolving ideas from street humor to larger questions about the meaning of life.
Laughing Saints, Delirious Prophets, and the Sacred Makers of Comedy
From the self-abasements of Charlie Chaplin and Lenny Bruce's provocations to the present-day culture warring over figures like Dave Chappelle and Hannah Gadsby, comedians have always been not simply entertainers, but charismatic observers of (and participants in) social anxieties and pathologies. Performers as varied as Mort Sahl, Richard Pryor, ......
Black women comedians are more visible than ever, performing around the world in physical venues like comedy clubs and festivals, along with appearing in films, streaming specials, and online videos. Across these mediums, humor, and particularly sass, functions as a tool for Black women to articulate and redress cultural, social, and political ......
Black women comedians are more visible than ever, performing around the world in physical venues like comedy clubs and festivals, along with appearing in films, streaming specials, and online videos. Across these mediums, humor, and particularly sass, functions as a tool for Black women to articulate and redress cultural, social, and political ......
Understanding ItsCognitive, Social, and Emotional Benefits
Discover the cognitive, social, emotional, and other psychological benefits of learning how to act and perform. This book looks behind the curtain of theatre education to see how thinking on stage happens in real secondary classrooms. Reporting on the first large scale systematic qualitative analyses of acting classes for adolescents, the author ......
