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Stand-Up Comedy in Chicago
Ten years after Chicago saw its first full-time comedy club open, the landscape was decidedly different. "Stand-up comedy has exploded in the last couple of years," a club owner told the Chicago Tribune in 1985, "that's the only way to describe it: exploded." It was truly a comedy boom, with as many as 16 clubs operating at once, and it lasted nearly a decade before fading, taking with it some of Chicago's oldest comedy stages, including the Comedy Cottage, Comedy Womb, and Who's on First. Still, stalwarts like Barrel of Laughs (south) and Zanies (north) persevered. That part of the story is known; overlooked is the fact there was a comedy boom, period. To hear the story, it is as if stand-up comedy innately morphed from a dated nightclub scene to what one Chicago Sun-Times writer called "Chicago's atomic comedy blast."
The Comedy Bible
(back cover) From improv to standup, and from satire to slapstick, this essential guide will show you how to get yourself a cult following or achieve mainstream success in comedy. Covering skills that range from writing your material to conveying physical expressiveness, this comprehensive reference book instructs and advises novice comedians in all media--neighborhood standup clubs, theater, TV sitcom, and political commentary. The authors emphasize practical methodology as they explain the art and craft of comedy. Step-by-step instruction and advice in voice training, timing, rehearsing, and interacting with your audience are presented with detailed illustrations that help make this book as accessible as it is informative. The authors--both of them working today as standups on the comedy circuit--discuss both classic and alternative comedy. They draw examples from a vast range of comedians as they illustrate each technique and inspire novice comedians to learn and ultimately perfect their craft. Also Available for Aspiring Actors-- The Acting Bible
Archie's Christmas Stocking
Archie's Christmas Stocking is filled with enough holiday cheer to keep you warm longer than any lump of coal... though given the mischief, mayhem and mistletoe in these stories, coal may be exactly what some of Archie's pals 'n' gals should expect! Plus, here's your Christmas bonus—a brand new Betty and Veronica Spectacular holiday story! So join Archie, Jughead, Betty, Veronica and all their families and friends for Christmas in Riverdale!
Birdland
Gilbert Hernandez' sensationally semen-drenched fantasia is still the hottest Eros comic of them all. With a delightfully deviant cast featuring driping exploits of two spunky strippers, an oversexed psychiatrist and her philandering husband.
Design Struggles
This publication offers a critical assessment of the complicity of design in creating, perpetuating, and reinforcing social, political, and environmental problems, both today and in the past. It proposes going against the grain by problematising Western notions of design to foster situated, decolonial, and queer-feminist modes of disciplinary self-critique, and looks at design through the intersections of gender, culture, ethnicity, and class. Applying robust scholarly insight with engaging and accessible modes of conveyance and storytelling, an urgent and expansive array of voices and views emerge from those engaged in struggles with, against, or around the field of design.
The Psycho File
An examination of the groundbreaking 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, including the story's origins in real-life graverobber Ed Gein. The book presents material from the script and how it was adapted from Robert Bloch's novel; details of the film's production, particularly the shower scene and other technical difficulties; actors and the challenges of their roles; extended literary analysis of the film covering such devices as irony, symbol, theme, motif and foil; and the film's effect on audiences. Features 16 photographs, notes, bibliography and index.
Comedy Techniques
From improv to stand-up, and from satire to slapstick, here's an essential guide on how to get yourself a cult following or mainstream success. Covering a range of skills from writing your material to physical expressiveness, this comprehensive reference is designed for comedians in all media- stand-up clubs, theatre and TV sitcom, and political comment. This is a practical guide to the art of comedy. From voice training to timing, and from rehearsals to interacting with the audience, step-by-step advice is provided, accompanied by detailed illustrations.The authors (both working as standups on the comedy circuit today) discuss both classic and alternative comedy, and draw examples from a vast range of comedians to illustrate each technique and inspire the novice comedian as they learn their craft.
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