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Spinning Laughter: Profiles of 111 Proposed Comedy Spin-Offs and Sequels That Never Became a Series (Hardback)

Author : Richard Irvin
Publisher : BearManor Media
ISBN 13 : 9781593931988
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Spinning Laughter: Profiles of 111 Proposed Comedy Spin-Offs and Sequels That Never Became a Series (Hardback) written by Richard Irvin and published by BearManor Media. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the HARDBACK version. Spinning Laughter: Profiles of 111 Proposed Comedy Spin-offs and Sequels that Never Became a Series. The Andy Griffith Show begat Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C. The Mary Tyler Moore Show spun-off Rhoda and Phyllis. An episode of All in the Family became Maude and another episode became The Jeffersons. You remember the successful spin-offs, but you may now know about the spin-offs that never were. Why did the characters of Fred and Ethel Mertz from I Love Lucy never star in their own spin-off? What animated spin-off pilot could be considered a forerunner of The Simpsons? Which situation comedy has had the greatest number of attempted spin-offs? Why did the idea of a Krusty the Clown spin-off from The Simpsons never become a series? What could have been the first gay family comedy? What was the live-action Monsignor Martinez pilot from the King of the Hill series all about? Discover rare summaries of treatments, scripts, and pilots along with comments from fifty writers, directors, producers, and actors involved with proposed spin-offs and sequels: actress Elinor Donahue remarks about the Father Knows Best reunion movies; actor Patrick Cassidy talks about his audition for The Nanny spin-off; former actress Sheila James describes why her character, Zelda from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, never got her own series; Eddie Mekka from Laverne & Shirley comments on the Lenny & Squiggy in the Army spin-off. Richard Irvin is also the author of Forgotten Laughs: An Episode Guide to 150 Sitcoms You Probably Never Saw (Bear Manor Media).

Spinning Laughter: Profiles of 111 Proposed Comedy Spin-Offs and Sequels That Never Became a Series

Author : Richard Irvin
Publisher : BearManor Media
ISBN 13 : 9781593931971
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Spinning Laughter: Profiles of 111 Proposed Comedy Spin-Offs and Sequels That Never Became a Series written by Richard Irvin and published by BearManor Media. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinning Laughter: Profiles of 111 Proposed Comedy Spin-offs and Sequels that Never Became a Series. The Andy Griffith Show begat Gomer Pyle: U.S.M.C. The Mary Tyler Moore Show spun-off Rhoda and Phyllis. An episode of All in the Family became Maude and another episode became The Jeffersons. You remember the successful spin-offs, but you may now know about the spin-offs that never were. Why did the characters of Fred and Ethel Mertz from I Love Lucy never star in their own spin-off? What animated spin-off pilot could be considered a forerunner of The Simpsons? Which situation comedy has had the greatest number of attempted spin-offs? Why did the idea of a Krusty the Clown spin-off from The Simpsons never become a series? What could have been the first gay family comedy? What was the live-action Monsignor Martinez pilot from the King of the Hill series all about? Discover rare summaries of treatments, scripts, and pilots along with comments from fifty writers, directors, producers, and actors involved with proposed spin-offs and sequels: actress Elinor Donahue remarks about the Father Knows Best reunion movies; actor Patrick Cassidy talks about his audition for The Nanny spin-off; former actress Sheila James describes why her character, Zelda from The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, never got her own series; Eddie Mekka from Laverne & Shirley comments on the Lenny & Squiggy in the Army spin-off. Richard Irvin is also the author of Forgotten Laughs: An Episode Guide to 150 Sitcoms You Probably Never Saw (Bear Manor Media).

