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Archive collection Art of communicating Behold humanity! a sociological perspective Charlie Saunders Collection Comedy classics Crossroads (Films for the Humanities & Sciences) Great courses (DVD) Human brain (Princeton, N.J.) Portraits in human sexuality UCB Comedy Education SeriesMonty Python (Comedy troupe)
Contents: Introduction to the executive CD edition -- Tour of the Classic Silbury Hill Theatre -- Live broadcast from London: Premier of the film -- Narration from the Silbury Hill Gentlemen's Room / You're using coconuts -- Bring out your dead -- King Arthur and the old woman: A lesson in anarcho-syndicated commune living -- A witch -- A lesson in logic -- Camelot -- Quest for the Holy Grail -- Live...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Arista 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MONCapitol Steps (Comedy troupe)
Contents: Amazing Rick (2:52) -- Love potion 9-9-9 (1:36) -- Three little wives of Newt (2:05) -- Osama and the sea (3:58) -- You can't hide this Biden guy (3:18) -- Help me fake it to the right (1:41) -- Candidates' hello (1:51) -- Midnight ride of Paul, revised (3:15) -- Don't go fakin' you're smart (2:40) -- If I tax a rich man (3:18) -- Occupy Wall Street Journal (4:18) -- Itsy bitsy teeny Weiner...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Steps 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CAPBlue Collar Comedy Tour
Summary: Comedy routines on the humorous aspects of blue collar life.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN BLUCapitol Steps (Comedy troupe)
Contents: Livin' libido loco -- Son of a Bush -- Al and Bill order a little Chinese -- Put ten grand in the hand -- Won't you go home, Bill Bradley? -- Who wants to be a millionaire candidate? -- You're so vague -- Bob dole's millennial moment -- I can't say yo -- Dung at art -- Blame it on the boss at NASA -- Yappety yap -- Right wing striking again/Stand by your Klan -- NATO -- Kosovo -- Gourmet...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Capitol Steps 2000
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN CAPDrugdealer (Musical group)
Contents: Far rockaway theme -- The real world (ft. Sheer Agony) -- Suddenly (ft. Weyes Blood) -- Easy to forget (ft. Ariel Pink) -- Were you saying something? -- Theme for Alessandro -- It's only raining right where you're standing -- The end of comedy (ft. Weyes Blood) -- Sea of nothing -- My life (ft. Danny James) -- Comedy outro.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK DRUContents: Vol. 1: The gorilla / The Ritz Brothers -- All over town / Olsen & Johnson -- Private Snuffy Smith -- Mr. Wise Guy / The East Side Kids -- Bonus feature: famous comedy teams. Vol. 2: Half shot at sunrise / Wheeler & Woolsey -- Africa screams / Abbott & Costello -- Check and double check / Amos and Andy -- Bonus feature: Abbott & Costello radio broadcast with photo gallery. Vol. 3: Speak easily...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Clair Vision 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MASMonty Python (Comedy troupe)
Contents: Introduction -- Constitutional peasant -- Fish licence -- Eric the half-a-bee song -- Finland song -- Travel agent -- Are you embarrassed easily? -- Australian table wines -- Argument -- Henry Kissinger song -- Parrot : Oh, not again -- Sit on my face -- Undertaker -- Novel writing -- String -- Bells -- Traffic lights -- Cocktail bar -- Four Yorkshiremen -- Election special -- Lumberjack song.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Virgin 1987
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN MONFox, Jesse David
Summary: "Comedy is king. From multimillion-dollar TV specials to sold-out stand-up shows and TikTok stardom, comedy has never been more popular, democratized, or influential. Comedians have become organizing forces across culture—as trusted as politicians and as fawned-over as celebrities—yet comedy as an art form has gone under-considered throughout its history, even as it has ascended as a cultural...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This program traces the development of a human being from conception to full-term fetus, with a focus on the functions of the male and female reproductive systems. The three stages of development in the womb-pre-embryonic, embryonic, and fetal, generated by the mechanisms of division, differentiation, morphogenesis, patterning, and growth-are illustrated, after which there is a close...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Apatow, 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,...
