Comedy Performance

The tools improvisers use to create wonderful - and often hilarious - scenes on stage are easily transferred off the stage and into real life. These tools have changed my life completely, and I want to share that with you. In this audiobook, you’ll find some of our favorite improv exercises as well as real-life examples of how our students’ mind-sets and lives have grown and become ultimately fulfilling through practicing improvisation.

Episode 5 in the third series of The Ricky Gervais Show, in which Ricky Gervais and Steve Merchant discuss Karl Pilkington's literary achievements.

A piano tuner called Murkin, a close-shaven man with a yellow face, with a nose stained with snuff and cotton wool in his ears, came out of his hotel room into the passage. And looking at his frightened face one might have supposed that the ceiling had fallen in on him. 'Upon my word, Semyon!' he cried, seeing the attendant running towards him. 'What is the meaning of it? I am a rheumatic, delicate man and you make me go barefoot! Why is it you don't give me my boots all this time? Where are they?'

This hilarious joke book contains 100+ of the absolute best dirty, filthy, vulgar, politically incorrect, offensive, not safe for work jokes ever created! This book pokes fun at everyone and is very insensitive so if you are easily offended then this book is not for you. But if you can roll with the punches then this joke book will have you rolling on the floor laughing!

We all make mistakes in life from which we draw valuable lessons. I, on the other hand, cannot seem to learn my lessons the normal way. I must mess up spectacularly, sometimes multiple times, for my thick skull to allow a lesson to pass through it. This book is a reflection on some of the lessons my brain somehow held on to and the crazy, funny, and outright stupid situations that led to these lessons learned.

Here are the best-ever Yo Mamma jokes on earth. These are guaranteed to make you roll on the floor laughing. Tell these at parties and get-together's and be the star of the entertainment.

Con Antonio Sanint. Ser comediante no es cosa fácil, ni materia de risas, no señor. Tratar de hacer reír al otro es una experiencia endemoniada, muy divertida eso sí, pero infernal. Acompaña al reconocido comediante colombiano Gonzalo Valderrama a descubrir junto a sus famosos invitados cuáles son las obsesiones, procesos creativos, retos y pecados que tienen a estos ´standuperos´ en llamas y de tour descendiendo por los círculos del Infierno.

Mathematics meets comedy in this collection of 10 stories by Lewis Carroll. When listening to the audiobook, you won’t be able to help yourself from wishing Carroll was your childhood math teacher. One way to disarm the intimidating tasks of solving a mathematical problem, is with a sincere smile on our faces.

In today’s world, it seems like it is becoming ever more important to figure out how to laugh. Society today seems always to be so serious and doesn’t make time for the most important things - like laughing with your friends and family over a few good jokes. So make your life more enjoyable and dive into jokes you haven’t heard of before!

A fourth volume of highlights from recent series of The News Quiz, presented by chairman Simon Hoggart. Since 1977, BBC Radio 4's funniest and quirkiest game show has been answering questions and offering wit and wisdom on global happenings, national news and quite frankly pathetic parochial events.

Great for a gift. This book is full of knee-slappers and eye-rolling jokes. Some great, ol' fashioned dad jokes.

If you want to know how to do stand-up comedy, then get the How to Be a Stand Up Comedian guide now. You will discover simple step-by-step secrets on how to succeed at improv stand-up comedy.

Dame Edith Evans, Sir John Gielgud and Anthony Quayle perform a selection of 18th-century comedy.

This audiobook includes the best yo mamma jokes on earth. These are guaranteed to make you roll on the floor laughing. Tell these at parties and get-togethers and be the star of the entertainment.

As one of America's hottest female comedians, Lisa Lampanelli has earned critical acclaim across the country for her no-holds-barred style and ability to make people laugh at their own stereotypes and differences. Now, from the gutter-mouth comedienne who "talks like a truck driver but resembles a '50s housewife" (New York Times) comes her over-the-top, laugh-out-loud memoir, Chocolate, Please.

Step behind the curtain of one of television’s most iconic shows with Live from New York! Five Decades of Laughs, Legends, and Lobster Claws. This unauthorized, unhinged, and unapologetic deep dive into Saturday Night Live takes you on a wild ride through 50 years of comedy chaos, legendary sketches, and the stars who made it all happen. From Chevy Chase’s pratfalls to Eddie Murphy’s Gumby, from “More Cowbell” to Kate McKinnon’s alien-abducting RBG, this book is your backstage pass to the laughter, drama, and occasional cocaine-fueled meltdowns that defined SNL.

Back in 1972, people had never heard of Samantha, Sven, nor Mrs. Trellis, and had no idea of the rules of Mornington Crescent, nor what points are for. The year 2022 marks 50 years of radio insanity—of the nation's finest comic minds being given silly things to do, with some of them set to music. Celebrate the Golden Anniversary of the greatest radio comedy of all time, the antidote to panel games, with the epic and exhaustive, fully authorized history of both I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again and its beloved spin-off, I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue.

親子の情愛を描いた人情噺の名作で、五代目圓楽十八番中の十八番。腰元彫りの名人・浜野矩康の跡を継いだ息子・矩随。しかし、あまりにも未熟な二代目に対する世間の風は冷たく、先代からの客だった若狭屋に「下手なものを作るなら死んだほうがよい」と罵倒され矩随は苦悩する。そんな矩随を見た母親は… 平成2年2月の“東京落語会”(イイノホール)で長講と銘打って50分を超える熱演を聴かせてくれた、五代目圓楽の落語を代表する貴重な一席。

品川の花魁お染が心中の相手に選んだのは、貸本屋の金蔵というさえない男。惚れたお染のためにと張り切った金蔵は長屋を引き払い、親方にも暇乞いを告げてお染の元へと駆けつけるが… 昭和58年に“東京落語会”(イイノホール)で収録され、NHK「夜の指定席」で放送された音源。当時、一門の総帥として乗りに乗っていた絶好調の圓楽節が堪能できる一席。

ご存知の大御所三遊亭圓楽、iTunesに堂々登場！昭和61年のＮＨＫ「演芸指定席」からの放送音源。粋な語りと豊かな表現で聴かせる、圓楽ならではの話芸をたっぷり楽しめる。得意の人情噺をじっくり聴かせてくれる熱演！　(C)NHK（日本放送協会）