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Download or read book Humorists written by Paul Johnson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It is Johnson’s gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would…recognize them instantly, while also illuminating what made them heroes.” —Washington Post Book World on Heroes “Johnson is a clear, intelligent, forceful writer, and nothing if not thorough.” —Wall Street Journal Paul Johnson, the acclaimed author of Creators, Heroes, and the New York Times bestseller Intellectuals, returns with a captivating collection of biographical portraits of the Western world’s greatest wits and humorists. With chapters dedicated to history’s sharpest tongues and most piercing pens, including Benjamin Franklin, Toulouse-Lautrec, G.K. Chesterton, Damon Runyan, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, and many more, Johnson’s Humorists is an exciting compendium of our most enduring comical and satirical innovators.
Book Synopsis Country Music Humorists and Comedians by : Loyal Jones
Download or read book Country Music Humorists and Comedians written by Loyal Jones and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008-10-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an encyclopedia of country music performers who have used comedy as a central component of their presentation. Loyal Jones offers a conversational and informative biographical sketch of each performer, often including a sample of the musician's humor, a recording history, and amusing anecdotal tidbits. In an entertaining style, Jones covers performers throughout the twentieth century, from such early stars of vaudeville and radio barn dances as the Skillet Lickers and the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, to regulars on Hee Haw and the Grand Old Opry, continuing to current comedians such as the Austin Lounge Lizards, Ray Stevens, and Jeff Foxworthy.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of British Humorists by : Steven H. Gale
Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of American Humorists by : Steven H. Gale
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Book Synopsis American Humorists by : Hugh Reginald Haweis
Download or read book American Humorists written by Hugh Reginald Haweis and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Humorists written by Thorp and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Humorists - American Writers 42 was first published in 1964. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
Book Synopsis Humorists vs. Religion by : Iain Ellis
Download or read book Humorists vs. Religion written by Iain Ellis and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical humorists and religion are steeped in a long-standing cultural antagonism. This book recounts the dramatic skirmishes between religion—its dogma and edicts, political manifestations, and the nature of faith—and the satire, parody, jokes and hyperbole of popular wits. The writings of Twain, Vonnegut, Mencken and Hitchens are included, along with the films of Monty Python, the cartoons of Charlie Hebdo, the animated television series The Simpsons and South Park, the comedy of George Carlin and Bill Maher, the music of Randy Newman and Pussy Riot, the performance monologue of Julia Sweeney and the magic of Penn Jillette.
Book Synopsis The American Press Humorists' Book by : Frank Thompson Searight
Download or read book The American Press Humorists' Book written by Frank Thompson Searight and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century by :
Download or read book English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thackeray's English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book Thackeray's English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Father Goriot. The unconscious humorists. Gaudissart the Great by : Honoré de Balzac
Download or read book Father Goriot. The unconscious humorists. Gaudissart the Great written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Among the Humorists and After-dinner Speakers by : William Patten
Download or read book Among the Humorists and After-dinner Speakers written by William Patten and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis La comeÌdie humaine of HonoreÌ de Balzac: Father Goriot. The unconscious humorists. Gaudissart the Great by : HonoreÌ de Balzac
Download or read book La comeÌdie humaine of HonoreÌ de Balzac: Father Goriot. The unconscious humorists. Gaudissart the Great written by HonoreÌ de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thackeray's Lectures on the English Humorists by : William Makepeace Thackeray
Download or read book Thackeray's Lectures on the English Humorists written by William Makepeace Thackeray and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Humorists, a comedy in five acts and in prose , etc by : Thomas Shadwell
Download or read book The Humorists, a comedy in five acts and in prose , etc written by Thomas Shadwell and published by . This book was released on 1691 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rebels Wit Attitude written by Iain Ellis and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rock music has been the principal outlet of youth rebellion for more than half a century, and though rock rebels have been idolized and profiled extensively, their humor has not been at the center of attention. In Rebels Wit Attitude, music writer Iain Ellis throws a spotlight on the history of humor in rock music, and its use as a weapon of anti-establishment rebellion. The performers who are the subjects of Ellis’ study are not merely musicians or comedians—they are artists whose works exude defiance and resistance. Discussing the work of iconic figures as diverse as Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, the Beastie Boys, and Madonna, Ellis reveals how issues of politics, ethics, race, and gender, among others, have energized their expressions of rock (and) humor. Rebels Wit Attitude is an entertaining look at some of the greatest rebels in American rock culture and a fascinating history of humor and dissent.
Book Synopsis 101 Damnations by : Michael J. Rosen
Download or read book 101 Damnations written by Michael J. Rosen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-08-03 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dear flappable reader: Do you bristle at a handshake that resembles a limp fish? Do oblivious pedestrians bring you to the brink? What about museum gift shops, superfluous courtesy (do we need a gas pump to show us gratitude?), behemoth SUVS, or inexplicable operating manuals? Have you had it with screeching leaf blowers, beseeching telemarketers, escalating movie-ticket prices, or proliferating celebrity magazines? Is it children's choirs or karaoke singers, waiters bearing pepper grinders or dinner guests blathering on about salt, that drives you to distraction? For anyone who has recognized that this peaceful kingdom of ours has more than a few potholes, 101 Damnations is the perfect companion. It's your ticket to the nine circles of personal hell. Armed with wit, bewilderment, and words to the wise ass, today's leading humorists conduct a brief tour of the trivial and often universal exasperations we all must endure. Among the damning, Henry Alford reveals our wanton desire to affect Britishisms. Sandra Tsing Loh has it in for people who forward "funny" e-mails. Once and for all, Merrill Markoe sets forth cell phone etiquette. And there are many, many others. Ninety-eight to be exact. Make yourself comfortable. Misery loves company.