Final Spin

Author : Jocko Willink
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250276861
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Final Spin written by Jocko Willink and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER #1 New York Times bestselling author Jocko Willink’s fast-paced thriller Final Spin: a story of love, brotherhood, suffering, happiness, and sacrifice. A story about life. Johnny... Shouldn’t be in a dead-end job. Shouldn’t be in a dead-end bar. Shouldn’t be in a dead-end life. But he is. It’s a hamster wheel existence. Stocking warehouse store shelves by day, drinking too much whiskey and beer by night. In between, Johnny lives in his childhood home, making sure his alcoholic mother hasn’t drunk herself to death, and looking after his idiosyncratic older brother Arty, whose world revolves around his laundromat job. Rinse and repeat. Then Johnny’s monotonous life takes a tumble. The laundromat where Arty works, and the one thing that gives him happiness, is about to be sold. Johnny doesn't want that to happen, so he takes measures into his own hands. Johnny, along with his friend, Goat, come up with a plan to get the money to buy the laundromat. But things don’t always go as planned...

Debates in the House of Assembly in the First Session of the Twelfth Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope, April 22nd to April 27th, 1908

Author : Cape of Good Hope. House of Assembly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 802 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Debates in the House of Assembly in the First Session of the Twelfth Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope, April 22nd to April 27th, 1908 written by Cape of Good Hope. House of Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century

Author : Peter J. A. Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198843542
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century written by Peter J. A. Jones and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards the end of the twelfth century, powerful images of laughing kings and saints began to appear in texts circulating at the English royal court. At the same time, contemporaries began celebrating the wit, humour, and laughter of King Henry II (r.1154-89) and his martyred Archbishop of Canterbury, Saint Thomas Becket (d.1170). Taking a broad genealogical approach, Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century traces the emergence of this powerful laughter through an immersive study of medieval intellectual, literary, social, religious, and political debates. Focusing on a cultural renaissance in England, the study situates laughter at the heart of the defining transformations of the second half of the 1100s. With an expansive survey of theological and literary texts, bringing a range of unedited manuscript material to light in the process, Peter J. A. Jones exposes how twelfth-century writers came to connect laughter with spiritual transcendence and justice, and how this connection gave humour a unique political and spiritual power in both text and action. Ultimately, Jones argues that England's popular images of laughing kings and saints effectively reinstated a sublime charismatic authority, something truly rebellious at a moment in history when bureaucracy and codification were first coming to dominate European political life.

Transactions

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Transactions written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Constitution, by-laws and list of members.

Gale Storm

Author : David C. Tucker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476632464
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Gale Storm written by David C. Tucker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-05-27 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 31, 1939, nationwide radio audiences listened as 17-year-old Josephine Owaissa Cottle, a Texas schoolgirl, won Gateway to Hollywood’s new talent competition. Her prize was a movie contract at RKO and a memorable stage name—“Gale Storm.” One of the United States’ most beloved entertainers, she appeared in 35 films, starred in two hit television series (one was My Little Margie) and earned a gold record for “I Hear You Knockin’.” Drawing on interviews with family, friends and colleagues, this biography provides many unpublished details of her life and career. An annotated filmography encompasses Storm’s time at Monogram Pictures, her roles in westerns and her appearances in classics such as It Happened on 5th Avenue. Her TV career is covered, including complete production histories and episode guides.

Enjoyment of Laughter

Author : Max Eastman
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412822629
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Enjoyment of Laughter written by Max Eastman and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1936 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element, but most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from the comic papers, or classic witticisms jerked out of their context. Max Eastman, in this work, avoids this catastrophe by quoting mainly from contemporary American humor. This is not an anthology in that selections have been made with a view to making a point rather than covering the field. The purpose of Eastman's fabled work is to make the reader laugh. Since his early school days, it has seemed to him that textbooks are wrongly written in that they are conducted in a way which ignores the natural operation of the mind. As a result, the opinion is universal, and under the circumstances a fact, that in order to learn anything you have to study. Since this introduction to humor is itself near to writing a textbook, Eastman uses the very text he constructs to illustrate the manner in which textbooks should be written. Examination and classification of the kinds of humorous experience upon the basis of a theory is a science. As such, this work offers a fair chance to illustrate a method of instruction. However, the distinction between a good joke and a bad one will not prevent the reader from making bad jokes nor enable one to make good ones. There is an artistic and playful element that simply cannot be taught. Enjoyment of Laughter presents a total view of the science of laughter and draws upon some of the great American humorists to do so. Max Eastman (1883-1969) was an American writer, patron of the Harlem Renaissance, and was best known for his views as well as his rejection of the ideas of socialism and communism. He wrote numerous controversial critiques of contemporary literature authors as well as many books including Seven Kinds of Goodness, Love and Revolution: My Journey through an Epoch, and Enjoyment of Living. William Fry is Emeritus Associate Clinical Professor at Stanford University, Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry.

