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Seriously Funny #01 by Adrian Plass,Jeff Lucas Pdf
A little while ago, concerned that the next time they got together, one of them would be in a coffin, Jeff Lucas and Adrian Plass decided to start exchanging letters and this book is the result. Breathtakingly honest, funny, moving and immensely enjoyable, Seriously Funny is a celebration of 21st century Christianity as well as a no-holds barred expose of its sillier side. And they are equally hard on themselves their most embarrassing moments are a joy to read. Adrian Plass and Jeff Lucas are renowned for their ability to express the silly side of Christian culture, and to cut through our pretensions and foibles with incisive wit. In this candid, moving, hilarious book, they join comedic forces to challenge and entertain us.
#1 bestselling author James Patterson doles out the laughs in the first book in the hit series! Middle-schooler Jamie Grimm faces bullies and self-doubt as he chases his dream of becoming the world’s greatest comedian Jamie Grimm is a middle schooler on a mission: he wants to become the world's greatest standup comedian--even if he doesn't have a lot to laugh about these days. He's new in town and stuck living with his aunt, uncle, and their evil son Stevie, a bully who doesn't let Jamie's wheelchair stop him from messing with Jamie as much as possible. But Jamie doesn't let his situation get him down. When his Uncle Frankie mentions a contest called The Planet's Funniest Kid Comic, Jamie knows he has to enter. But are the judges only rewarding him out of pity because of his wheelchair, like Stevie suggests? Will Jamie ever share the secret of his troubled past instead of hiding behind his comedy act? Prepare to laugh and cheer along with Jamie in this highly-illustrated, heartfelt middle school story.
International Blogging by Adrienne Russell,Nabil Echchaibi Pdf
Bloggers around the world produce material for local, national and international audiences, yet they are developing in ways that are distinct from the U.S. model. Through case studies of blogs written in English, Chinese, Arab, French, Russian, and Hebrew, this book explores the way blogging is being conceptualized in different cultural contexts. The authors move beyond the most highly trafficked sites to shed light on larger developments taking place online, calling into question assumptions that form the foundation of much of what we read on blogging and, by extension, on global amateur or do-it-yourself media. This book suggests a more nuanced approach to understanding how blogospheres serve communication needs, how they exist in relation to one another, where they exist apart as well as where they overlap, and how they interact with other forms of communication in the larger media landscape.
Cases on Applied and Therapeutic Humor by Cundall Jr., Michael K.,Kelly, Stephanie Pdf
Recent evidence indicates that humor is an important aspect of a person's health, and studies have shown that increased levels of humor help with stress, pain tolerance, and overall patient health outcomes. Still, many healthcare providers are hesitant to use humor in their practice for fear of offense or failure. Understanding more of how and why humor works as well as some of the issues related to real-world examples is essential to help practitioners be more successful in their use and understanding of humor in medical care. Through case studies and real-world applications of therapeutic humor, the field can be better understood and advanced for best practices and uses of this type of therapy. With this growing area of interest, research on humor in a patient care setting must be discussed. Cases on Applied and Therapeutic Humor focuses on humor in medical care and will discuss issues in humor research, assessment of the effectiveness of humor in medical settings, and examples of medical care in specific health settings. The chapters will explore how propriety, effectiveness, perception, and cultural variables play a role in using humor as therapy and will also provide practical case studies from medical/healthcare professionals in which they personally employed humor in medical practice. This book is ideal for medical students, therapists, researchers interested in health, humor, and medical care; healthcare professionals; humor researchers; along with practitioners, academicians, and students looking for a deeper understanding of the role humor can play as well as guidance as to the effective and meaningful use of humor in medical/healthcare settings.
Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown an increasing attention and sensitivity to diverse forms of disability, both physical and cognitive. The essays in this collection reveal how the superhero genre, in fusing fantasy with realism, provides a visual forum for engaging with issues of disability and intersectional identity (race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality) and helps to imagine different ways of being in the world. Working from the premise that the theoretical mode of the uncanny, with its interest in what is simultaneously known and unknown, ordinary and extraordinary, opens new ways to think about categories and markers of identity, Uncanny Bodies explores how continuums of ability in superhero comics can reflect, resist, or reevaluate broader cultural conceptions about disability. The chapters focus on lesser-known characters—such as Echo, Omega the Unknown, and the Silver Scorpion—as well as the famous Barbara Gordon and the protagonist of the acclaimed series Hawkeye, whose superheroic uncanniness provides a counterpoint to constructs of normalcy. Several essays explore how superhero comics can provide a vocabulary and discourse for conceptualizing disability more broadly. Thoughtful and challenging, this eye-opening examination of superhero comics breaks new ground in disability studies and scholarship in popular culture. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Sarah Bowden, Charlie Christie, Sarah Gibbons, Andrew Godfrey-Meers, Marit Hanson, Charles Hatfield, Naja Later, Lauren O’Connor, Daniel J. O'Rourke, Daniel Pinti, Lauranne Poharec, and Deleasa Randall-Griffiths.
