Made You Laugh- The Funniest Moments in Comedy

Comedy Writing Secrets, 2nd Edition: The Best-Selling Book on How to Think Funny, Write Funny, Act Funny, And Get Paid For It Updated and revised, this new edition of the best-selling favorite enables readers to master the fundamentals of humor writing and better understand the demands of the comedic market. Comedy Writing Secrets now includes: -Examples from comedy greats as well as cutting-edge con...	Now Showing: Unforgettable Moments From The Movies Some of our fondest memories come from the movies. Dorothy melting the Wicked Witch of the West. A bruised and battered Rocky crying out 'A-DRI-AN!' Thelma and Louise flying off a Grand Canyon cliff in their airborne T-Bird. From our seat in the darkened theater, movies have mira...	We Interrupt This Broadcast with 2 Audio CDs, 3E Beginning with the explosion of the dirigible Hindenburg in 1937, this book and double-CD collection of audio broadcasts recalls a series of dramatic events so urgent that they interrupted regularly scheduled broadcasting in America. The text of this package includes capsule ...	Stay Tuned: Television's Unforgettable Moments For over 50 years, we have watched as television has entertained, informed, comforted, and thrilled us. We watched as sitcoms evolved from I Love Lucy to All in the Family: at first merely amusing, then becoming reflections of society and pushing the cultural boundaries. We watch...	And The Crowd Goes Wild With 2 Audio CDs: Relive The Most Celebrated Sporting Events Ever Broadcast What baseball fan doesn't get goosebumps when hearing, "The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" Who--hockey fan or not--doesn't feel a little bit giddy whenever they hear Al Michaels shout, "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!" Who doesn't grin when they hear Un...
Mixed Nuts: America's Love Affair With Comedy Teams From Burns And Allen To Belushi And Aykroyd From nineteenth-century vaudeville to contemporary sitcoms, comedy teams have made people laugh. Those teams were masters of the comic craft and gave to the world a particularly American art form. And, more than that, they were funny. Lawrence J. Epstein has written a joyful, ce...	And The Fans Roared With 2 Audio CDs: Recapture the Excitement of Great Moments in Sports Sports calls help us remember the best of times--who can forget the "Music City Miracle" (that's the "immaculate deception" to you, Bills fans)? "Touchdown, Titans! There are no flags on the field! It's a miracle!" They also help us remember the worst of times--such as the ...	The Best British Stand-Up and Comedy Routines With an introduction to each artist, transcripts and audio of the routines and special added extra material bring you the following. Rory Bremner, the best impressionist in the world, does Prince Charles Monty Python's unmatched Dead Parrot Eddie Izzard's bizarre world reaches it...	The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America Lawrence Epstein's The Haunted Smile tackles a subject both poignant and delightful: the story of Jewish comedians in America. For the past century and more, American comedy has drawn its strength and soul from the comic genius of Jewish performers and writers. An incomplete list...	Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life In the midseventies, Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. In 1981 he quit forever. This book is, in his own words, the story of "why I did stand-up and why I walked away." Emmy and Grammy Award winner, au...

Yes they did...and still do!
This volume does indeed provide many of "the funniest moments in radio, television, stand-up, and movie comedy." (Obviously, no single volume could provide all of them.) Credit Garner with the quality and scope of the selections; also with the insightful commentaries which accompany an abundance of illustrations. The DVD included, indifferently co-hosted by Carl and Rob Reiner, contains mostly fragments of comedy routines. The book's material is cleverly organized within three Parts which focus on radio and television, stand-up, and movies, respectively. Garner inserts within each Part what he calls Sidebars. For example "Kings of Late Night"; "The Catskills, Casinos, and the Rise of Stand-Up"; and "Preston Sturges: Master of the Screwball Comedy." Each reader will have her or his own favorite sections, presumably determined by their favorite comedians. For me, it was a special treat to share Garner's thoughts about the historical significance of certain entertainers and directors in terms of their contributions to the creation and subsequent development of a unique art form. For example, listed in alphabetical order, Fred Allen, Roseanne Barr, Milton Berle, Lenny Bruce, Charles Chaplin, Bill Cosby, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, the Marx Brothers, Lorne Michaels, Richard Pryor, Hal Roach, Will Rogers, Jerry Seinfeld, Mack Sennett, and Billy Wilder. I also wish to praise Garner for not "getting in the way." He avoids doing so by providing a wealth of excerpts from material as it was originally performed. His focus (and ours) is always on the given subject. Among the best excerpts are the Lou Grant (Ed Asner) interview of Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) and "Classic Romantic Comedy Repartee: Love and Lust, Wit and Wisdom" excerpts from dialogue in classics such as She Done Him Wrong (1933), The Thin Man (1934), and Pillow Talk (1959). My only regret is that no index is provided. Otherwise, this is a brilliantly produced volume which, especially in combination with the DVD, preserves for generations to come so many of the funniest moments in radio, television, stand-up, and movies which would otherwise not be accessible from a single source. Thank you!

Great Stories of Great Humor
The sub-title says a lot. This is a collection of stories about comedy through the years. The list is too long to repeat here, but if it was funny: on stage, on radio, on television or in the movies, it's probably here. It's written that you don't need to sit down and go from beginning to end. You flip through and you find Richard Pryor, or Bill Murray, or here's the story of the Smothers Brothers TV show getting cancelled because of political sensitivities, immediately to be followed by Laugh In. To top it off, there's a CD, worth the price of the book by itself there's a DVD. On it, Carl and Rob Reiner present a compilation of clips from Charlie Chaplin to Jerry Lewis to Jim Carrey. This is a very good, very entertaining book. This is not a funny book. It's a book about being funny. What it does is make you remember those movies, those shows that MADE YOU LAUGH.