Celebrity Comedy

*Vulture's Best Comedy Book of 2023* From the author of Generation Friends, featuring brand-new interviews with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, a surprising, incisive, and often hilarious book about the film that changed comedy, Anchorman. It’s been nearly twenty years since Ron Burgundy burst...

நகைச்சுவை மட்டுமே என்.எஸ்.கேவின் அடையாளம் அல்ல, அதையும் தாண்டிய ஆளுமை அவருடையது. பரிவும் பகுத்தறிவும் அவருடைய இரண்டு கண்கள். ஆம், ஏழைகள், பசித்தவர்கள் என்றால் என்.எஸ்.கேவின் உள்ளம் சட்டென்று இரங்கிவிடும். கையில் இருப்பதை எல்லாம் கொடுத்துவிடக் கூடியவர். அள்ளிக்கொடுக்கும் விஷயத்தில் எம்.ஜி.ஆருக்கே வழிகாட்டியவர் என்.எஸ்.கே. வயிற்றுக்கு மட்டுமல்ல, சிந்தனைக்கும் விருந்து படைத்தவர்.

David Acuff is a Hollywood insider, a military brat, a comic, a piano recital survivor, a BMW murderer, an offensive linebacker, a dog licker, a divorced TikToker, a father of three Jedi princesses, and possibly a child prodigy. He is also a semi-centurion. That's a word he made up when he turned 50 this year because "quinquagenarian" sounds like a horse disease or a Menudo song. And before he could move on to the next nifty fifty, he wanted to process how he'd lived, laughed, loved, and litigated along the way. So he wrote this semi-memoir. A semi-memie, let's call it.

Erinnerungen eines legendären Theatermachers. Erstmals erzählt Tom Pauls von dem Moment, der ihn für die Bühne begeisterte, von Selbstzweifeln während seines Schauspielstudiums, den Widersprüchen vor 1989 sowie dem Neuanfang nach 1990. Noch nie sprach er so persönlich von den Höhen und Tiefen seiner Karriere, über die Rolle des Theaters in der DDR, die Ostalgie sowie gegenwärtige Katastrophen wie Elbe-Hochwasser und Corona-Pandemie. Ohne Herausforderungen ging es bei ihm nie. Aber mit Possen bringt er unverdrossen sein Publikum zum Lachen und macht immer weiter Theater.

Katrin Weber ist einer der hellsten Sterne am sächsischen Kabaretthimmel. Zusammen mit Bestsellerautor Stefan Schwarz plaudert sie aus ihrem Leben voller Missgeschicke, Pannen und Ungeschicktheiten, die sie bis auf die Bühne verfolgten - größtenteils ehrlich und umwerfend komisch. Sie werden lachen. Garantiert. Die kleine Katrin hatte es schwer. Zu dick, zu langsam, zu dusselig: Stehen, Laufen, Pubertieren, die Liebe.

Am 5. September 2015 wird Dieter Hallervorden 80 Jahre alt. Doch ans Aufhören denkt er noch lange nicht, die Bühne ist sein zu Hause, das Spielen sein Lebenselixier. Aufgewachsen in Dessau, verließ er 1958 die DDR, um sich in West-Berlin ein neues Leben aufzubauen. Bis heute steht er vor der Kamera und auf der Bühne, vorzugsweise in seinem Schlossparktheater in Berlin.

Am 30. August 2015 feiert Helge Schneider seinen 60. Geburtstag. Der Komiker, Kabarettist, Buchautor, Schauspieler und Multiinstrumentalist wuchs in Mülheim an der Ruhr auf. Seinen Durchbruch hatte Helge Schneider 1992 mit seinem Album "Guten Tach", 1994 stürmte sein Hit "Katzenklo" die Charts.

“Fantastic!” —the actual Jeff Goldblum (for real) The essential companion for any fan of Jeff Goldblum, Hollywood’s most beloved and otherworldly icon. You like Jeff Goldblum. We like Jeff Goldblum. Helen McClory really likes Jeff Goldblum. So lie back, Jurassic Park-style, and prepare...

Writer-Producer Robert Youngson’s seminal compilation documentaries of silent comedy in the 1960s inspired a Renaissance in the legacies of Charley Chase, Snub Pollard, and, above all, Laurel and Hardy as well as other comedians from movies of the teens and '20s. Youngson died young, but his widow, Jeanne, tells author Manago about her late husband’s obsession with movies, laughter, and food.

For more than 40 years Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise lit up our TV screens with their wonderful humour. This is the inside story, as written and read, by Eric's son Gary. As well as his unique position from inside the family he did extensive research through both families archives to uncover new facts about the duos early years. It provides a fascinating and entertaining picture of two of our most loved entertainers.

For half a century Ken Dodd has been sending audiences around Britain in to spasms of laughter and at the age of 80 he is still performing. How did this feather duster salesman from Liverpool become one of the greatest comic geniuses of his generation? In this entertaining biography we follow his life from schooldays in Knotty Ash to the top of his profession with the odd excursion through the courts and Shakespeare!

Linda Smith (1958-2006) was a national treasure and voted "wittiest person alive" on Radio 4. From her childhood in Erith, featuring her "sweet smiling fascist grandmother", and holidays abroad (to the Isle of Wight), to her early stand-up days and comedy career, Warren Lakin recalls Linda's story and their life together.

This is the first audiobook of its type to be released in North America. Road Stories of the Real Highway Comics takes a hard, comical look at the world of stand-up comedy from veteran Canadian stand-up comic, author, and voice-over artist Bryan Cox. If you've thought it might be fun to be a comedian, this audiobook is a must listen. Or, if you've wondered what that life is like, Road Stories uses humor to lay it all out for you.

S'Mother is a hilarious memoir based on 30 years of unsolicited advice, news updates, and opinions in the form of thousands of inappropriate, embarrassing, and utterly crazy letters showing the pathological extremes maternal instincts can take. Why is a grown woman so frantic that her adult son screw on his windows to keep out killer bees? Are adult trick-or-treaters really that much of a threat?

This set of short essays on the funniest African Americans in the business answers your simple questions for all age groups! Perfect for kids, teens, college students, or just inspiration. Don't let history pass without spreading the word! Just Stand Up: A Tribute to Black Comedians is a look back at the funny black men and women who started it all and their struggles before stardom and fame. A lesson that need to be taught!

Sewists, you deserve a good laugh. Beth is a former president of her local sewing guild and loves to sew. Rich has a lot of time on his hands after retiring early. Follow the humorous antics of these two as they adjust to his new found freedom. He wants to micromanage her days, and she just wants to sew! You’ll relate to their back and forth and chuckle at the anecdotes within. The only problem being how to put it down to get something else done, or finish work on a sewing project.

By the 1920s English comic Stan Laurel had been in dozens of films, and American Oliver Hardy had appeared in hundreds, but it was not until they formed a duo together in 1926 that they began to truly be noticed. Once they did, however, Laurel and Hardy became one of the most famous comedy teams in American history, with a career that spanned four decades and included over 100 combined shorts and feature films.

A bullied, fat kid from Brooklyn with no connections or money, grows up to become the king of a comedy club empire. Al Martin’s intimate, controversial, heartfelt, memoir penned during the Covid 19 crisis which took his beloved sister’s life, vividly recounts his story from bombing as a comic, to the constant struggles he overcame to acquire some of the most successful comedy clubs in Manhattan.

Jem’s life is a full-on soap opera! The now famous blogger chick’s roller-coaster relationship with reality show hunk, Daniel, her constant fear of losing custody of her brother and the steamy attention of rock star hottie, Jasper, are all taking their toll. Jem is heartbroken, the pain of betrayal running deep in her heart. But staying away from Daniel becomes easier when Jasper, amps up his game, begging Jem to let him be her one and only. Now, she’s got Jasper and Daniel hot on her stiletto heels and it’s all she can do to keep calm and flirt on!

Andrew Zimmern, the host of The Travel Channel’s hit series Bizarre Foods, has an extraordinarily well-earned reputation for traveling far and wide to seek out and sample anything and everything that’s consumed as food globally, from cow vein stew in Bolivia and giant flying ants in Uganda...