This Is a Book About the Kids in the Hall by Semley, John Pdf
The first book to explore their history, legacy, and influence This is a book about the Kids in the Hall „ the legendary Canadian sketch comedy troupe formed in Toronto in 1984 and best known for the innovative, hilarious, zeitgeist-capturing sketch show The Kids in the Hall „ told by the people who were there, namely the Kids themselves. John SemleyÍs thoroughly researched book is rich with interviews with Dave Foley, Mark McKinney, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, and Scott Thompson, as well as Lorne Michaels and comedians speaking to the KidsÍ legacy: Janeane Garofalo, Tim Heidecker, Nathan Fielder, and others. It also turns a criticÍs eye on that legacy, making a strong case for the massive influence the Kids have exerted, both on alternative comedy and on pop culture more broadly. The Kids in the Hall were like a band: a group of weirdoes brought together, united by a common sensibility. And, much like a band, theyÍre always better when theyÍre together. This is a book about friendship, collaboration, and comedy „ and about clashing egos, lost opportunities, and one-upmanship. This is a book about the head-crushing, cross-dressing, inimitable Kids in the Hall.
Born in Brooklyn, Jimmy Kimmel grew up in Las Vegas, in a stereotypical Italian family. As a teenager he was a practical joker. He dropped out of college to work at radio stations, and then got his big break as a TV game-show host. This led to The Man Show, a frat-boy comedy that turned him into a household name. In 2003, he began hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! and transformed into a worldwide celebrity. Today he is an influencer in popular culture and national politics. This biography examines how Kimmel has reinvented the perception of the late-night talk show host.
Charles Egerton Osgood,William H. May,Murray S. Miron
Author : Charles Egerton Osgood,William H. May,Murray S. Miron Publisher : University of Illinois Press Page : 518 pages File Size : 51,8 Mb Release : 1975 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines ISBN : 0252004264
Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Rachel Trousdale Pdf
Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communities of readers and writers. For poets slightly outside of the literary or social mainstream, humor encourages mutual understanding and empathic insight among artist, audience, and subject. As a result, laughter helps poets reframe and reject literary, political, and discursive hierarchies--whether to overturn those hierarchies, or to place themselves at the top. While theorists like Freud and Bergson argue that laughter patrols and maintains the boundary between in-group and out-group, this volume shows how laughter helps us cross or re-draw those boundaries. Poets who practice such constructive humor promote a more democratic approach to laughter. Humor reveals their beliefs about their audiences and their attitudes toward the Romantic notion that poets are exceptional figures. When poets use humor to promote empathy, they suggest that poetry's ethical function is tied to its structure: empathy, humor, and poetry identify shared patterns among apparently disparate objects. This book explores a broad range of serious approaches to laughter: the inclusive, community-building humor of W. H. Auden and Marianne Moore; the self-aggrandizing humor of Ezra Pound; the self-critical humor of T. S. Eliot; Sterling Brown's antihierarchical comedy; Elizabeth Bishop's attempts to balance mockery with sympathy; and the comic epistemologies of Lucille Clifton, Stephanie Burt, Cathy Park Hong, and other contemporary poets. It charts a developing poetics of laughter in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, showing how humor can be deployed to embrace, to exclude, and to transform.
When eight-and-a-half-year-old Mallory McDonald s parents tell her that they are moving, she s mad really mad! It s not fair! How can they make her move away from Mary Ann, her best friend in the whole wide world? Who will she paint her toenails with, tell secrets to, and make scrapbooks with? When Mallory arrives at her new house on Wish Pond Road, things are terrible. Her room is too small and the girl next door is mean. But Joey lives next door, too. Even though he doesn t paint his toes, he tells jokes, helps teach her cat to do tricks, and shows her how to skateboard. Mallory s having so much fun she forgets the pact she made with Mary Ann never to make friends with a boy next door. But, when Mary Ann comes to visit, what will Mallory do? Will she have to choose between her best friend and her new friend?
