[NEohioPAL]Cleveland Public Library: Make 'em Laugh

[Donald Boozer]

This week's posting from the Literature
Department at Cleveland Public Library highlights
books on performing comedy and improv.
The Literature Department is located on the
second floor of the Main Library, downtown
Cleveland, at East Sixth Street and Superior Avenue.
Click on the link provided to access the library=92s catalog
to reserve any of these titles.
For more information, visit our location, call 216-623-2881,
or email us at =93literature <at> cpl.org.=94


Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy.
Franklyn Ajaye.
Silman-James Press, 2002.
(PN1969.C65 A39 2002)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D1879505541
(Link includes summary and table of contents)
"Comic Insights contains fascinating, candid, insightful
interviews with today's top comedians, who discuss at length
why and how they do what they do." -- from the back cover


How To Do It Standing Up:
     The Friars Club Guide to Being a Comic,
     a Cut-Up, a Card, or a Clown.
Barry Dougherty.
Black Dog & Leventhal, 2002.
(PN1969.C65 D685 2002)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D157912254x
"Listen and learn as today's funniest and most successful
stand-up comedians share their favorite stories; offer personal,=20
hard-won advice; and expound upon the world they know best."
-- from the back cover


Stand-Up! On Being A Comedian.
Oliver Double.
Methuen, 1997.
(PN1969.C65 D68 1997)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D0413703207
"Stand Up! is the first book to both analyse the background
of stand-up and take us inside the world of being a solo comedian."
"[Double] holds a PhD from Sheffield University, being the first
person to write a doctoral thesis about stand-up comedy." -- from the=
 back cover


The Ultimate Improv Book:
     A Complete Guide to Comedy Improvisation.
Edward J. Nevraumont and Nicholas P. Hanson.
Meriwether Publishing Ltd., 2001.
(PN1969.C65 N49 2001)
http://www.cpl.org/cgi-bin/lookup.pl?isbn=3D1566080754
(Link includes summary and table of contents)
This comprehensive manual shows the who, what, when,
why and how of comedy improvisation. It is a complete
improv curriculum program divided into twenty-four
class-length units.=20

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Donald Boozer, Literature Department
Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114
donald.boozer at cpl.org
216-623-2881 / 216-623-7050 (fax)
http://www.cpl.org