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The Giants of Comedy

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Publisher: Rosen Young Adult

Published: 2015-12-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781508170273

Great comedians make us laugh and also make us think about the world we live in. This series provides an insightful, irreverent biography of some of the most talented and influential comedians working today. Readers will learn how they became interested in making people laugh, the steps they took to make a career out of comedy, and their influence on popular culture and news. Each comedian's writing craft is highlighted, as is his or her power as a social commentator who shapes the public's perception of the news through satire. Features include: Timelines detail significant moments in each comedian's career. Includes samples from critical reviews of each comedian's work. Presents sophisticated comedy, which is the medium through which teens view, interpret, experience, interrogate, and debate with the wider world and society.

Kate McKinnon

Author: C. R. McKay

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1508188688

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Kate McKinnon shot to fame for her outrageous humor, spot-on impressions, and politically relevant satire. As the first openly gay female member of Saturday Night Live, McKinnon has become an icon of LGBT+ comedians on television and the big screen. McKinnon's childhood sparked her love of making people laugh, which led to her performance in several sketch shows, movies, and her biggest role yet on Saturday Night Live. Readers will be captivated as they learn about the many voices of Kate McKinnon as she makes comedy history, one laugh at a time.

The Giants of Comedy: Sets 1 - 2

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Publisher: Rosen Young Adult

Published: 2019-07-30

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ISBN-13: 9781499467789

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Great comedians make us laugh and also make us think about the world we live in. This series provides insightful, irreverent biographies of some of the most talented and influential comedians working today. Readers will learn how they became interested in making people laugh, the steps they took to make a career out of comedy, and their influence on popular culture and news. Each comedian's use of writing craft is highlighted, as is his or her power as a social commentator who shapes the public's perception of the news through satire. Features include: Timelines of each comedian's work. Samples from critical reviews. Presents sophisticated comedy, which is the medium through which teens view, interpret, experience, interrogate, and debate with the wider world and society. Sidebars and Further Information Sections encourage further exploration.

The Giants of Comedy (Fall 2019) (Set)

Author: Various

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781725340121

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Comedian Jordan Peele's Get Out confused many film festival leaders and moviegoers. Was it a comedy, drama, or horror flick? Peele answered them that it was a documentary. For hundreds of years, satire has provided an honest critique on society, making the artful comedian someone to celebrate. This series provides insightful biographies of some of the most talented and influential comedians working today including Jordan Peele, Tiffany Haddish, and Trevor Noah. Each biography covers the comedian's childhood, how they became interested in making people laugh, and the steps they took to make a career out of comedy. Readers will learn about each comedian's rise to prominence and their influences on popular culture. Comedians are often walking a fine line between political correctness and a creative license that can offend, shock, or critique and challenge prevailing personal and social assumptions and orthodoxies, this series uniquely celebrates that fact. Features include: Timelines of each comedian's work. Samples from critical reviews. Presents sophisticated comedy, which is the medium through which teens view, interpret, experience, interrogate, and debate with the wider world and society. Sidebars and Further Information sections encourage further exploration.

Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key

Author: Vanessa Oswald

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1508188653

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From the small screen to the big time, Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key have made waves across the United States and the world. Branching out beyond comedy, the two have been involved in hit feature films, and their innate ability to combine comedy with a sharp sense for social commentary has put them on the path toward continued success in an industry that has not had many African American superstars. Inspire your readers with this biography of two giants in comedy.

King of Comedy

Author: Shawn Levy

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13: 0312132484

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A biography of Jerry Lewis, discussing his varied career as a performer, director, fundraiser, and standard-setting comedian, and looking at the private man and the forces that drive him.

