A Comedian Walks Into A Funeral Home

Author : Dennis Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692845488

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A Comedian Walks Into A Funeral Home by Dennis Kelly Pdf

Vince Locker's life is tragic. His comedy act for the LaughCom competition has just bombed, ruining any chance of the cash prize he desperately needed. His life is in tatters; abandoned by his father as a child, an estranged wife, Jessica, who he seems to disappoint just by his mere existence, and living in his mother's house with his bipolar brother and facing foreclosure. As he stands on Smith Avenue Bridge, suicide seems the only option until he is unexpectedly rescued by an old school mortician named Truss. Vince meets another of Truss's rescues, Winona. Although beyond social norms, the trio seize on a quick cash fix that just might help Vince meet his child support demands-comedic tributes for the dead. The eulogies are hilarious and off the wall, sometimes disastrous and sometimes enlightening. They propel Vince into the dark underworld of the funeral industry, life insurance scams, savage politics, a kidnapping, the murder investigation of a destitute unclaimed young woman and threats to Jessica and his young daughter. As details of the murdered young woman are slowly revealed, Vince realizes that he has many ghosts of his own to put to rest. The story is a brilliant thought-provoking exploration of grief and death nested in clever humor.

Author : Bart J. Borsky
Publisher : BookPros, LLC
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Anesthesiologists
ISBN : 9781933538723

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Passing Gas and Getting Paid for it by Bart J. Borsky Pdf

Flying fish in the operating room and doctors who dress like giant colon polyps? That's right, it's all here and more in the story of Dr. Bart Borsky, an anesthesiologist who has been saying 'yes' to drugs for his patients since 1991. Dr. Borsky is also the author of the book on reverse psychology 'Please Don't Buy This!' which sold very few copies.

Author : David Grossman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Comedians
ISBN : 9781910702932

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A Horse Walks Into a Bar by David Grossman Pdf

A Guardian and New Statesman Book of the Year The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic - charming, erratic, repellent - exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him. A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he's been summoned to this performance.

Author : Anthony Balducci
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476673820

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Richard Pryor in Hollywood by Anthony Balducci Pdf

Hollywood studios were once eager to bring stand-up comedy king Richard Pryor's dynamic humor to the big screen--so much so that studio executives gave him full access to available resources and creative control to develop his own projects. Unfortunately Pryor's screen talents were far less acclaimed than his stage ones, and flops such as The Toy and Superman III greatly diminished his reputation. The author examines how this downfall unfolded through comprehensive analyses of each of Pryor's movies.

Author : Mathews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001922910

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The Life and Correspondence of Charles Matthews, The Elder, Comedian by Mathews Pdf

Author : Mrs. Mathews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001935183

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The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews, the Elder, Comedian by Mrs. Mathews Pdf

Author : Omid Djalili
Publisher : Headline
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472218636

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HOPEFUL - an autobiography by Omid Djalili Pdf

Omid Djalili's childhood was unconventional, to say the least. He was raised in a beautiful, chaotic, cramped, colourful and legally dubious guesthouse where his parents fed and watered Iranian nationals flocking to the UK. Over twenty years almost 2000 'cousins' passed through the Djalili's doors and the young Omid played translator to each. Although these years taught him a lot about the rich tapestry of life, this parenting by committee led to a slightly chequered school career which saw Omid taking his A levels a record six times and eventually fake his own university entrance papers. Desperate to be free of his cramped living quarters he escapes to the University of Ulster where he lives a life of wonderful solitude. Full of the warmth and intelligence that makes Omid such a successful comedian and sought-after actor, this memoir takes us on an incredible and laugh-out-loud funny journey through an unusually British life.

Author : Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Actors
ISBN : UCAL:B3543428

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The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews, the Elder, Comedian by Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson) Pdf

Author : Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081603379

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A Continuation of the Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian by Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson) Pdf

Author : Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson),Charles Mathews
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Comedians
ISBN : MINN:31951002009562A

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Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian by Mrs. Mathews (Anne Jackson),Charles Mathews Pdf

Author : Mrs. Anne MATHEWS (Actress.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018613137

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The Life and Correspondence of Charles Mathews, the Elder, Comedian. By Mrs. Mathews. A New Edition, Abridged and Condensed by Edmund Yates by Mrs. Anne MATHEWS (Actress.) Pdf

Author : Lisa Tabor Connor,Loraine K. Obler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780306468988

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Neurobehavior of Language and Cognition by Lisa Tabor Connor,Loraine K. Obler Pdf

This volume has been composed as an appreciation of Martin L. Albert in the year of his 60th birthday. At least one contributor to each paper in this volume has been touched by Marty in some way; lie has mentored some, been a fellow student with some, and been a colleague to most. These contributors, as well as many others, view Marty as a gifted scientist and a wonderful human being. The breadth of his interests and intellectual pursuits is truly impressive; this breadth is reflected, only in part. by the diversity of the papers in this volume. His interests have ranged from psychopharmacology to cross-cultural understanding of dementia, through the aphasias, to the history of the fields that touch on behavioral neurology, especially neurology per se, cognitive psychology, speech-language pathology, and linguistics. Throughout his scholarly work, Martha Taylor Sarno notes, Marty never loses the human perspective, e. g. , the “powerfully disabling effect on the individual person” with aphasia or other neurological disorder. For those readers who only how a portion of his work, we thought that we should describe him here. Many of the people whom Marty has influenced have been able to contribute to this volume. We have invited some others who were unable to contribute to express their appreciation for him, as well.

Author : Martin L. Albert,Lisa Tabor Connor,Loraine K. Obler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780792378778

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Neurobehavior of Language and Cognition by Martin L. Albert,Lisa Tabor Connor,Loraine K. Obler Pdf

The intersection of neurolinguistics and neuropsychology lies at the core of the cognitive neurosciences. Recent advances in our understanding of how language and other cognitive abilities relate to each other and to the brain have complemented the prior research on frank brain damage in the aphasias. The editors have invited senior scholars in the field to present a state-of-the-art volume on a range of language and non-language cognitive phenomena in normals and in brain damage from the perspective of neurobehavior, including neurochemistry. This volume should appeal to neuropsychologists, speech/language pathologists, behavioral neurologists, and neuropsychiatrists.

Author : John Timbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : London (England)
ISBN : BL:A0017077794

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Walks and Talks about London by John Timbs Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435028608412

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf