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• Biographies (14) • Autobiographies (4) • Encyclopedias (8) • Dictionaries (1) • Essays (13) • Film Reviews (3) • Studies (48) • Stories (18) • Screenplays (3) • Photos (3) • Didactic (1) • Filmmakers' writings (5) • Writings (6) • Novel (2)
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• Biographies (14 books)(0 book)
SHEMP! (2024)
The Biography of The Three Stooges' Shemp Howard, The Face of Film Comedy
by Burt Kearns
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Actor > The Three Stooges
Four of the Three Musketeers (2022)
The Marx Brothers on Stage
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
Groucho Marx (2019)
The Comedy of Existence
by Lee Siegel
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Actor > Groucho Marx
Charlie Chaplin (2017)
A Political Biography from Victorian Britain to Modern America
by Richard Carr
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Director > Charlie Chaplin
Harold Lloyd (2009)
Magic in a Pair of Horn-Rimmed Glasses
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Actor > Harold LLoyd
Jimmy Durante (2007)
His Show Business Career, with an Annotated Filmography and Discography
by David Bakish
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Jimmy Durante
Joe E. Brown (2006)
Film Comedian and Baseball Buffoon
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Joe E. Brown
P.G. Wodehouse and Hollywood (2006)
Screenwriting, Satires and Adaptations
by Brian Taves
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Others persons > P.G. Wodehouse
Monkey Business (2003)
The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
• Autobiographies (4 books)(0 book)
Wanna Bet? (2018)
A Degenerate Gambler's Guide to Living on the Edge
by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Subject: Actor > Artie Lange
W.C. Fields by Himself (2016)
His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles
by W.C. Fields
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Subject: Actor > W.C. Fields
Crash and Burn (2013)
by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza
Publisher: Touchstone
Subject: Actor > Artie Lange
Too Fat to Fish (2008)
by Artie Lange and Anthony Bozza
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Subject: Actor > Artie Lange
• Encyclopedias (8 books)(0 book)
The Annotated Abbott and Costello (2023)
A Complete Viewer's Guide to the Comedy Team and Their 38 Films
by Matthew Coniam and Nick Santa Maria
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Abbott & Costello
Seinfeld (2019)
Seasons 1-5, an episode guide
Publisher: Sonicbond
Subject: One Film > Seinfeld (TV Series)
Monty Python FAQ (2017)
All That's Left to Know about Spam, Grails, Spam, Nudging, Bruces and Spam
by Brian Cogan
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Actor > Monty Python
Seinfeld FAQ (2015)
Everything Left to Know About the Show About Nothing
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: One Film > Seinfeld (TV Series)
The Annotated Marx Brothers (2015)
A Filmgoer's Guide to In-Jokes, Obscure References and Sly Details
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
Three Stooges FAQ (2011)
Everything Left to Know About the Eye-Poking, Face-Slapping, Head-Thumping Geniuses
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Actor > The Three Stooges
• Dictionaries (1 book)(0 book)
Comedy Quotes from the Movies (2001)
Over 4,000 Bits of Humorous Dialogue from All Film Genres, Topically Arranged and Indexed
by Larry Langman and Paul Gold
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: On Films > Lines and dialogues
• Essays (13 books)(0 book)
Mel Brooks—Seriously! (2025)
Essays on the Films, Television Shows and Standup
Dir. Sue Matheson
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Mel Brooks
Beyond a Joke (2021)
Parody in English Film and Television Comedy
by Neil Archer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Countries > Great Britain
The Political Mel Brooks (2019)
Dir. Samuel Boerboom and Beth E. Bonnstetter
Publisher: Lexington Books
Subject: Director > Mel Brooks
'Broadsword Calling Danny Boy' (2019)
Watching 'Where Eagles Dare'
by Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Pantheon (USA)
Subject: One Film > Where Eagles Dare
Mockumentary Comedy (2018)
Performing Authenticity
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Python beyond Python (2017)
Critical Engagements with Culture
Dir. Paul N. Reinsch, B. Lynn Whitfield and Robert G. Weiner
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Subject: Actor > Monty Python
Laurel and Hardy's Comic Catastrophes (2017)
Laughter and Darkness in the Features and Short Films
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: Actor > Laurel & Hardy
Drawn to the Gods (2017)
Religion and Humor in The Simpsons, South Park, and Family Guy
Publisher: New York University (NYU) Press
Subject: One Film > The Simpsons (TV Series), South Park (TV Series), Family Guy (TV Series)
The Last Laugh (2013)
Strange Humors of Cinema
Dir. Murray Pomerance
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Sociology
What Made Pistachio Nuts? (1992)
Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
• Film Reviews (3 books)(0 book)
The Drop Dead Funny '70s (2023)
American Film Comedies Year by Year
by Dan Lalande
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Thunderbook (2022)
The World of Bond According to Smersh Pod
by John Rain
Publisher: Polaris Publishing
Subject: One Film > James Bond
Explodobook (2021)
The World of 80s Action Movies According to Smersh Pod
by John Rain
Publisher: Polaris Publishing
• Studies (48 books)(0 book)
Blazing Saddles Meets Young Frankenstein (2024)
The 50th Anniversary of the Year of Mel Brooks
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: One Film > Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises (2024)
by Massih Zekavat and Tabea Scheel
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Sociology
The Cinema of Stephen Chow (2024)
Dir. Gary Bettinson and Vivian P. Y. Lee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Subject: Director > Stephen Chow
Inside Comedy (2023)
The Soul, Wit, and Bite of Comedy and Comedians of the Last Five Decades
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Israeli Bourekas Films (2023)
Their Origins and Legacy
by Rami Kimchi
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Spoofing the Vampire (2022)
Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy
Dir. Simon Bacon
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Marx Brothers and America (2022)
Where Film, Comedy and History Collide
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
Routledge Library Editions - Comedy (2022)
11 Volume Set
Collective
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Funny How? (2021)
Sketch Comedy and the Art of Humor
by Alex Clayton
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Laughing to Keep from Dying (2020)
African American Satire in the Twenty-First Century
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
And Now for Something Completely Different (2020)
Critical Approaches to Monty Python
Dir. Kate Egan and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Actor > Monty Python
Isn't that Clever (2020)
A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Seinfeld (2020)
A Cultural History
by Paul Arras
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Subject: One Film > Seinfeld (TV Series)
When the World Laughs (2020)
Film Comedy East and West
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Comic Imagination in Modern African Literature and Cinema (2019)
A Poetics of Laughter
by Maik Nwosu
Publisher: Routledge
Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin (2019)
Little Men, Big Auteurs
by Jill Franks
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Woody Allen, Charlie Chaplin
Hitchcock and Humor (2019)
Modes of Comedy in Twelve Defining Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Director > Alfred Hitchcock
The Comedy Studies Reader (2018)
Dir. Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes (2018)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Silent Cinema
Mock Classicism (2018)
Latin American Film Comedy, 1930–1960
by Nilo Couret
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Countries > Latin America
Funny Thing About Murder (2017)
Modes of Humor in Crime Fiction and Films
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
Slapstick Divas (2017)
The Women of Silent Comedy
by Steve Massa
Publisher: BearManor Media
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Hokum! (2017)
The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture
by Rob King
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
That's Me, Groucho! (2016)
The Solo Career of Groucho Marx
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Groucho Marx
Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-War Fiction Film (2016)
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Subject: Countries > The Netherlands
Sounding Funny (2016)
Sound and Comedy Cinema
Dir. Mark Evans and Philip Hayward
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema (2014)
Dir. Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Countries > Middle East
Buffoon Men (2013)
Classic Hollywood Comedians and Queered Masculinity
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
American Smart Cinema (2012)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Subject: Genre > Independent cinema
Historical Comedy on Screen (2011)
Dir. Hannu Salmi
Publisher: Intellect Books
Subject: Genre > Historical films
From Silver Screen to Spanish Stage (2011)
The Humorists of the Madrid Vanguardia and Hollywood Film
by Stuart Green
Publisher: University of Wales Press
A Splurch in the Kisser (2009)
The Movies of Blake Edwards
by Sam Wasson
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: Director > Blake Edwards
Currents of Comedy on the American Screen (2009)
How Film and Television Deliver Different Laughs for Changing Times
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Body in Hollywood Slapstick (2007)
by Alex Clayton
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Comic World of the Marx Brothers' Movies (2007)
"Anything Further Father?"
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
Dying for a Laugh (2006)
Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination
by Ken Feil
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Subject: Genre > Disaster films
The Runaway Bride (2002)
Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930's
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Wheeler & Woolsey (2001)
The Vaudeville Comic Duo and Their Films, 1929–1937
by Edward Watz
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Wheeler & Woolsey
Romantic Comedy in Hollywood (1998)
From Lubitsch to Sturges
by James Harvey
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Laughing Hysterically (1996)
American Screen Comedy of the 1950s
by Ed Sikov
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Groucho and W. C. Fields (1994)
Huckster Comedians
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Jerry Lewis Films (1994)
An Analytical Filmography of the Innovative Comic
by James L. Neibaur and Ted Okuda
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: Actor > Jerry Lewis
Inside Soviet film satire (1993)
Laughter with a lash
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Subject: Countries > Russia / USSR
Pursuits of Happiness (1981)
The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
• Stories (18 books)(0 book)
Fawlty Towers (2025)
Fawlts and All: A 50th anniversary celebration of the nation's beloved sitcom
by John Cleese
Publisher: Headline
Subject: One Film > Fawlty Towers (TV Series)
Carry On Regardless (2025)
Getting to the Bottom of Britain's Favourite Comedy Films.
Publisher: White Owl
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
The Pink Panther (2025)
A Complete History
Publisher: McFarland & Co
Subject: One Film > The Pink Panther
The Biggest Thing in Show Business (2024)
Living It Up with Martin & Lewis
by Murray Pomerance and Matthew Solomon
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Subject: Actor > Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin
Being Patrick Swayze (2022)
Essential Teachings from the Master of the Mullet
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Subject: Actor > Patrick Swayze
The Office Book of Lists (2022)
The Official Guide to Quotes, Pranks, Characters, and Memorable Moments from Dunder Mifflin
by Chip Carter
Publisher: Running Press
Subject: One Film > The Office (TV Series)
Cut to the Monkey (2021)
A Hollywood Editor's Behind-the-Scenes Secrets to Making Hit Comedies
by Roger Nygard
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Monty Python's Flying Circus (2019)
Hidden Treasures
Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd
Subject: One Film > Monty Python's Flying Circus
Monty Python Speaks (2019)
The Complete Oral History
by David Morgan
Publisher: Dey Street Books
Subject: One Film > Monty Python's Flying Circus
Young Frankenstein (2016)
The Story of the Making of the Film
by Mel Brooks
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Subject: One Film > Young Frankenstein
The Beatles A Hard Day's Night (2016)
A private archive
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Subject: One Film > A Hard Day's Night
Seinfeldia (2016)
How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Subject: One Film > Seinfeld (TV Series)
Funny (2012)
The Book: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Comedy
by David Misch
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Genre > Comedy/Humor
Film and Television In-Jokes (2008)
Nearly 2,000 Intentional References, Parodies, Allusions, Personal Touches, Cameos, Spoofs and Homages
Publisher: McFarland & Co
• Screenplays (3 books)(0 book)
Monty Python's Flying Circus (2012)
Complete and Annotated...All the Bits
by Monty Python
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
Subject: One Film > Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Seinfeld Scripts (1998)
The First and Second Seasons
by Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David
Publisher: It Books
Subject: One Film > Seinfeld (TV Series)
Monty Python's Flying Circus (1990)
Just the words
by Monty Python
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd
Subject: One Film > Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Photos (3 books)(0 book)
• Didactic (1 book)(0 book)
The Comic Hero's Journey (2018)
Serious Story Structure for Fabulously Funny Films
by Steve Kaplan
Publisher: Michael Wiese Productions
Subject: Technique > Scriptwriting
• Filmmakers' writings (5 books)(0 book)
Ayoade on Ayoade (2016)
A Cinematic Odyssey
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Subject: Director > Richard Ayoade
Getting Away With It (1999)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Subject: Director > Steven Soderbergh, Richard Lester
• Writings (6 books)(0 book)
Yes, I Can Say That (2020)
When They Come for the Comedians, We Are All in Trouble
by Judy Gold
Publisher: Dey Street
Fields for President (2016)
by W.C. Fields
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Subject: Actor > W.C. Fields
Groucho Marx and Other Short Stories and Tall Tales (2011)
Selected Writings of Groucho Marx
Dir. Robert S. Bader
Publisher: Applause Books
Subject: Actor > Groucho Marx
Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel (1988)
The Marx Brothers' Lost Radio Show
Publisher: Pantheon (USA)
Subject: Actor > Marx Brothers
• Novel (2 books)(0 book)
American Psycho (2025)
How to Make a Killing in Business...and Life
Publisher: Rizzoli Universe
Subject: One Film > American Psycho
Star trek cats (2018)
Next Generation
by Jenny Parks
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Subject: One Film > Star Trek (TV Series)
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