Author: James M. Spears
Publisher: James M. Spears
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
These stories are all true and I experienced them in a small town in east Texas. While all of them are filled with excitement, adventure, and humor, I told them as I remembered them. I'm sure that you could recall and remember your own childhood.
People and Events That'll Tickle You Half Crazy
Author: James M. Spears
Publisher: James M. Spears
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
These stories are all true and I experienced them in a small town in east Texas. While all of them are filled with excitement, adventure, and humor, I told them as I remembered them. I'm sure that you could recall and remember your own childhood.
Publisher: James M. Spears
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
These stories are all true and I experienced them in a small town in east Texas. While all of them are filled with excitement, adventure, and humor, I told them as I remembered them. I'm sure that you could recall and remember your own childhood.
Crazy People. Lunatics, and Complete Idiots
Author: James M. Spears
Publisher: James M. SPears
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
The funniest stories on the face of the Earth, told in detail as they happened will keep you laughing all day long.
Publisher: James M. SPears
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
The funniest stories on the face of the Earth, told in detail as they happened will keep you laughing all day long.
Pie in the Sky
Author: Remy Lai
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
Now That's Funny!
Author: Peter Desberg
Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 0757054455
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
There is a feeling of pure delight that comes from laughing out loud while watching a hilarious movie or a TV show. Yet as funny as these lines may be, they are the work of people you will never see. The magic behind any comedy hit begins when an idea is hatched in the mind of a comedy writer and is then put down on paper. And while few of us are privy to this fascinating process, for writers Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis, the challenge of observing and understanding how comedy is born has culminated in a unique new book, Now That’s Funny! Desberg and Davis provide an intimate look into the minds of twenty-four of Hollywood’s funniest comedy writers, who have given us such shows as: Saturday Night Live Monk Everybody Loves Raymond The Simpsons Frasier Maude Home Improvement Valerie Modern Family Cheers There’s Something about Mary The Honeymooners Suddenly Susan Newhart Sabrina the Teenage Witch Archie Bunker’s Place The Tracey Ullman Show Wings Who’s The Boss? and more How do you get to see the creative wheels turn? The authors’ premise was simple: Using a Q and A format, they provided each writer with a story idea and let them run with it. Each of the writers was told there were no rules, no boundaries, and no limits! Because everyone started with the same concept, the authors could see how some writers jumped in and began creating, while others asked lots of questions; how some writers stuck closely to the premise, while others turned it on its head. What emerges is an entertaining look—illuminating and hilarious in turn—at the creative process behind hit TV shows and movies. If you’re one of the millions who have enjoyed watching the work of comedy writers, here is an opportunity to go behind the scenes and see the madness unfold. Now that’s funny!
Publisher: Square One Publishers, Inc.
ISBN: 0757054455
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
There is a feeling of pure delight that comes from laughing out loud while watching a hilarious movie or a TV show. Yet as funny as these lines may be, they are the work of people you will never see. The magic behind any comedy hit begins when an idea is hatched in the mind of a comedy writer and is then put down on paper. And while few of us are privy to this fascinating process, for writers Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis, the challenge of observing and understanding how comedy is born has culminated in a unique new book, Now That’s Funny! Desberg and Davis provide an intimate look into the minds of twenty-four of Hollywood’s funniest comedy writers, who have given us such shows as: Saturday Night Live Monk Everybody Loves Raymond The Simpsons Frasier Maude Home Improvement Valerie Modern Family Cheers There’s Something about Mary The Honeymooners Suddenly Susan Newhart Sabrina the Teenage Witch Archie Bunker’s Place The Tracey Ullman Show Wings Who’s The Boss? and more How do you get to see the creative wheels turn? The authors’ premise was simple: Using a Q and A format, they provided each writer with a story idea and let them run with it. Each of the writers was told there were no rules, no boundaries, and no limits! Because everyone started with the same concept, the authors could see how some writers jumped in and began creating, while others asked lots of questions; how some writers stuck closely to the premise, while others turned it on its head. What emerges is an entertaining look—illuminating and hilarious in turn—at the creative process behind hit TV shows and movies. If you’re one of the millions who have enjoyed watching the work of comedy writers, here is an opportunity to go behind the scenes and see the madness unfold. Now that’s funny!
Laughter
Author: Fred Goodwin
Publisher: Lichtenstein Creative Media
ISBN: 1888064684
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher: Lichtenstein Creative Media
ISBN: 1888064684
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Freethinker
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free thought
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
My Little Wife and I
Author: Joseph Philbrick Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 6
Book Description
The Bookman
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Maximum Rocknroll
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Popular music
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Inside Jokes
Author: Matthew M. Hurley
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262518694
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This evolutionary and cognitive theory of humor seeks to reveal the complex science behind why we crack up. “A sophisticated analysis . . . written with clarity, good cheer, and, of course, wit.” ―Steven Pinker, author of How The Mind Works Some things are funny—jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed—but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature—aka natural selection—cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262518694
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
This evolutionary and cognitive theory of humor seeks to reveal the complex science behind why we crack up. “A sophisticated analysis . . . written with clarity, good cheer, and, of course, wit.” ―Steven Pinker, author of How The Mind Works Some things are funny—jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed—but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature—aka natural selection—cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.