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SNL collectionSummary: Memorable moments from Chris Farley's appearances on Saturday Night Live as he portrays the Chippendales dancer, Matt Foley (motivational speaker), Bennet Brauer (news correspondent) and other characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD SATSummary: Nonstop laughs are in the house with season four of In living color on DVD! No celebrity was too sacred and no current event was too controversial for this Emmy-winning hit show that pushed the boundaries of sketch comedy with hilarious results.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INPryor, Richard
Contents: disc 1, 1966-1968. Peoria ; Improv, pt. 1 ; Heart & brain ; Playboy club ; Rumpelstiltskin ; Slippin' in poo poo ; Birth control ; Nigger babies ; Black power ; Super nigger ; I feel ; Jail ; Prison play (aka Black Ben the blacksmith) ; War movies ; The army ; Army life ; Hippy dippys ; Hank's place ; Improv, pt. 2 ; Mankind.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2013
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN PRYSummary: 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,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Educational Broadcasting Corp. 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792.23 MAKSummary: Selections from the works of more than seventy-five avant-garde comic artists come together in a definitive anthology that serves as a broad historical overview of the medium and a roundup of some of today's best North American comic artists--including Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, R. Crumb, Joe Sacco, Daniel Clowes, Lynda Barry, and many others.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2006