| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xix, 264 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Jerry Seinfeld -- And further delaying tactics / Mark Schiff & Ritch Shydner -- Hey, Mr. Cooper! / Larry Miller -- My first road trip / Ron Shock -- This ain't my first gig / David Tyree -- My ride is here / Ant -- Life with Rodney / Robert Schimmel -- A lost love / Jay Leno -- Joke's on me / Mack Dryden -- The 200-pound heckle / Bob Goldthwait -- The mark of a genius / Jackie Martling -- Get in the car / Margaret Smith -- Shaq can stop bullets / Carlos Mencia -- A tip from Bob Hope / Dan Bradley (as told to Jason Dixon) -- Only Superman onstage / Daniel Tosh -- Blame them for my funny / Bob Marley -- Something I said? / Jerry Seinfeld -- No love from a llama / John Bowman -- Alabama waitress / Barry Marder -- The pissed-off pirate and me / Cathryn Michon -- Is she still drunk? / Alex Cole -- Poker flats did just that / Marcie Smolin -- Funny goes to the front of the line / Brant von Hoffman -- I'm the motherfucking man / Chris Rock -- A night at the precinct / Brett Butler -- Henny worked clean / T. Sean Shannon -- The perfect intro for Sam / Ralphie May -- Lefkowitz comedy / Pat Cooper -- Man overboard / Ray Romano -- The show must go on / Rita Rudner -- The real Andy Kaufman has stood up / Bob Zmuda -- The real high / Ritch Shydner -- Entertaining the mob / Allan Havey -- Early digs / Paula Poundstone -- For the kids / Tom Papa -- Tanking it / Don Barnhart, Jr. -- Welcome to my world / Jeff Foxworthy -- Comic material / Dennis Miller -- Goodnight Charlie / Ophira Eisenberg -- Zippity-Doo-Dah / Rusty Warren -- The comic stripper / Eddie Brill -- State fair comedy / Richard Lewis -- Peer laughter / Billy Martin -- Is there a comic in the audience? / Tom Stern -- |
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Don't worry if they suck / Paul Reiser -- Giving my fans away / Paul Rodriguez -- A clinging love / John Heffron -- They weren't sedated / Ritch Shydner -- Wrong move on the wrong guy / Tim Allen -- Pay fight / George Westerholm -- Comedy house calls / Christopher Titus -- Willie and Richard at The Comedy Store / Charlie Hill -- A shining star / Shelley Berman -- Rodney and me / Jackie Martling -- Bad timing / Colin Quinn -- A Larry David crowd / Chris Albrecht -- Moving on black time / Lisa Lampanelli -- The Wile E. Coyote of comedy / Paul Kozak - Pryor and the fire / Harris Peet -- Don Adams hated standup / Ron Zimmerman -- You heckle me, you heckle Dean / Bill Maner -- A lost toy / The Amazing Jonathan -- The star returns / Jonathan Winters -- Upstaging Rich Little / Kevin Pollack -- The vanishing gig / Vince Moranto -- Driving Miss Stripper / Kelly Monteith -- The dream of doing standup / Larry David -- Eighty-proof review / Ron White -- Sunday night is blow-job night / Clay Heery -- Late-night dining / Mark Russell -- The funny side of typing / Jay Thomas -- Promo at a funeral / Dante Garza -- The N word wins / Heath Hyche -- Roseanne, Rodney, and Pritikin / Louie Anderson -- Live nude comedy / Marcie Smolin -- I said what? / Henry Cho -- Opening for Prince / Judy Carter -- A special night / Jonathan Solomon -- The Irish Tenor / Kevin Nealon -- Driving Johnny home / Bruce Smirnoff -- You follow the burning bush / Bob Saget -- A modest proposal / Patton Oswalt -- Spartacus finally gets a laugh / Steve Alan Green -- 100% cotton / Mike Myers -- Check the oil and clean the punch lines / Kip Adotta -- |
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It's not decaf / George Lopez -- Classy gig / Michael Patrick King - A comic no-show / Diane Nichols -- Save the goldfish / Tom Arnold -- Don't heckle the driver / Judy Tenuta -- A trained smart-ass / Carl Labove -- Armed and affectionate / D.L. Hughley -- Is that what I think it is? / Doug Stanhope -- Even a politician has to pay / Earthquake -- Sorry about the funny / Drew Carey -- Stage clothes -- George Wallace -- Joke pimp / Joe Bolster -- Motorcycle mayhem / Jimmy Shubert -- Follow that / Chrissy Burns -- Jokes for an orgy / Rick Overton -- My mom loves George Carlin / Dennis Blair -- Swanee, how I hate ya! / Kathy Griffin -- The joke is in the house / Paul Mooney -- Doing Ron White / Frank Lunney -- The first rule of a show / Steven Wright -- A little comedy from the audience / Vic Henley -- Hooked on love / Steve Wilson -- Not that kind of girl / Mike Preminger -- The laugh is on me / Helen Kearney -- The one-handed clap / Jim O'Brien -- A fool for the road / Larry the Cable Guy -- Any publicity is good, but ... / Tony Robinson -- Funny as a guy / Mishna Wolf -- Where the Tuscaloosa / Dobie "Mr. Lucky: Maxwell -- Keep the crowds down / Kenny Kramer -- Buddy Hackett's late-night dining / London Lee -- Here's last night's show / Mike McDonald -- The joke was on me / Rodney Carrington -- Making friends with Kenny G / Mike Rowe -- She dead in my bed / Doug Williams -- Don't ask him to do a second show / John Fox -- Thongs / Jennifer Rawlings -- Heeeeere's David / David Steinberg -- Traveling with my father / Mark Schiff -- The lost fishhook / Joan Maurer -- Killing at a funeral / Vicki Barbolak -- Laughs in Bosnia / Bernie McGrenehan. |
| Subject |
Stand-up comedy -- United States -- Miscellanea.
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| Added Author |
Shydner, Ritch.
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Schiff, Mark.
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| ISBN |
0307341992 alkaline paper |
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9780307341990 alkaline paper |
| Standard No. |
9780307341990 |
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