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The Comedy Diva Diaries

Author : Kirsten Van Ritzen
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781475949254
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Comedy Diva Diaries written by Kirsten Van Ritzen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Comedy Diva Diaries is the tale of a twenty-nine year old comedienne who gives herself an ultimatum: achieve success before her next birthday, or die trying. Our sassy, deluded and insecure heroine endures disastrous stand-up gigs and humiliating TV commercial auditions. Her rich boyfriend, pampered pooch, flamboyant agent, dysfunctional family and back-stabbing rivals arent much help. On the brink of emotional collapse, Diva finds inspiration in a self help book, and makes the fateful decision to move across the continent in pursuit of the Hollywood dream. Will Diva admit defeat? Or will she find fame and fortune before turning thirty? Hip and outrageously funny! As a young comedian, its frightening how much I can relate. ~ Christel Bartelse, 2011& 2010 Canadian Comedy Award Nominee Van Ritzen is one of the funniest humans Ive ever met. Read her book, laugh, lather, rinse, repeat. ~ Mark Leiren-Young, author of Never Shoot a Stampede Queen 2009 Leacock Medal For Humour Really, really funny. ~ Terry Fallis, author of The Best Laid Plans 2008 Leacock Medal For Humour You will root for Diva every step of the way. ~ Ian Ferguson, author of Village of the Small Houses 2004 Leacock Medal for Humour

Diva Diaries Box Set

Author : Kerrie Noor
Publisher : Kerrie noor
ISBN 13 : 1393256732
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Diva Diaries Box Set written by Kerrie Noor and published by Kerrie noor. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Romantic Comedy With No Age Limits One Panto, three stories with more than one happy ending. The Diva Diaries series, a laugh-a-minute farce set in the world of Scottish amateur dramatics. You will find romance, comic setups, and a fire of epic proportion with an ending that will intrigue, entertain and make you chuckle in your shoes.

Diary of a Mad Diva

Author : Joan Rivers
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0425269035
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Mad Diva written by Joan Rivers and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the headline-making, New York Times bestselling author of I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me comes another intimate glimpse into the delightfully hilarious mind of Joan Rivers. When her daughter Melissa gives her a diary for Christmas, at first Joan is horrified—who the hell does Melissa think she is? That fat pig, Bridget Jones? But as Joan, being both beautiful and introspective, begins to record her day-to-day musings, she realizes she has a lot to say. About everything. And everyone, God help them. The result? A no-holds-barred, delightfully vicious and always hilarious look at the everyday life of the ultimate diva. Follow Joan on a family vacation in Mexico and on trips between New York and Los Angeles where she mingles with the stars, never missing a beat as she delivers blistering critiques on current events, and excoriating insights about life, pop culture, and celebrities (from A to D list), all in her relentlessly funny signature style. This is the Diary of a Mad Diva. Forget about Anais Nin, Anne Frank, and Sylvia Plath. For the first time in a century, a diary by someone that’s actually worth reading.

Diva Diaries

Author : Janine A. Morris
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0758285205
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Diva Diaries written by Janine A. Morris and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dakota, Chrasey, and Jordan have been best friends since college. Now they're about to discover their wild school days have nothing on the dramas of adulthood. . . As friends, Dakota, Chrasey, and Jordan are alike and dissimilar in many ways. Dakota is the only single one in the group. She and Jordan both thrive on their high-powered careers--and the men in their lives almost always come second. But when Dakota's boyfriend becomes more than she can handle, she realized that strength in the boardroom does not translate to the bedroom. Chrasey and Jordan have marriage in common--and the temptation to have an affair with two irresistible men. Now these three friends who have been through the best and worst times together, will have to rely on their strong bonds and trust the truth that lies buried deep within their hearts to discover who they really are--and find the life they've been waiting for all along. . . "I felt like I was experiencing one of my own girls' nights out." --Lala, MTV VJ "More juicy drama than any reality show. . ..Janine writes for the everyday diva in all of us." --Miss Info, author of Bling, Bling: Hip Hops Crown Jewels, Hot 97 Jock, Vibe columnist

Literary Divas

Author : Heather Covington
Publisher : Amber Books Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780976773535
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Literary Divas written by Heather Covington and published by Amber Books Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These divas represent the voices of past and future generations, such as Tyra Banks, Terry McMillan, Harriette Cole, Maya Angelou, Iyanla Vanzant, Nikki Giovanni, Dawn Davis, Adrienne Ingrum, Carol Mackey, Oprah Winfrey, Rosa Parks, Shirley Chisholm, Coretta Scott King, Zora Neal Hurston, and Octavia Butler.

