Humorists

Author : Loyal Jones
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252033698
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Paul Johnson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062024868
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824059903
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Frank Thompson Searight
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317362276
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Hugh Reginald Haweis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Thorp
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452909350
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Iain Ellis
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476634017
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.WX/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Thomas Shadwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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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: