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Author : John Warner
language : en
Publisher: Soho Press
Release Date : 2011-09-27
The Funny Man written by John Warner and has been published by Soho Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-27 with Fiction categories.
This dark comedy about celebrity is from the author who is “among the most perceptive and edgy chroniclers of an increasingly coarse American culture” (New York Journal of Books). The funny man is a middling comic in an unnamed city. By day he takes care of his infant son; by night he performs in small clubs. His wife waits tables to support the family. It doesn’t sound like much, but they’re happy, more or less. Until the day he comes up with it. His thing. His gimmick. And everything changes. He’s a headliner, and the venues get bigger fast. Pretty soon he has a starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster, all thanks to the gimmick. Which is: He performs with his fist in his mouth. Jokes, impressions, commercials—all with his fist in his mouth. The people want him—are crazy for him—but only with his fist in his mouth. And the funny man is tired of having his fist in his mouth. Thus, as the novel begins, his career is in tatters, his family has left him, and he’s on trial for shooting an unarmed man six times. His lawyer argues that he is not guilty by reason of celebrity. It remains to be seen whether he can be saved . . . A smart satire of our absurd culture, The Funny Man documents one individual’s slide from everyman to monster—even as it reveals the potential for grace and mercy in his life.
Funny Man
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Author : Patrick McGilligan
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-03-19
Funny Man written by Patrick McGilligan and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films, and theater, from Patrick McGilligan, the acclaimed author of Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light. Oscar, Emmy, Tony, and Grammy award–winner Mel Brooks was behind (and sometimes in front the camera too) of some of the most influential comedy hits of our time, including The 2,000 Year Old Man, