Chinn, Laura
Summary: "Laura Chinn tells her by turns horrifying and hilarious story of growing up with non-conformist, irresponsible parents and countless family tragedies (and really bad, chronic acne) and how she found happiness despite everything"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, a subsidiary of Hachette Book Group, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHINN, LAURA CHISummary: Enjoy the best of one of America's most popular TV comedies with a phenomenal cast. The special 50th anniversary collection includes 20 classic episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2011
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV DICAbdoh, Salar
Summary: "Saleh, the narrator of Out of Mesopotamia, is a middle-aged Iranian journalist who moonlights as a writer for one of Iran's most popular TV shows but cannot keep himself away from the front lines in neighboring Iraq and Syria. There, the fight against the Islamic State is a proxy war, an existential battle, a declaration of faith, and, for some, a passing weekend affair. After weeks spent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Akashic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABDPritchett, Georgia
Summary: "When Georgia Pritchett found herself lost for words - a bit of a predicament for a comedy writer - she booked an appointment with a therapist, who suggested that she try writing down some of the things that worried her. The therapist probably meant a light, mid-week grocery-list's worth of worries. Instead, Georgia wrote this book. From fretting about the monsters under her bed as a child...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRITCHETT, GEORGIA PRIManzano, Sonia
Summary: A coming-of-age memoir by the actress and writer offers a look into the daily lives of a loving, but troubled, Latino family and a girl kept afloat amid the turbulence of her life and times by the dream of becoming an actress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 MANZANO, SONIA MANWong, Ali
Summary: "In her hit Netflix comedy special Baby Cobra, an eight-month pregnant Ali Wong resonated so strongly with viewers that she became a popular Halloween costume. Wong told the world her remarkably unfiltered thoughts on marriage, sex, working women, and why you never see new-mom comics on stage but you sure see plenty of new dads. Wong's sharp insights and humor are even more personal in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WONG, ALI WONFey, Tina
Summary: Follows the behind-the-scenes antics of the crew of a late-night sketch comedy show based in New York.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: The complete seventh and final season of the award-winning comedy. As Jack schemes to take control of KableTown or sink the whole company trying, Liz strives to balance her uncharacteristically blissful personal life with the constant chaos of her career. Even with Kenneth Parcell, life-long NBC devotee, around to tend to TGS' lovable misfit stars Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney, mayhem ensues...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: Starring Larry David as an over-the-top version of himself, the iconic Emmy and Golden Globe-winning comedy series offers a tongue-in-cheek depiction of the writer/producer/comedian's fictionalized life. Season eleven finds Larry once again seeking and dispensing his own peculiar brand of social justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: ​​Larry's back -- and that's pritty, pritty, pritty good news! Six years after the award-winning Curb Your Enthusiasm ended its last season, HBO brought back the hit series starring writer/producer/comedian Larry David as ... writer/producer/comedian Larry David. Each episode features verité-style footage of David (playing himself) as he gets into everyday predicaments with both...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Go behind-the-scenes of a live sketch comedy show. Watch as Jack comes back to GE; Liz gets a visit from an adoption agency caseworker; Liz sits next to Oprah on her flight from Chicago to New York; Tracy and Jenna conduct a 'social experiment;' Jack hooks up with Liz's psycho ex-roommate; Liz thinks she has found the perfect mate; Don Geiss wakes from his coma; Jack falls in love with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: The series proves how seemingly trivial details of one's day-to-day life, a trip to the grocery store, a remark at a dinner party, a fender-bender, can precipitate a 'Murphy's Law' chain of misfortune to hilarious effect. To keep the narrative spontaneous, Curb is shot without a script; cast members are given scene outlines and often improvise lines as they go.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Sittenfeld, Curtis
Summary: "Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction SittenfeldHenderson, Danielle
Summary: "A sharp, hilarious memoir about a nontraditional upbringing and growing up Black in a predominantly white community"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HENDERSON, DANIELLE HENResnick, Adam.
Summary: "An unabashedly hilarious memoir-in-essays from Adam Resnick, former writer for Late Night with David Letterman"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RESNICK, ADAM RESSummary: Larry contemplates his future with an ailing Loretta, and decides on a novel approach to winning back Cheryl. In addition to Larry finding himself embroiled in usual cauldron of self-made crises, he orchestrates a reunion with the entire cast of Seinfeld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2010
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Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: New Millennium Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 REINER, CARL REISummary: An insightful and fast-moving comic look at the world of network television development, as it goes through the network TV process of casting, production, and finally airing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TVIsaacs, Susan
Summary: Having been fired from her CIA dream job without an explanation thirteen years earlier, cable television writer Katie Schottland is enlisted for help by a former colleague who offers insight into the mystery of Katie's dismissal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ISAWilson, John Morgan
Summary: Reporter Benjamin Justice, in disgrace after winning the Pulitzer Prize for a story he fabricated, investigates the mutilation murders of gay film directors in Los Angeles. The probe takes him into the world of sadomasochism. By the author of Revision of Justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILSittenfeld, Curtis
Summary: A sketch writer for a late-night comedy show, Sally Milz pokes fun at the phenomenon of talented but average men who've gotten romantically involved with beautiful women and how the reverse never happens, until she meets a pop music sensation who flips the script on all her assumptions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SITCabot, Meg.
Summary: Meena Harper, forced to write about vampires even though she doesn't believe in them, falls in love with Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side. It's a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire hunters, would prefer to see him dead for. The problem is: Lucien's already dead! And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CABMcMurtry, Larry.
Summary: Danny's eccentric way of life is interrupted when T.R., the daughter he has never met, brings her children and lovers to live with him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1989
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCMNoxon, Christopher
Summary: "Christopher Noxon's debut novel Plus One is a comedic take on bread-winning women and caretaking men in contemporary Los Angeles. Alex Sherman-Zicklin is a mid-level marketing executive whose wife's fourteenth attempt at a TV pilot is produced, ordered to series, and awarded an Emmy. Overnight, she's sucked into a mad show-business vortex and he's tasked with managing their new high-profile...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prospect Park Books 2015