This book is written by a stand-up comic, and it is dedicated to all the wonderful comics of the past and present and to his parents and little sister, who were in show business. Not only does it explain the tricks of the trade of being a comic, it also gives the reader one funny routine after another. Also, it relates how difficult it is to be a clown in today's workplace and how some, like George and Gracie Benny, are overcoming these conditions. It reminds us all about how important humor is. Indeed, a good belly-laugh will make one feel better. Even doctors agree to that. So if you need something to make you laugh or if you have forgotten how to make others laugh, this is the book for you.

If you need a smile, giggle, or belly laugh, this is the book for you. Betty White would love it. Dedicated to Peter Pan, it is filled with delightful funny pieces of the human condition. You not only will get a chuckle from the pieces but also get some giggles from the sketches of odd characters and the limericks they share. Children love to smile when they are photographed because they feel special.

Anyone interested in being surprised, having a rude awakening, and being shocked that causes them to see things in a different way will find this creative work stimulating. B. G. Webb refers to himself as a guru who lights gas lamplights in old London. Instead of drugs, the author presents an essay, a poem, a drawing, a photo, a piece of music after another to light up the readers mind to consider a different way to look at the mysteries of life. This exciting and, perhaps to some, a disturbing work is dedicated to the doubters of mankind such as Marie Currie, Albert Einstein, Rachel Carson, Pearl Buck, Stephen Hawking, Carl Jung, and all the others. So if you feel you are brave enough, buy this book and go from street to street on a psychedelic trip into the unknowninto the mysteries of lifeand hopefully, gain new insights. As you do, you will hear the music of India, the chants and sounds coming from holy men, and beautiful women dancing in unison to the rhythms of drums, zitars and tambourines. Om, om, om.

This book is written by a stand-up comic, and it is dedicated to all the wonderful comics of the past and present and to his parents and little sister, who were in show business. Not only does it explain the tricks of the trade of being a comic, it also gives the reader one funny routine after another. Also, it relates how difficult it is to be a clown in today's workplace and how some, like George and Gracie Benny, are overcoming these conditions. It reminds us all about how important humor is. Indeed, a good belly-laugh will make one feel better. Even doctors agree to that. So if you need something to make you laugh or if you have forgotten how to make others laugh, this is the book for you.

Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of 'The Western Canon', has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.

In A Vulgar Art, Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they recognize—“literature” or “theatre”; “editorial” or “morality”—and analyze it accordingly. A Vulgar Art begins with a more fundamental observation: someone is standing in front of a group of people, talking to them directly, and trying to make them laugh. So, this book takes the moment of performance as its focus, that stand-up comedy is a collaborative act between the comedian and the audience. Although the form of talk on the stage resembles talk among friends and intimates in social settings, stand-up comedy remains a profession. As such, it requires performance outside of the comedian's own community to gain larger and larger audiences. How do comedians recreate that atmosphere of intimacy in a roomful of strangers? This book regards everything from microphones to clothing and LPs to Twitter as strategies for bridging the spatial, temporal, and sociocultural distances between the performer and the audience.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A History of Pantomime" by R. J. Broadbent. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.