Entertainment Media and Politics by Robert Lance Holbert Pdf
The prominence of politically-themed entertainment is evident across the global media landscape. Given its popularity, it is important to gain a firm understanding of the mechanisms through which this diverse and multi-faceted content can generate democratic outcomes. In addition, it is essential to isolate and predict properly the strength of a given effect and the conditions under which a specific outcome will become evident. The works contained in this edited volume explore affect- and cognition-driven processes of influence, recognizing that humans are both emotional and rational beings. In addition, empirical evidence is offered to isolate and compare specific types of political entertainment media content (e.g., different types of satire) and citizens’ proclivities for this content (e.g., a person’s Affinity for Political Humor), in order to best understand the complex means by which entertainment media can generate political influence. Attention is also paid to expanding what can and should be defined as "political entertainment" media, which includes opinion-based political talk programming. The collection and its authors represent a global perspective to reflect the rise of political entertainment media as a global phenomenon. This book was originally published as a special issue of Mass Communication and Society.
ANGEL&STORM is a fantasy novel about the virtual reality game GALAHAD. You are reading this in A.D. 2045; it is an actual situation where everything is well controlled again by the emergence of New World Order (NWO). 29 year ago, anything related to Japanese yen had defaulted due to economic and environmental collapse of Japan, the country which used to be one of the main powers in East Asia. As a result, powerless countries were knocked down one after another by financial paralysis like falling dominoes. Moreover, the massive outbreak of the fatal yet unknown virus killed billions of people in some countries like China and Africa, and some mutant humans were born after the virus(e.g. Modified Ebola) outbreak. Each country strengthened its governmental authority and imposed martial law, justifying that it is to find terrorists and to protect citizens. Not so long after, a religious conflict caused a nuclear war in Israel. In 2017, nuclear wars had begun in many countries simultaneously, and the Illuminati intensified the war between South and North Korea, the powder keg of East Asia, to gain enormous profits and supremacy. The United States, once called the mediator, tried to confront the full scale invasion of China and Russia, but soon it collapsed feebly and lost the title of “the most powerful country in the world.” Meanwhile, the mercenaries in the broad battlefield selectively killed the disarmed people. The citizens from all over the world were left in chaos as they could not tell who their enemies and allies were. They could not take any more inflation, conflicts between countries and regions, and a food crisis, so the citizens started the first worldwide riot. The massive natural disasters from abrupt climate changes and tectonic movements made the citizens go through the worst era. Then NWO appeared in front of them. It led the survived population of five hundred million people using powerful control and justified that its control over people was to restore Earth. By the time 20 years of Earth restoration project was ended, almost all tasks in society were handled by Zion’s selected executors and robots, and the citizen from all over the world had received the new class called “commoner” and the identification system from NWO. World’s commoners were losing jobs as they were restricted from accessing high quality upper class information for security and safety purposes, and they ended up taking over the simple manufacturing and the mining jobs. World’s commoners who had lost their life goals began to have complaints against NWO, and the world was on the verge of facing the second worldwide riot. However, instead of forcibly cracking down on the riot, NWO was generous enough to create a virtual realty world, justifying that the virtual reality world was to ensure every commoner’s happy life. As commoners regained the stabilities of their lives, there were no more riots or complaints; however, they were repeating the same history in the virtual reality given by NWO. The revolutionary armies and the scholars around the world could not neglect what commoners were doing in GALAHAD anymore. To change commoner’s consciousness to civic consciousness, they began to infiltrate themselves into GALAHAD… What would you do if you can change the tragic history? What if justice you believe in is false? In this virtual reality world with a medieval era setting, the mute girl Aru who wanted to become the pirate queen started the adventure with her mercenaries, traveling vast oceans and perilous lands. However, Illuminati and Freemason, the secretive organizations that established New World Order, tried to interrupt them… What would be the truth of human history that they tried to hide from commoners? ANGEL&STORM is the fantasy novel with new perspectives on angels and demons, deceits of creationism, reinterpretations of religion and history, alternating points of view, and the expansive storyline with numerous characters. This novel consists of six seasons, and each season is split into 15 to 20 series. One season will be released over a year.
