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Comedy at the Edge is a great book for any aspiring comic. It really gives you great insight about how comedy changed in the 70's, and what life was like for a comic of the era. Seriously, it's a really good read and will probably inspire you to give comedy a shot. Not to mention, some of the best comedians of all time give out little tidbits.
William Cook's top 10 books by comedians. William Cook. Published on Sun 3 Nov 2002 19.00 EST. William Cook writes the weekly comedy page in the Guardian Guide and a monthly comedy column for.
Top 10 Funniest Books According to AbeBooks.co.uk Customers. Right Ho, Jeeves by PG Wodehouse (1933) Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979) Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (1889) Wilt by Tom Sharpe (1976) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980) Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis.
The best film books, by 51 critics. Romantic Comedy in Hollywood: From Lubitsch to Sturges James Harvey, Alfred A. Knopf, 1987. Before arriving at this 720-page definitive compendium, I came very close to selecting the 1977 640-page The Compound Cinema: The Film Writings of Harry Alan Potamkin by a leftist intellectual of the 1920s and ’30s with a truly international grasp of cinema.
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One of the best things about books written by comedians doesn’t actually involve any reading — which is great if, like me, you’re a person who enjoys being entertained and being lazy simultaneously. Funny audiobooks present the added bonus of timing and inflection. When they’re read aloud by the author, which appears to be convention.
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I've read a few general books about screenplay format, structure, all that basic, elementary stuff. I'm wondering if there are some books you'd recommend about writing a comedy movie, how to make good jokes, how to get the most out of your jokes on screen, the logistics and 'scientific analysis' of what humour works onscreen, and anything about writing comedy movies in general.
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Before we get into the books, I wanted to ask you about essays generally. In your introduction to The Best American Essays of 2008 you have a rather nice phrase: “The essay is a classical form for short-winded Romantics.” What do you mean by that? What I mean is that in lots of ways essay writing is classical, in the sense that it works if it’s poised, elegant, compressed, composed.
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The best comedians are the ones who write their own material. However, not all great comedy can fit in a comic’s limited amount of stage time. So here are 12 essential books written by comedians, in no particular order. You’re going to want to read these. 12. America: The Book by writers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
