Radio Comedy

Author : Alan Havig
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439905606
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fred Allen's Radio Comedy written by Alan Havig and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing a career that lasted from 1912 into the 1950s, Havig describes the "verbal slapstick" style that was Fred Allen's hallmark and legacy to American comedy.

Author : Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520967941
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy written by Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The king of radio comedy from the Great Depression through the early 1950s, Jack Benny was one of the most influential entertainers in twentieth-century America. A master of comic timing and an innovative producer, Benny, with his radio writers, developed a weekly situation comedy to meet radio’s endless need for new material, at the same time integrating advertising into the show’s humor. Through the character of the vain, cheap everyman, Benny created a fall guy, whose frustrated struggles with his employees addressed midcentury America’s concerns with race, gender, commercialism, and sexual identity. Kathryn H. Fuller-Seeley contextualizes her analysis of Jack Benny and his entourage with thoughtful insight into the intersections of competing entertainment industries and provides plenty of evidence that transmedia stardom, branded entertainment, and virality are not new phenomena but current iterations of key aspects in American commercial cultural history.

Author : Gary Poole
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786450640
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio Comedy Diary written by Gary Poole and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2001-07-11 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a real find—for those who enjoy radio nostalgia but more importantly for scholars of broadcasting. From 1947 to 1950 while listening to such voices as Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Milton Berle, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, and Jimmy Durante, and shows like Fibber McGee & Molly, Amos ’n’ Andy, Blondie, and You Bet Your Life, the author was writing down jokes, gags, one-liners and quotations. In that short time he had filled 11 spiral notebooks. Fifty years later in a labor of love, the author painstakingly transferred those childhood notes into this invaluable—in fact, undoubtably unique—record of a boom time in American radio. This is an unexpected treasure for radio scholars, who have long lamented the lack of recordings for the majority of radio programming. Television researchers as well will benefit—here are root sources of television comedy. It is a revelation to find that what we are laughing at today often was first done on radio over 50 years ago. The author has also included a notes and comments section which includes background material on all the radio programs in this book.

Author : Vince Stadon
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244162182
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes - Radio Comedy Scripts Volume Three written by Vince Stadon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another hilarious radio comedy script! This volume contains the full script for the literate, witty and entertaining radio/stage play The Adventure of the Devil's Whisper. What diabolical scheme has Dracula author Mr Bram Stoker racing to 221b Baker Street one stormy autumn night? What connection is there to a pecular editor at The Strand Magazine? Who are the mysterious cult that have exacting standards of pedantry and cleanliness? And with all this devilish activity disturbing his routine, will Dr Watson get to enjoy his hearty breakfast in peace?

Author : Arthur Frank Wertheim
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio Comedy written by Arthur Frank Wertheim and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses American radio comedy shows and performers of the 1930's and 40's and examines their place in American life and their relationship to the social history of the time.

Author : Martin Dibbs
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319956094
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio Fun and the BBC Variety Department, 1922—67 written by Martin Dibbs and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a narrative history of the BBC Radio Variety Department exploring, along chronological lines, the workings of, tensions within and the impact of BBC policies on the programme-making department which generated the organisation’s largest audiences. It provides an insight into key events, personalities, programmes, internal politics and trends in popular entertainment, censorship and anti-American policy as they individually or collectively affected the Department. Martin Dibbs examines how the Department's programmes became markers in the daily and weekly lives of millions of listeners, and helped shape the nation's listening habits when radio was the dominant source of domestic entertainment. The book explores events and topics which, while not directly forming part of the Variety Department’s history, nevertheless intersected with or had an impact on it. Such topics include the BBC’s attitude to jazz and rock and roll, the arrival of television with its impact on radio, the pirate radio stations, and the Popular Music and Gramophone Departments, both of whom worked closely with the Variety Department.

Author : Kathryn Fuller-Seeley
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520295056
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jack Benny and the Golden Age of American Radio Comedy written by Kathryn Fuller-Seeley and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jack Benny became one of the most influential entertainers of the 20th century--by being the top radio comedian, when the comics ruled radio, and radio was the most powerful and pervasive mass medium in the US. In 23 years of weekly radio broadcasts, by aiming all the insults at himself, Benny created Jack, the self-deprecating "Fall Guy" character. He indelibly shaped American humor as a space to enjoy the equal opportunities of easy camaraderie with his cast mates, and equal ego deflation. Benny was the master of comic timing, knowing just when to use silence to create suspense or to have a character leap into the dialogue to puncture Jack's pretentions. Jack Benny was also a canny entrepreneur, becoming one of the pioneering "showrunners" combining producer, writer and performer into one job. His modern style of radio humor eschewed stale jokes in favor informal repartee with comic hecklers like his valet Rochester (played by Eddie Anderson) and Mary Livingstone his offstage wife. These quirky characters bouncing off each other in humorous situations created the situation comedy. In this career study, we learn how Jack Benny found ingenious ways to sell his sponsors' products in comic commercials beloved by listeners, and how he dealt with the challenges of race relations, rigid gender ideals and an insurgent new media industry (TV). Jack Benny created classic comedy for a rapidly changing American culture, providing laughter that buoyed radio listeners from 1932's depths of the Great Depression, through World War II to the mid-1950s"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Gregory Donald Stemen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio Comedy written by Gregory Donald Stemen and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1432 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark Lewisohn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780563488460
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy written by Mark Lewisohn and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume features details of every comedy show broadcast on British television, from the first shows inception in 1936 to the present day. Full broadcast details, cast information, credits, synopsis and critique are included.