Format: text
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 APAWilliams, Robin
Contents: Opening (1:58) -- Ballet (1:32) -- Alcohol (5:28) -- Marijuana (2:22) -- Cocaine (4:12) -- Cops (2:54) -- Reagan (5:43) -- Khadafi (1:48) -- Spring (1:33) -- Men's parts (1:36) -- Lust (3:56) -- Dr. Roof (4:28) -- Pregnancy (2:08) -- Childbirth (4:15) -- Childhood (6:06) -- ... And the future (3:14)
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia 1986
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN WILSummary: Europe's wealth represents a golden opportunity for those who smuggle cheap, easily exploited workers across international borders. But how does the loathsome mechanism of human trafficking actually occur, and what are EU authorities doing to fight it? This program investigates by recording the experiences of human trafficking victims and evaluating the work of the EU government in the battle...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Contents: The opener. -- My one and only love. -- Struttin' with some barbecue. -- Blue again. -- Laughing at life. -- My honey's lovin' arms. -- Merchandise mart indians. -- Funk, Chicago style.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Door, Harry Lim Productions 1973
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1 available in LP Phonograph Record, Call number: VINYL JAZZ BARNesteroff, 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 NESMoyn, Samuel
Summary: "A history of how an international effort to outlaw war gave way to an effort to regulate it, with an emphasis on the role played by the United States"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 341.6 MOYSummary: Professor of applied neurobiology Susan Standring conducts a basic anatomical examination of the human brain and its connections in the skull using museum specimens. During the process, Standring identifies the cerebral lobes, optic nerves, arachnoid granulations, and blood vessels. Examining the cranial cavity with the brain removed, she points out the frontal bones, orbital plates, crista...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program looks at aspects of how relationships are formed and sustained. Interview segments include a couple who talk about connecting online through Match.com; a diverse group of young Muslim women who discuss the liberating effects of physical modesty and Islamic approaches to courting and marriage; and a couple who describe how they met and demonstrate how PREP relationship enhancement...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: A heartwarming look at family and friendship, and the poignant story of high school student Homer Macauley and the lives he touches while delivering telegrams throughout his small California town during the troubling years of World War II. Moving and timeless, a masterful celebration of the American way of life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUMHeller, Anne Conover.
Summary: A comprehensive and eye-opening portrait of one of the most significant and improbable figures of the twentieth century--from her childhood in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution to her years as a screenwriter in Hollywood, the publication of her blockbuster novels, and the rise and fall of the cult that formed around her in the 1950s and 1960s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAND, AYN HELSummary: Two of Italy's greatest artists are eternally linked, one genius having paid homage to another. Two hundred years after Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy, Sandro Botticelli illustrated the classic with a series of exquisite drawings crafted at the height of his career. In this program, translator Mark Musa, art historians, clergy, and other experts guide viewers through Botticelli's...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Comedy is the complement of tragedy, and tragedy is one of the oldest forms of ritual in the Western world. However, while tragedy is linked to the sacred, comedy is often linked to the profane and sometimes even the sacrilegious. This program explores comedy, from Aristophanes and Cicero to the Christian ban on humor. The Feast of Fools and Carnival as Christian institutions that celebrate the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC COMSummary: What if your memory suddenly vanished? What if you could no longer summon up any recollections of your mother's embrace, a best friend's confidences, or the moment you first met your spouse? What if you couldn't even remember yourself, not your name, your school, where you worked, or even the face of the total stranger staring back at you from the mirror? If all of these memories were gone,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 153.12 MEMMeslow, Scott
Summary: "From culture writer and GQ contributor Scott Meslow, an in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy's modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the 80s and the 90s, its slow decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming, featuring exclusive interviews with the directors, writers, and stars of the iconic films that defined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow 2022