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African American comedians American wit and humor Comedians Comedians United States Biography Comedians United States Interviews Hart, Kevin 1979- Motion picture actors and actresses United States Interviews Stand-up comedy Stand-up comedy United States Television actors and actresses United States InterviewsSummary: The documentary series brings to life the legends, heartbreak, and history created at the Comedy Store, which over the past 47 years has launched the careers of a breathtaking array of stars. As a Comedy Store alum, former stand-up comic Binder spotlights one of pop culture's great laboratories with never-before-seen footage and incisive, emotional interviews with some of the biggest names in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COMCheech & Chong
Summary: Presents a collection of comedy routines performed by Cheech & Chong.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Records 1981
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CheSummary: A feature film version of America's hit comedy concert tour with renowned comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Ron White, and Larry the Cable Guy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLUSummary: Cardigans Plus Casual Jackets; combine for fifteen hilarious episodes. This double set includes web redemptions with Tron Guy, the backyard wrestler, the N64 kid and David After The Dentist gets back at his dad. Plus, Old Lee reads Miley Cyrus tweets, Daniel gets to the bottom of an epic Beard Man Fight, the grossest thing you've ever seen on television and that's just the tip of the iceberg,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TOSSummary: In a height of the #MeToo movement, feminism, and the infiltration of stand-up comedy by the politically correct, the life and times of courageous comedian Wendi Starling is examined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FUNLevy, Shawn
Summary: "Today, women are ascendant in standup comedy, even preeminent. They make headlines, fill arenas, spawn blockbuster movies. But before Amy Schumer slayed, Tiffany Haddish killed, and Ali Wong drew roars, the very idea of a female comedian seemed, to most of America, like a punchline. And it took a special sort of woman-indeed, a parade of them-to break and remake the mold. In on the Joke is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 LEVSummary: Bo Burnham brings you his first one-hour stand-up special from the House of Blues in Boston. Before he reached his 18th birthday, Burnham entered the mainstream consciousness with Internet videos of him playing uproarious songs with ingenious wordplay and bad puns. This stand-up special will surely not disappoint! Special features include Oh Bo music video, Words, Words, Words music video, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central Home Video 2010
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS BOSummary: Eddie Murphy entertains with celebrity impersonations and his observations on '80s love, sex, marriage, his remembrance of Mom's hamburgers, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS EDDPoundstone, Paula.
Contents: Intro & thank you -- Maine mud season -- Massholes -- Calif. devil's elbow -- Canada -- Cuckoo's nest -- Aging process -- Jowls -- Designer dogs -- Boxer/Chihuahua -- 12 cats -- Cats puff up -- Guilford guy -- Berlin -- Paper mill lady -- Lady home with her kids -- Thomas E. Fever -- Sleeping guy -- Aspartame -- Snow ranger -- Who replaced you? -- Snow ranger's wife -- Airport security -- seat...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Lipstick Nancy 2009
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN POUApatow, Judd
Summary: "No one knows comedy like Judd Apatow. From interviewing the biggest comics of the day for his high school radio show to performing stand-up in L.A. dive bars with his roommate Adam Sandler, to writing and directing Knocked Up and producing Freaks and Geeks, Apatow has always lived, breathed, and dreamed comedy. In this all-new collection of interviews, the sequel to the New York Times...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.7 APASummary: Jim Gaffigan performs live stand-up comedy. He answers such questions as why whales are fat; the effect of hotel rooms on behavior; fast food; etc.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS MR.Summary: Some of the best stand-up comedians in the business share tips of the trade and full-fledged stories to impart the lessons they learned treading the boards, hitting the road, and of course, on occasion, bombing. Featuring interviews with Jonah Ray, Howard Kremer, Marcella Arguello, Jimmy Pardo, Bill Dwyer, Wayne Federman, Rick Overton, Matt Braunger, Nick Thune, Andrew Michaan, Sean Conroy,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 792.7 UPRDe Semlyen, Nick
Summary: "Wild and Crazy Guys opens in 1978 with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray taking bad-tempered swings at each other backstage at Saturday Night Live, and closes 21 years later with the two doing a skit in the same venue, poking fun at each other, their illustrious careers, triumphs and prat falls. In between, Nick de Semlyen takes us on a trip through the tumultuous '80s, delving behind the scenes of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Archetype 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 791.43 DESLeifer, Carol
Summary: For many years, television comedy was an exclusive all boys' club--until a brilliant comedian named Carol Leifer came along, blazing a trail for funny women everywhere. From Late Night with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live to Seinfeld, The Ellen Show, and Modern Family, Carol has written for and/or performed on some of the best TV comedies of all time. This hilarious collection of essays...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 LEIFER, CAROL LEISummary: The documentary explores the currents of American comedy throughout a century of social and political change, illuminating how comedy has tackled and poked fun at our political system, race relations, gender issues, and the prevailing American standards and taboos in everyday life. Melding performance, biography and history, it features interviews with over 90 comedians, writers, producers,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Educational Broadcasting Corp. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.23 MAKApatow, Judd
Summary: "Before his name became synonymous with a new style of comedy; before he had written, directed, or produced his first movie or TV show; before he and his roommate Adam Sandler were performing stand up at dive bars in LA; before all that, Judd Apatow was a kid in Syosett, Long Island who was utterly obsessed with comedy. At 16, he started hosting a radio show for his local high school station,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 APACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 792.7 APASummary: After a much-publicized departure from hosting NBC's Tonight Show, O'Brien hit the road with a 32-city music and comedy show to exercise his performing chops and exorcise a few demons. An intimate portrait of an artist trained in improvisation, captured at the most improvisational time of his career. It offers a window into the private writers' room and rehearsal halls.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CON1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CON
Summary: Edgy, smart, and raunchier than ever, filmmaker Kevin Smith returns with new and wildly irreverent tour footage from Q & A sessions in London and Toronto.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS EVENesteroff, Kliph
Summary: "Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the stand-up comedian transcends the ages: the striving and struggles, the tragedy and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle, George Carlin to Eddie Murphy, Conan O'Brien to Louis C. K.--comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff presents a century of fascinating rebels, forgotten stars, and characters on the precipice of fame...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 NESBell, W. Kamau
Summary: "You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you've read about him in the New York Times, which called him "the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years." Or maybe from The New Yorker, fawning over his brand of humor writing: "Bell's gimmick is intersectional progressivism: he treats racial, gay, and women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017