Before and Laughter

Author : Jimmy Carr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781529413113
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Before and Laughter written by Jimmy Carr and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians - for anyone who feels stuck in a rut but doesn't have the tools or self-belief to shake things up*In his mid-twenties, Jimmy was bored, boring, unfulfilled and underachieving. He wasn't exactly depressed, but he was very sad. Think of a baby owl whose mum has recently died in a windmill accident. He was that sad. This book tells the story of how Jimmy turned it around and got happy, through the redemptive power of dick jokes.Written to take advantage of the brief window between the end of lockdown and Jimmy getting cancelled for saying something unforgivable to Lorraine Kelly, this book is as timely as it is unnecessary. Because you might be interested in Jimmy's life but he's damn sure you're a lot more interested in your own, Before & Laughter is about both of you. But mainly him. It tells the story of Jimmy's life - the transformation from white-collar corporate drone to fake-toothed donkey-laugh plastic-haired comedy mannequin - while also explaining how to turn your own life around and become the you you've always dreamt of being. At just 20, it's cheaper than Scientology, quicker than therapy, and significantly less boring than church.Before & Laughter contains the answers to all the big questions in life, questions like:What's the secret to happiness?Is Jimmy wearing a wig?What happened with that tax thing?What's the meaning of life?Is Jimmy's laugh real?Can those teeth bite through vibranium?And for readers in the West Country: yes, there are pictures (actually, sorry, there are no pictures, but there's a book about a hungry caterpillar you'll love).Because it's Jimmy Carr - recently scientifically proved to be the funniest comedian in the UK - there are jokes, jokes and more jokes throughout. If laughter really was the best medicine, the NHS would be handing out this book in Nightingale Hospitals.Fascinating, thoughtful and insightful - are all words that appear in the book.

A History of English Laughter

Author : Manfred Pfister
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042012882
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book A History of English Laughter written by Manfred Pfister and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a 'history' of laughter? Or isn't laughter an anthropological constant rather and thus beyond history, a human feature that has defined humanity as homo ridens from cave man and cave woman to us? The contributors to this collection of essays believe that laughter does have a history and try to identify continuities and turning points of this history by studying a series of English texts, both canonical and non-canonical, from Anglosaxon to contemporary. As this is not another book on the history of the comic or of comedy it does not restrict itself to comic genres; some of the essays actually go out of their way to discover laughter at the margins of texts where one would not have expected it all - in Beowulf, or Paradise Lost or the Gothic Novel. Laughter at the margins of texts, which often coincides with laughter from the margins of society and its orthodoxies, is one of the special concerns of this book. This goes together with an interest in 'impure' forms of laughter - in laughter that is not the serene and intellectually or emotionally distanced response to a comic stimulus which is at the heart of many philosophical theories of the comic, but emotionally disturbed and troubled, aggressive and transgressive, satanic and sardonic laughter. We do not ask, then, what is comic, but: who laughs at and with whom where, when, why, and how?

Sparks of Laughter

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sparks of Laughter written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States

Author : United States. President
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Joy of Laughter

Author : Norman Barasch
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781440167102
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book The Joy of Laughter written by Norman Barasch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir, rich with humor, a comedy writer guides us on his personal journey from the impoverished depths of the Great Depression to the top of his profession. Despite the ups and downs, the joys and sorrows, he helped produce laugh lines for performers from the gagster, Henny Youngman, to sketch writing for the brilliant comedienne, Carol Burnett. He also wrote for the Benson and Rhoda television series as well as numerous weekly variety shows and sitcoms, featuring such stars as Danny Kaye, Dom DeLuise, Fred Allen, Herb Shriner, Alan King, Nathan Lane, and countless others. As a Playwright, he wrote Broadway-produced plays in collaboration with his long-time partner, the late Carroll B. Moore, Jr. One such play, Send Me No Flowers, became a hit movie, starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day. He later wrote the bittersweet off-Broadway comedy Standing By, as a tribute to the courage of his daughter, Emily, in her battle against a serious disease. The Joy of Laughter also provides an intimate peek into some of the more hilarious behind-the-scenes professional and personal shenanigans of the Broadway/Hollywood/Beverly Hills show business community.

A Killer Stitch

Author : Maggie Sefton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101207299
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book A Killer Stitch written by Maggie Sefton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House of Lambspun has been bombarded for the holidays. In the midst of overflowing bins of sumptuous yarn, unexpected winter romance now buzzes, in chorus with the spindles of shy new spinning instructor Lucy Adair. But when a rancher is found dead in Bellevue Canyon, avid knitter and sometime-sleuth Kelly Flynn quickly puts these festive pastimes aside. With his reputation for lovin’ and leavin’ the ladies of Fort Connor, it seems a little strange that the victim’s final admirer was a fiancée...none other than the hopelessly bereaved Lucy Adair. Unluckily, Kelly also finds herself linked to the prime suspect in the case—a rejected ex-lover of the playboy rancher. Charged with keeping both spinner and spurned from going over the edge, she’ll discover more than a few secrets tangled on this triad’s bobbin. Delicious recipe and knitting pattern included!

Independent Thinking on Laughter

Author : Dave Keeling
Publisher : Crown House Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178135345X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Independent Thinking on Laughter written by Dave Keeling and published by Crown House Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Keeling's Independent Thinking on Laughter: Using humour as a tool to engage and motivate all learners is an uplifting manifesto packed with tips and techniques to help educators unleash the power of humour and laughter in the learning environment. Foreword by Ian Gilbert. Education is too important to be taken seriously: everyone in our schools from the youngest learner to the, ahem, 'most senior' teacher likes to laugh. And beyond the many stress-busting and morale-boosting benefits that laughter brings on an individual level, the collective rewards of laughter in the classroom setting are also numerous such as enhancing openness and teamwork, stimulating imagination and creativity and, above all, strengthening the student-teacher relationship. No one is more familiar with the power of classroom conviviality than 'stand-up educationalist' and Independent Thinking Associate Dave Keeling, who in this book takes readers on an enlightening journey into the part that humour can play in improving the learning experience for all concerned. Writing with his trademark wit, Dave shares handy hints acquired from his experience in the world of comedy and offers a veritable smorgasbord of activities for use with learners all proven to generate laughter, enhance learning and make the teacher look great. The teacher's mission, if they choose to accept it, is to take these ideas and exercises and adapt, enjoy, explore and generally mess about with them to their heart's content. An inspiring read for all teachers and educators. Independent Thinking on Laughter is an updated edition of The Little Book of Laughter (ISBN 9781781350089) and is one of a number of books in the Independent Thinking On series from the award-winning Independent Thinking Press.

Noah

Author : Viggo P. Hansen
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1449066429
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Noah written by Viggo P. Hansen and published by Author House. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every sailor and wanna-be sailor, whether they know it or not, is in direct contact with a personal god or gods - however many there may be. What we sailors fail to appreciate is that the gods are constantly trying to get in touch with us, but we ignore their messages since we are either too busy sailing or drinking beer. Keep this thought firmly in mind next time you untie your dock lines

Laughter That Will Knock Your Socks Off

Author : Paul W. Tastad
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 164913374X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Laughter That Will Knock Your Socks Off written by Paul W. Tastad and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughter That Will Knock Your Socks Off By: Paul W. Tastad Laughter That Will Knock Your Socks Off is a collection of jokes, phrases, puns, and quips that are sure to keep you laughing. With Paul W. Tastad’s observations on doctors, family, entertainment, and more, along with his delightful word play, and comic worldview, this hilarious book will without a doubt brighten anyone’s day!