Tag: Comedy

Free Download Upright Citizens Brigade, "Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual"
English | ASIN : B0C2RCMBYS | 2023 | 372 pages | PDF | 25 MB
The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual is a comprehensive guide to the UCB style of long form comedy improvisation. Written by UCB founding members Matt Besser, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh, the manual covers everything from the basics of two person scene work (with a heavy emphasis on finding "the game" of the scene), to the complexities of working within an ensemble to perform long form structures, such as "The Harold" and "The Movie". A practical "how to" book, the guide provides exercises throughout to help the reader master each new concept and technique introduced. While the manual is written to be understood by beginners with no previous exposure to improvisational comedy, experienced improvisors will find it to be an excellent resource for honing their skills, clarifying concepts, and generally taking their work to a higher level.

Free Download Dante Alighieri, REV. H. F. Cary M.A., "The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri The Inferno"
English | 2003 | pages: 152 | ISBN: 0989312097 | EPUB | 5,3 mb
THE ORIGINAL MASTERPIECE

Free Download Tom Blank, "The Principles of Comedy Improv: Truths, Tales, and How to Improvise"
English | ISBN: 1609388852 | 2023 | 261 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
The Principles of Comedy Improv is an authoritative handbook for beginners and experts alike. More than just entertainment, improv’s tenets enable you to change every moment of your life. Your guide is Tom Blank, who crystallizes two decades of experience to convey improv in unparalleled scope, depth, and fun.

Free Download The Fake Husband, A Comedy
by Flaminio Scala and Rosalind Kerr
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0866986286 | 193 Pages | True PDF | 4.52 MB

Free Download Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture-and the Magic That Makes It Work (Audiobook)
English | November 07, 2023 | ASIN: B0CL1JZ86B | M4B@128 kbps | 9h 21m | 511 MB
Author and Narrator: Jesse David Fox
"Comedy Book changes the way we talk about an art form that is more diverse and exciting than ever before." (Seth Meyers)
"A sharp, loving, well written exploration and analysis of the art form that makes us smile, helps us relate, and is perpetually mysterious." (Jenny Slate)

Free Download Peter Swallow, "Aristophanes in Britain: Old Comedy in the Nineteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 019286856X | 2023 | 304 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 55 MB
In this lively and wide-ranging study, Peter Swallow explores the reception of Aristophanes in Britain throughout the long-nineteenth century, setting it in the broader context of Victorian Classicism and, more specifically, the period’s reception of Greek tragedy. Swallow shows the surprising extent to which Aristophanes was repurposed across an array of mediums in Victorian Britain, and demonstrates that Aristophanic reception in the period was always a process of speaking to contemporary issues-making Old Comedy new.

Free Download Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice edited by Peter Dickinson, Anne Higgins, Paul Matthew St. Pierre, Diana Solomon, Sean Zwagerman
English | March 27, 2014 | ISBN: 1611476437, 168393072X | True EPUB | 280 pages | 3.5 MB
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women’s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to recognize and historicize women’s contributions to-and political uses of-comedy. The essays collected here demonstrate the breadth of current scholarship on gender and comedy, spanning centuries of literature and a diversity of methodologies.

Free Download Dante Alighieri, "The Divine Comedy"
English | 2013 | pages: 526 | ISBN: 144724219X, 1447244214 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
‘Finally I realised that I had been practising for this job every time I wrote a quatrain . . . I had spent all this time – the greater part of a lifetime – preparing my instruments’ The Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s new translation – his life’s work and decades in the making – presents Dante’s entire epic poem in a single song. While many poets and translators have attempted to capture the full glory of The Divine Comedy in English, many have fallen short. Victorian verse translations established an unfortunate tradition of reproducing the sprightly rhyming measures of Dante but at the same time betraying the strain on the translator’s powers of invention. For Dante, the dramatic human stories of Hell were exciting, but the spiritual studies of Purgatory and the sublime panoramas of Heaven were no less so. In this incantatory new translation, James – defying the convention by writing in quatrains – tackles these problems head-on and creates a striking and hugely accessible translation that gives us The Divine Comedy as a whole, unified, and dramatic work.

Free Download Jokes in Greek Comedy: From Puns to Poetics by Naomi Scott
English | October 19, 2023 | ISBN: 1350248487 | True EPUB/PDF | 192 pages | 0.4/4.96 MB
In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever ‘just a joke’. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve, and shows that far from being mere surface-level phenomena, jokes in Greek comedy are in fact a site of poetic experimentation whose creative force expressly rivals that of serious literature.

Free Download Not Funny: Essays on Life, Comedy, Culture, Et Cetera (Audiobook)
English | April 18, 2023 | ASIN: B0B4Z8M3WX | M4B@128 kbps | 7 hours | 382 MB
Author and Narrator: Jena Friedman
For fans of the perceptive comedy of Hannah Gadsby, Lindy West, and Sarah Silverman, Academy Award-nominated and acclaimed stand-up comedian Jena Friedman presents a witty and insightful collection of essays on the cultural flashpoints of today.
Growing up, Jena Friedman didn’t care about being likable. And she never wanted to be a comedian, either. A child of the 90s, she wouldn’t discover her knack for the funny business until research for her college thesis led her to take an improv class in Chicago.