Performing Arts: Comedy

What are the barriers to women’s participation in live comedy, and how are these barriers maintained in the digital era?In this book, Ellie Tomsett...

Satire reconsiders the entertainment, political dissent and comic social commentary created by innovative writers and directors since this theatric...

* DELUXE PACKAGE: Special effects cover with metallic stock and leopard pattern creates a very Elle Woods package -- it's an explosion of pink powe...

Let your lobster know how much you love them with this officially licensed, charming DIY gift book, inspired by Friends.Whether you and your other ...

At only eighteen months old, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused herself in boiling water, resulting in third-degree burns...

'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard OsmanWhatever I now know about life - or think I know - I found out through failure, disappointment, m...

'A big hit of dopamine' EMILY GIFFIN*The instant New York Times bestseller!*****She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?Emma ha...

Comedy and Critique explores British professional stand-up comedy in the wake of the Alternative Comedy movement of the late twentieth century, see...

*A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*'A hilarious breath of fresh air' AMY SCHUMER'A razor-sharp dissection of cultural differences. And yes, it's side-splitt...

Plan out your whole day: two hours spent making snow angels, then ice skating, then eating a whole roll of cookie dough as fast as you can, and the...

In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, art...

The Guard’s Parcel is a steaming 226-page hardback compilation of the most fragrant cartoons, articles, letters and Top Tips from a whole year of V...