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Comedy Central: The Essential Guide to Comedy

Name: Comedy Central: The Essential Guide to Comedy
Author: Christopher Claro, Julie Klam
ISBN: 9781572971080

by Christopher Claro, Julie Klam

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Comedy Central: The Essential Guide To Comedy is the definitive, fact-packed, list-filled guide to humor and where to find it--on-screen, on stage, on CD or on the printed page. From stand-ups to sitcoms, The Simpsons to Saturday Night Live, it's the only book of its kind--A comprehensive compendium that no one who likes to laugh should be without.

From standups to sitcoms, The Simpsons to Saturday Night Live, this is the book that no one who likes to laugh should be without. Designed for lively reading with photos, sidebars, excerpts, and lists, it runs the gamut from an overview of the late-night talk show scene to interviews with hot young standup comics. Comedy Central: The Essential Guide to Comedy is a backstage pass to the business and a behind-the-scenes tour with the talents who make it happen. 256 pp. National ads, publicity.

About the Author, Christopher Claro, Julie Klam

Julie Klam grew up in Bedford, New York. After attending NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and interning at Late Night with David Letterman, she wrote for such publications as O, The Oprah Magazine, Rolling Stone, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, and The New York Times Magazine, and for the VH1 television show Pop-Up Video, where she earned an Emmy nomination. She lives with her husband, daughter, and several dogs in Manhattan.

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Comedy Central provides cable viewers with a veritable comedic cornucopia, from comedy specials to movies to British sitcom imports and more. According to the authors, this abundance of amusementalong with all the network sitcoms and comedy books, recordings, and clubs now popularmay be daunting to the dilettante. They offer here a guidebook to the land of laffs for those who don't know a spit-take from a spitball. In a light, casual style, they discuss all the aforementioned comedy formats and introduce the reader to nine of the newest "open mikers," comics who are just this side of major celebrity status. Two chapters are particularly amusing: one on "The Rules of Comedy," in which a few classic jokes and stock situations are examined in humorous style, and one on "The Future of Comedy." Die-hard comedy fans will already know this stuff, but this is an inexpensive way to update the humor section of general collections.Carolyn M. Mulac, Chicago P.L.