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English
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"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Three episodes of the Dick Van Dyke Show from the 1962 season. Never name a duck: Richie gets attached when Rob brings home baby ducks. Bank book 6565696: Rob gets mad when he discovers that Laura has her "own money." Hustling the hustler: When a pool shark takes Rob for $300, he discovers that Laura's talents might be able to save him.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An Emmy Award-winning original Saturday Night Live writer draws on personal memories and interviews with such contemporaries as Eric Idle and Dave Barry in a cultural memoir that includes discussions of the creative process behind classic skits.
Author
Language
English
Description
A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson.
Being a Black woman in American means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities. Robinson uses her trademark wit to explore examine our cultural climate and skewer our biases with humor and heart.
"Being a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every...
6) Springfield confidential: jokes, secrets, and outright lies from a lifetime writing for the Simpsons
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The longest-serving writer and producer for "The Simpsons" offers a humorous look at the writing and making of the legendary Fox series that has become one of the most revered artistic achievements in television history.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"There are things Chelsea Devantez probably shouldn't be telling you. Many of them are in this book: some are embarrassing (like when she tried to break her three year spell of celibacy using a guide of seduction tips). Some are confessional (getting sentenced to the "hell hill" at Mormon church camp). Some are TMI (a series of outrageous doctor visits that ended with one doctor misdiagnosing her as "pregnant." Woopsies!). Then there are things Chelsea...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Larry contemplates his future with an ailing Loretta, and decides on a novel approach to winning back Cheryl. In addition to Larry finding himself embroiled in usual cauldron of self-made crises, he orchestrates a reunion with the entire cast of Seinfeld.
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The legendary creator of iconic television programs All in the Family, Sanford and Son, Maude, Good Times, The Jeffersons, and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Norman Lear remade our television culture, while leading a life of unparalleled political, civic, and social involvement. Sharing the wealth of Lear's ninety years, this is a memoir as touching and remarkable as the life he has led.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Struggling TGS writer Liz Lemon seems to have found a new groove, but with GE executive Jack Donaghy scheming, Tracy Jordan finding his voice as an idiot, Jenna Maroney taking her love life to new levels of extreme, and Kenneth Parcell being Kenneth, will the chaos be too much for the new and improved Liz to handle?
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The series proves how seemingly trivial details of one's day-to-day life, a trip to the grocery store, a remark at a dinner party, a fender-bender, can precipitate a 'Murphy's Law' chain of misfortune to hilarious effect. To keep the narrative spontaneous, Curb is shot without a script; cast members are given scene outlines and often improvise lines as they go.
Series
Curb your enthusiasm volume 9
Publisher
HBO Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Larry's back -- and that's pritty, pritty, pritty good news! Six years after the award-winning Curb Your Enthusiasm ended its last season, HBO brought back the hit series starring writer/producer/comedian Larry David as ... writer/producer/comedian Larry David. Each episode features verité-style footage of David (playing himself) as he gets into everyday predicaments with both fictional and real-life personalities. With cast regulars Jeff Garlin...
18) Here today
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Starring Larry David as an over-the-top version of himself, the iconic Emmy and Golden Globe-winning comedy series offers a tongue-in-cheek depiction of the writer/producer/comedian's fictionalized life. Season eleven finds Larry once again seeking and dispensing his own peculiar brand of social justice.
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