Steve Allen S Private Joke File

Author : Steve Allen
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780307421692

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Steve Allen's Private Joke File by Steve Allen Pdf

Why Did Steve Allen Cross the Road? Steve Allen is a legend among comedians and entertainers. He's been playing to audiences on stage, radio, film, and television for more than fifty years, gaining acclaim for his unique wit and energy. Now for the first time, he shares more than a thousand of his favorite one-liners, anecdotes, limericks, quotes, and other generally funny things. The entries are divided into nearly two hundred categories to make it easy for anyone to find the right laugh for any occasion. If you're faced with the prospect of having to "say a few words," Steve Allen's Private Joke File is the perfect place to look for ideas and inspiration on such topics as awards, drinking, baseball, lawyers, dentists, insurance, marriage, the stock market, and dozens of other subjects. A sampling: * My wife and I had words, but I never got to use mine! * If ignorance is bliss, he should die of joy. * "How are the acoustics here?" "Great, I can hardly hear you!" * I learned to rumba very early in life ... I had a tricycle with a loose seat. * Room for rent, by young lady, freshly plastered. Steve Allen has also included a number of his favorite essays and monologues. Steve Allen's Private Joke File is great to flip through for fun or for function, and for those of us looking for a good laugh -- to give one or to have one -- it's indispensable.

Author : Steve Allen
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0609606042

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Steve Allen's Private Joke File by Steve Allen Pdf

Author : Steve Allen
Publisher : Scarborough House
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : UCAL:B3571889

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Funny People by Steve Allen Pdf

Author : Steve Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Humor
ISBN : PSU:000031969123

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How to be Funny by Steve Allen Pdf

No one knows more about comedy than Steve Allen. For more than five decades as a writer, performer, and keen observer of the social scene, he has looked into every aspect of who's funny, what's funny, and why. Allen shares his discoveries in How to Be Funny, the book designed to help everyone develop their special talent for funniness. Now reissued in paperback, How to Be Funny covers all the basics, including joke telling, ad-libbing, writing humorously, performing comedy, emceeing, and much more. Allen takes you inside the world of comedy, from the early writings of Mark Twain, to the more contemporary work of Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Maher. Allen even provides homework assignments for the budding comic! Yet How to Be Funny is far more than just a book for aspiring comedians it will help anyone who wants to be a more amusing conversationalist, a more effective public speaker, and everyone who just wants to be the life of the party.

Author : Horace Newcomb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2800 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135194796

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Encyclopedia of Television by Horace Newcomb Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.

Author : John A. Garraty,Mark C. Carnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199771493

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American National Biography by John A. Garraty,Mark C. Carnes Pdf

American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.

Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501511493

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Script-Based Semantics by Salvatore Attardo Pdf

The book contains essays in honor of Victor Raskin. The contributions are all directly related to some of the major areas of work in which Raskin's scholarship has spanned for decades. The obvious connecting idea is the encyclopedic script-based foundation of lexical meaning, which informs his pioneering work in semantics in the 1970s and 1980s. The first part of the book collects articles directly concerned with script-based semantics, which examine both the theoretical and methodological premises of the idea and its applications. Script-based semantics is the foundation of both Raskin's ground-breaking work in humor research (addressed by the articles in part 2) and in Ontological semantics (addressed in part 3), the most recent development of script-based semantics. The fourth part is dedicated to a less-known, but equally important, strand of Raskin's research, the applications of linguistics to other fields, including writing, lexicography, and professional applications (e,g., tourism). Overall, the book provides and up-to-date, in-depth discussion of an influential strand of the discussion on semantics and its most recent developments and influence on other seemingly unrelated fields, such as Cognitive Linguistics.

Author : Milton Berle
Publisher : Crown
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992-01-28
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780517587164

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Milton Berle's Private Joke File by Milton Berle Pdf

One of the legends of show biz delves into his personal treasury of jokes ("The most comprehensive storehouse of 20th-century humor in the world"--Los Angeles Magazine) to present the most astounding array of one-liners, anecdotes, quips, and gags ever published. Line drawings.

Author : Jim Cox
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786489626

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Musicmakers of Network Radio by Jim Cox Pdf

Before television, radio was the sole source of simultaneous mass entertainment in America. The medium served as launching pad for the careers of countless future stars of stage and screen. Singers and conductors became legends by offering musical entertainment directly to Americans in their homes, vehicles, and places of work and play. This volume presents biographies of 24 renowned performers who spent a significant portion of their careers in front of a radio microphone. Profiles of individuals like Steve Allen, Rosemary Clooney, Bob Crosby, Johnny Desmond, Jo Stafford, and Percy Faith, along with groups such as the Ink Spots and the King’s Men, reveal the private lives behind the public personas and bring to life the icons and ambiance of a bygone era.

Author : Dallin D. Oaks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441141378

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Structural Ambiguity in English by Dallin D. Oaks Pdf

Structural Ambiguity in English is a major new scholarly work that provides an innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities. Most ambiguity scholarship is concerned with disambiguation-the process of making what is ambiguous clear. This book takes the opposite approach as it focuses on describing the features in the English language that may contribute towards the creation of structural ambiguities, which form the core of some of the best word-plays found in advertising, comedy and marketing. Oaks utilizes a systematic and comprehensive inventory approach that identifies individual elements in the language and their distinctive behaviors that can be manipulated in the deliberate creation of structural ambiguities. In doing so he also provides authentic examples to illustrate the concepts he presents. This book will appeal to researchers and academics interested in the structure of the English language, usage, pragmatics, communication, natural language processing, editing, and humor studies as well as those in marketing, advertising, or humor writing.

Author : Hans Warren
Publisher : Terrace Books
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0299209806

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Secretly Inside by Hans Warren Pdf

In the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.

Author : Wikipedia contributors
Publisher : e-artnow sro
Page : 1185 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Focus On: 100 Most Popular American Game Show Hosts by Wikipedia contributors Pdf

Author : Marc Galanter
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780299213534

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Lowering the Bar by Marc Galanter Pdf

What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.

Author : Eric Partridge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : 041525938X

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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: J-Z by Eric Partridge Pdf

Entry includes attestations of the head word's or phrase's usage, usually in the form of a quotation. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Author : Joseph Dorinson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781476620565

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Kvetching and Shpritzing by Joseph Dorinson Pdf

Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture. Scholars of humor--from Sigmund Freud to Woody Allen--have studied the essence of the Jewish joke, at once a defense mechanism against a hostile world and a means of cultural affirmation. Where did this wit originate? Why do Jewish humorists work at the margins of so many diverse cultures? What accounts for the longevity of the Jewish joke? Do oppressed people, as African American author Ralph Ellison suggested, slip their yoke when they change the joke? Citing examples from prominent humorists and stand-up comics, this book examines the phenomenon of Jewish humor from its biblical origins to its prevalence in the modern diaspora, revealing a mother lode of wit in language, literature, folklore, music and history.