Diary of a Stalker

Author : Electa Rome Parks
Publisher : Urban Books
ISBN 13 : 159983250X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Stalker written by Electa Rome Parks and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electa Rome Parks paints a powerful portrait of a crazed fan who can't seem to close the book on the affair after a one-night-stand with a famous author—and who will stop at nothing to make him hers. Even if that means killing him. . . Bestselling author Xavier Preston is used to women throwing themselves at him. On top of being a successful writer, he's also tall, dark and sexy as sin. He's always relished the attention, in fact, and is ever-willing to entertain the erotic urges of women wanting to get between more than the covers of his novels. Except once he meets Kendall, he decides it's time to put his womanizing ways behind him and devote himself to her entirely. Well, almost. . . Gorgeous Pilar is the last decadent treat Xavier decides he'll help himself to—thinking they are both on the same "no strings" page. Except behind Pilar's fine façade beats the heart of a raving maniac—a fatally attracted fan addicted to the kind of hot loving only Xavier can give her. And she's not about to let him get away from her so easily. So what starts out as a discreet dalliance soon spirals into a deadly game of obsession and pain—which can only have one winner. . .

Bouncing Back

Author : Joan Rivers
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062004557
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Bouncing Back written by Joan Rivers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiercely honest and moving story of how Joan Rivers, one of comedy's greatest stars, survived the worst that life could throw at her, how she hit bottom and then made it back to the top. "There are many self-help books by Ph.D's, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A. — I've Been Through It All. This degree comes not on parchment but on gauze, and it entitles me to tell you that there is a way to get through any misfortune." —From Bouncing Back Survival stratagems from Joan Rivers Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger And always remember: Surviving is the best revenge Look at Alexander Graham Bell, who did 22,000 experiments before he hit on the telephone. Just a few more and he would have had call waiting Whenever I hit bottom, the only thing I think of was set down by Jerome Kern: Pick myself up, dust myself off and start all over again. Dr. Kevorkian will get no call from me, unless I think he'd look good in a brooch.

A Dame Called Derek

Author : Kerrie Noor
Publisher : Kerrie noor
ISBN 13 : 1386499331
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book A Dame Called Derek written by Kerrie Noor and published by Kerrie noor. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie's marriage has hit the rock bottom. He tries his hand at writing erotica, will his writing light his wife’s fire or douse it out for good? Charlie shares his first story with his writing class. A hobby that has his wife laughing into her morning latte Charlies is a house husband and in her eyes, his talents remain with pastry rolling. The writing class loves his story they think it’s funny including the director of the local pantomime. The director who has as much idea about directing as a plumber bullies Charlie into writing for the local pantomime group. Charlie’s wife calls him crazy and with a dame as funny as a kidney stone and equipment on a par with second-hand stall Charle can see her point until he discovers his wife’s therapist does more than manipulate her neck. With a fire of epic proportions and an exotic wardrobe mistress, Charlie is caught in the crossfire of amateur dramatic politics, divorce, and reviving his “romancing” skills. Will he find the courage to chase a chance, or will he give up and return to cleaning ovens and being ignored? A Dame Called Derek is the first novella in the Diva Diaries series, a laugh-a-minute farce set in the world of Scottish amateur dramatics.