Al Franken, Giant of the Senate

Author: Al Franken

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1455540439

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From Senator Al Franken - #1 bestselling author and beloved SNL alum -- comes the story of an award-winning comedian who decided to run for office and then discovered why award-winning comedians tend not to do that. "Flips the classic born-in-a-shack rise to political office tale on its head. I skipped meals to read this book - also unusual - because every page was funny. It made me deliriously happy." -- Louise Erdrich, The New York Times This is a book about an unlikely campaign that had an even more improbable ending: the closest outcome in history and an unprecedented eight-month recount saga, which is pretty funny in retrospect. It's a book about what happens when the nation's foremost progressive satirist gets a chance to serve in the United States Senate and, defying the low expectations of the pundit class, actually turns out to be good at it. It's a book about our deeply polarized, frequently depressing, occasionally inspiring political culture, written from inside the belly of the beast. In this candid personal memoir, the honorable gentleman from Minnesota takes his army of loyal fans along with him from Saturday Night Live to the campaign trail, inside the halls of Congress, and behind the scenes of some of the most dramatic and/or hilarious moments of his new career in politics. Has Al Franken become a true Giant of the Senate? Franken asks readers to decide for themselves.

Save Yourself

Author: Cameron Esposito

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2020-03-24

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1455591440

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This "hilarious and honest" bestselling memoir from a rising comedy star tackles issues of gender, sexuality, feminism, and the Catholic childhood that prepared her for a career as an outspoken lesbian comedian (Abby Wambach). Cameron Esposito wanted to be a priest and ended up a stand-up comic. Now she would like to tell the whole queer as hell story. Her story. Not the sidebar to a straight person's rebirth-she doesn't give a makeover or plan a wedding or get a couple back together. This isn't a queer tragedy. She doesn't die at the end of this book, having finally decided to kiss the girl. It's the sexy, honest, bumpy, and triumphant dyke's tale her younger, wasn't-allowed-to-watch-Ellen self needed to read. Because there was a long time when she thought she wouldn't make it. Not as a comic, but as a human. SAVE YOURSELF is full of funny and insightful recollections about everything from coming out (at a Catholic college where sexual orientation wasn't in the nondiscrimination policy) to how joining the circus can help you become a better comic (so much nudity) to accepting yourself for who you are-even if you're, say, a bowl cut-sporting, bespectacled, gender-nonconforming child with an eye patch (which Cameron was). Packed with heart, humor, and cringeworthy stories anyone who has gone through puberty, fallen in love, started a career, or had period sex in Rome can relate to, Cameron's memoir is for that timid, fenced-in kid in all of us-and the fearless stand-up yearning to break free. INDIE BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERSEATTLE TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF MARCH

Funny Business

Author: Jeff Silverman

Publisher: HBG

Published: 2011-08-10

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1596597933

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For the last twenty-five years, Jeff Silverman has been the President of Yuk Yuk's comedy club: one of the world's largest stand-up comedy chains. With a career spanning more than forty years, Jeff has helped launch the careers of Jim Carey, Howie Mandel and Russell Peters, and started his business career with the 99-cent Roxy Theatre back in the '70s, showcasing cult underground movie marathons. He went on to run the New Yorker Theatre and Horseshoe Tavern music venues, bringing in bands like The Police and The Ramones for the very first time. In the '80s, Jeff turned his attention to television production, and produced Canada's first all-night television show, The All-Night Show, which was a fusion of zany experimental television, old favorites and interactive programming never seen on the air before, or since.

A Funny Thing About Love

Author: The Estate of Rebecca Farnworth

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-08-05

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1407071505

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The funny thing about love is that just when you think you've got it sorted, it turns round and bites you on the behind. Which is exactly what's happened to Carmen Miller. Her ex husband's girlfriend is pregnant, her career as a comedy agent is going down the pan, she's made a fool of herself with fellow agent Will Hunter, a man she's fancied for ages, and to cap it all she has to move out of her flat. Surely things can't get any worse. Moving down to Brighton to write the TV comedy series that she's always dreamed about, Carmen meets the divine Daniel. A man so gorgeous, she doesn't even mind that he's got long hair. It seems that Carmen's life is on the up again. Until, that is... love bites again. Looks like Carmen's back where she started. But could it be that love isn't the problem? Maybe she's just been choosing the wrong men.