Analysing why we laugh & what we laugh at & describing how performers can elicit this response from their audience this book enables actors to create memorable
- & hilarious
- performances Rooted in performance & performance criticism Sidney Homan & Brian Rhinehart provide a detailed explanation of how comedy works along with advice on how to communicate comedy from the point of view of both the performer & the audience Combining theory & performance the authors analyse a variety of plays both modern & classic Playwrights featured include Harold Pinter Tom Stoppard Christopher Durang & Michael Frayn Acting in Shakespeare's comedies is also covered in depth

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Stan Helsing In this insane spoof every horror movie ever made comes hilariously to life as slacker Stan & his stoner pals try to deliver videos to a deserted California town on Halloween night After being stalked by realistic replicas of horror characters Freddy Kruger Pinhead & The Creeper our gang arrives in the small burg which formerly contained a horror movie studio
- hence the throngs of freaky familiar characters literally crawling the streets Our crew of two mischievous guys & two sexy girls outwit & outslash every cinematic horror character
- or in the case of Michael Jackson merely horrific
- to uncover the town&s shocking secret the studio s still at it making movies of a very ahem different kind When the creatures won t let our heroes leave Stan decides to live up to his monster-slaying namesake&s destiny But first he must endure a Survivor -style competition gobbling down body parts! Risque righteous revolting & ridiculous Stan Helsing is more than a slayer
- it&s totally killer The Slammin Salmon Slammin Cleon Salmon (Michael Clarke Duncan) the former Heavyweight Champion of the World & current owner of a high-scale Miami restaurant has racked up a sizable gambling debt to a band of Japanese thugs To help pay off the debt Cleon challenges his oddball waiter staff (the Broken Lizard Comedy Troupe as well as Cobie Smulders & April Bowlby) to a contest where the top-selling server will win 10000 while the waiter in last place gets a broken-rib sandwich
- courtesy of the Champ himself Spurred on by greed & panic the staff resort to backstabbing bribery & indecent proposals in an attempt to up sell their patrons while simultaneously sabotaging their co-workers Will Forte Olivia Munn & Vivica A Fox co-star in one of the Top 10 Comedies of the Year! (Ryan Mc Kee AOL Moviefone) Age Rating 18




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In the ice-skating farce BLADES OF GLORY two rival skaters attempt a historical comeback in the pair-skating competition after having being banned for unsportsmanlike conduct Their combined talent threatens the position of fellow skating champs the Van Waldenberg siblings In ZOOLANDER an especially dim-witted male model is forced into the shadows by his rival Upon his reluctant retirement from the fashion industry he is brainwashed into assassinating the Malaysian Prime Minister In TEAM AMERICA an international agency intent on maintaining global stability learn that terrorists aided by a tyrannical dictator have hatched a plot to take over the world Our heroes accompanied by a Broadway star travel the globe on a mission to thwart the dastardly dictator's plan In WAYNE'S WORLD two small-town cable TV hosts & lifetime best friends spend their days & nights chasing babes & refusing to give up their long-haired head-banging ways ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play You&re sure to be tickled by this hilarious audience with veteran comedian Ken Dodd! Including 40 minutes not seen in the TV version & Another Audience With Ken Dodd& invites you to laugh along with Doddy & join the star-studded audience
- including Claire Sweeney Ricky Tomlinson Carol Vorderman TV chef Gary Rhodes Denis Norden Doctor Who Sylvester Mc Coy Henry Cooper Frank Bruno & the fine thespians of Coronation Street & Emmerdale Marvel as Ken sings everything from grand opera to romantic ballads & be entranced by the magic of his Diddy pal Dicky Mint! Tatty bye! Actors Ken Dodd Claire Sweeney Ricky Tomlinson Carol Vorderman Gary Rhodes Denis Norden Sylvester Mc Coy Henry Cooper & Frank Bruno Certificate PGYear 2010 Screen Fullscreen 1331 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles None Listed Duration 1 hour & 36 minutes (approx)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play " There was a knock at the door & I knew it was the wife&s mother
- because the mice were throwing themselves at the trap" Nobody could tell a mother-in-law joke like Les Dawson but there was always far much more to him than this workingmen&s club school of humour
- at which he was admittedly unrivalled For as well as being a superb st&-up comedian Les Dawson was also a first-rate pianist an excellent pantomime artist a sketch-artist writer & had even played in a jazz band in his time In his later years he made an anarchic success of both Blankety Blank & Opportunity Knocks but it was with his own variety shows like The Les Dawson Show that you got to see the full panoply of his talents Actors Les Dawson Certificate PG Languages English Duration 1 hour 20 minutes (approx)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Tribute to Les Dawson the gurning maestro of the mother-in-law gag & piano player extraordinaire Although he found success as host of & Blankety Blank& & & Opportunity Knocks& it is for his comedy sketches & st&-up routines that the former boxing champion is best remembered Actors Les Dawson Certificate PGLanguages English ...

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Confusion between two masters & two servants gives rise to further complications involving two sisters Shakespearean drama featuring Dame Judi Dench ...

When the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards announced a contest for the funniest animal photo they received entries from all over the world Now authors & the original Award founders Paul Joynson-Hicks & Tom Sullam showcase the best of the best
- as well as some never before seen
- to present the most joyful photographs of wildlife ever printed A pelican losing its lunch; a three-headed giraffe; a meerkat having a rough day this is the must-have book that is perfect for animal lovers of all stripes!

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To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions what for instance is humour & how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh & why? What is it that writers & speakers enjoy
- & risk
- when they tell a joke indulge in bathos talk nonsense or encourage irony? This Very Short Introduction explores comedy both as a literary genre & as a range of non-literary phenomena experiences & events Matthew Bevis studies the classics of comic drama prose fiction & poetry alongside forms of pantomime comic opera silent cinema popular music Broadway shows music-hall st&-up & circus acts rom-coms sketch shows sit-coms caricatures & cartoons Taking in scenes from Aristophanes to The Office from the Roman Saturnalia to Groundhog Day Bevis also considers comic theory from Aristotle to Freud & beyond tracing how comic achievements have resisted as well as confirmed theory across the ages This book takes comedy seriously without taking it solemnly & offers an engaging study of the comic spirit which lies at the heart of our shared social & cultural life ABOUT THE SERIES The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly Our expert authors combine facts analysis perspective new ideas & enthusiasm to make interesting & challenging topics highly readable

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