I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me

Author : Joan Rivers
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 0425255891
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book I Hate Everyone...Starting with Me written by Joan Rivers and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An entertaining rant…The only thing missing is the sound of a drumroll and cymbals to feel as though one is sitting in a nightclub watching a live comedy marathon…A raucous, biting look at life.”—Kirkus Reviews “Nobody, but nobody, can hate like Joan Rivers. It is a gift. It is also shocking, the things she makes us laugh at…Joan Rivers is extraordinary, but she's not for the easily offended—or for anyone who gets offended at all. ”—People Joan Rivers, comedienne, actress, jewelry monger, and an award-winning international star (she can sneer in eight different languages) lives by her own golden rule: Do unto others before they do unto you—and for God’s sakes, do it funny! Her career in comedy may have begun with self-loathing, but, after looking at the human decrepitude around her, she figured Why stop here when there are so many other things to hate? With all of her diverse experiences, Joan has looked down at, turned away from, and thrown up over a lot of hateful things, deplorable places, and despicable people. Thank God she took notes. Here—uncensored and uninhibited—Joan says exactly what’s on her mind…And HER mind is a terrible thing to waste. She proudly kicks the crap out of ugly children, dating rituals, funerals, and lousy restaurants. She nails First Ladies, closet cases, and hypocrites to the wall. She shows no mercy towards doctors and feminists, and even goes after Anne Frank and Stephen Hawking. Joan lets everyone—including herself—have it in this one hundred percent honest and unabashedly hilarious love letter to the hater in all of us.

Like Brothers

Author : Mark Duplass
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1101967722
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Like Brothers written by Mark Duplass and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multitalented writers, directors, producers, and actors (as seen on The League, Transparent, and The Mindy Project) share the secrets of their lifelong partnership in this unique memoir. “A book that anyone will love . . . You can enjoy it even if you have no idea who the Duplass brothers are.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times Whether producing, writing, directing, or acting, the Duplass Brothers have made their mark in the world of independent film and television on the strength of their quirky and empathetic approach to storytelling. Now, for the first time, Mark and Jay take readers on a tour of their lifelong partnership in this unique memoir told in essays that share the secrets of their success, the joys and frustrations of intimate collaboration, and the lessons they’ve learned the hard way. From a childhood spent wielding an oversized home video camera in the suburbs of New Orleans to their shared years at the University of Texas in early-nineties Austin, and from the breakthrough short they made on a three-dollar budget to the night their feature film Baghead became the center of a Sundance bidding war, Mark and Jay tell the story of a bond that’s resilient, affectionate, mutually empowering, and only mildly dysfunctional. They are brutally honest about how their closeness sabotaged their youthful romantic relationships, about the jealousy each felt when the other stole the spotlight as an actor (Mark in The League, Jay in Transparent), and about the challenges they faced on the set of their HBO series Togetherness—namely, too much togetherness. But Like Brothers is also a surprisingly practical road map to a rewarding creative partnership. Rather than split all their responsibilities fifty-fifty, the brothers learned to capitalize on each other’s strengths. They’re not afraid to call each other out, because they’re also not afraid to compromise. Most relationships aren’t—and frankly shouldn’t be—as intense as Mark and Jay’s, but their brand of trust, validation, and healthy disagreement has taken them far. Part coming-of-age memoir, part underdog story, and part insider account of succeeding in Hollywood on their own terms, Like Brothers is as openhearted and lovably offbeat as Mark and Jay themselves. “Wright. Ringling. Jonas. I’m sure you could name a bunch of famous brother teams. They’re all garbage compared to Mark and Jay. I can’t wait for you to read this book.”—from the foreword by Mindy Kaling

Still Talking

Author : Joan Rivers
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780712655712
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Still Talking written by Joan Rivers and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1992 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage

Author : Pamela Allen Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198867832
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage written by Pamela Allen Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage traces the transnational connections between Shakespeare's all-male stage and the first female stars in the West. The book is the first to use Italian and English plays and other sources to explore this relationship, focusing on the gifted actress whoradically altered female roles and expanded the horizons of drama just as the English were building their first paying theaters. By the time Shakespeare began to write plays, women had been acting professionally in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling across the Continent and acting in allgenres, including tragicomedy and tragedy. Some women became the first truly international stars, winning royal and noble patrons and literary admirers beyond Italy, with repeat tours in France and Spain.Elizabeth and her court caught wind of the Italians' success, and soon troupes with actresses came to London to perform. Through contacts direct and indirect, English professionals grew keenly aware of the mimetic revolution wrought by the skilled diva, who expanded the innamorata and made the typemore engaging, outspoken, and autonomous. Some English writers pushed back, treating the actress as a whorish threat to the all-male stage, which had long minimized female roles. Others saw a vital new model full of promise. Faced with rising demand for Italian-style plays, Lyly, Marlowe, Kyd, andShakespeare used Italian models from scripted and improvised drama to turn out stellar female parts in the mode of the actress, altering them in significant ways while continuing to use boys to play them. Writers seized on the comici's materials and methods to piece together pastoral, comic, andtragicomic plays from mobile theatergrams - plot elements, roles, stories, speeches, and star scenes, such as cross-dressing, the mad scene, and the sung lament. Shakespeare and his peers gave new prominence to female characters, marked their passions as un-English, and devised plots that figuredthem as self-aware agents, not counters traded between men. Playing up the skills and charisma of the boy player, they produced stunning roles charged with the diva's prodigious theatricality and alien glamour. Rightly perceived, the diva's celebrity and her acclaimed skills posed a radicalchallenge that pushed English playwrights to break with the past in enormously generative and provocative ways.

Divining Divas

Author : Michael Montlack
Publisher : Lethe Press
ISBN 13 : 1590213831
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Divining Divas written by Michael Montlack and published by Lethe Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor Michael Montlack has assembled an anthology of a hundred gay poets--award winners and fresh voices--in thrall with female icons throughout the ages ranging from Gloria Swanson to Mary J, Blige, from Edith Piaf to Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler to Lady Gaga. These are not merely appreciations of the gorgeous and daring but poems that are confessional to bittersweet to witty.

How to Write Funny

Author : John Kachuba
Publisher : Writer's Digest Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book How to Write Funny written by John Kachuba and published by Writer's Digest Books. This book was released on 2001-07-15 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A discussion of the basics and genres of the comic point of view includes essays and interviews with such authors as Dave Barry, Sherman Alexie, and Melissa Bank.

The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women

Author : Sheila Moeschen
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762466626
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women written by Sheila Moeschen and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the most groundbreaking women in comedy who used humor to shake up the status quo and change perceptions of gender and comedy forever. The League of Extraordinarily Funny Women celebrates the outstanding contributions of fifty women in comedy past and present. From legends like Lucille Ball, Joan Rivers, and Tina Fey to current comedy heroes like Issa Rae, Lena Waithe, Abbi Jacobson, and Tig Notaro, this beautifully illustrated book charts a rich lineage of women using humor to speak truth to power, tangle with sensitive subjects, challenge the status quo, and do anything but sit still and stay quiet when laughs are on the line. Some of these women broke boundaries as pioneers on stage as well as in front of and behind the camera. Others penned their way into the history of American humor, redrawing the boundaries of writers' rooms to include diverse voices and perspectives. Through their collective work as stand-ups, sketch and improv comics, humor writers, and slapstick film stars, these women formed a network forged by creativity, guts, and a deep love of what comedy can do and be. In the process, they continue to pass their knowledge and insights from woman to woman, from funny generation to funny generation, offering support, inspiration, and, above all, laughter.

Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore: Letters. 1814-1818. Diary

Author : Thomas Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore: Letters. 1814-1818. Diary written by Thomas Moore and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Analyzing Language and Humor in Online Communication

Author : Taiwo, Rotimi
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1522503390
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Analyzing Language and Humor in Online Communication written by Taiwo, Rotimi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Misunderstandings in technology-mediated communication can be due to a lack of tone and facial expression on the part of the speaker, which provide additional context clues into the meaning of the message beyond textual representation. As technology becomes more of a ubiquitous element in our interactions with one another, further study into the ways in which language and humor are conveyed online and impact human communication is essential. Analyzing Language and Humor in Online Communication presents a compendium of research into virtual communities, online communication, social networks, and the ways that language, and humor in particular, are being conveyed and understood in these digital environments. Emphasizing examples from popular culture and contemporary media, this innovative publication fills the current void in the literature by focusing specifically on humor creation and perception in the digital age. Students, researchers, linguists, psychologists, media professionals, and sociologists will find this publication to be a unique reference source.