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1) Funny girl
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In swinging 60s England, the nation is mesmerized by unlikely comedy star Sophie Straw, the former Blackpool beauty queen who just wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. Behind the scenes, the cast and crew are having the time of their lives. But when the script begins to get a bit too close to home, and life starts imitating art, they all face a choice. The show's writers, Tony and Bill, comedy obsessives, each harbour a secret....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In this fully illustrated companion to Netflix's A Series of Unfortunate Events, discover never-before-seen photographs, never-before-told stories, and never-before-revealed secrets spanning all three seasons of the hilariously twisted series. Original concept art, annotated scripts, and interviews with the creative team and cast, as well as glossaries, recipes, lyric sheets, an introduction by Count Olaf's legal representative Neil Patrick Harris,...
9) Comedy Central, the essential guide to comedy: because there's a fine line between clever and stupid
Author
Publisher
Boulevard Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Edition
Boulevard trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
vi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 333 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Hand-picking the keenest insights and funniest exchanges from eighty-four episodes of the groundbreaking streaming series, this carefully curated book offers excerpts from casual yet intimate conversations with the funniest people alive and behind-the-scenes photos and anecdotes.
12) Radio comedy
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1979.
Physical Desc
xii, 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Netflix's acclaimed animated comedy series BoJack Horseman is set in an off-kilter, cynically spun rendering of modern-day Hollywood. The show follows a washed-up horse actor BoJack Horseman (voiced by Will Arnett) as he attempts to turn his life around. This is the official behind-the-scenes companion to this cult hit series. Part oral history sourced from original interviews with the show's cast and crew, part art book -- including sketches, storyboards,...
Author
Series
A Where are they now mystery volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
15) Springfield confidential: jokes, secrets, and outright lies from a lifetime writing for the Simpsons
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The longest-serving writer and producer for The Simpsons offers a humorous look at the writing and making of the legendary Fox series that has become one of the most influential achievements in television history.
Author
Publisher
Square One Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
viii, 376 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Authors Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis present 24 of Hollywood's top comedy writers with the same generic comedy premise and examine how each writer approaches the creative writing process.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Mary Tyler Moore Show is one of the most beloved television shows of all time. It was an inspiration to a generation of women who wanted to have it all in an era when everything seemed possible. Mary and Lou and Rhonda and Ted tells the stories behind the making of this popular classic, introducing the groundbreaking female writers who lent real-life stories to their tv scripts; the men who created the indelible characters; the lone woman network...
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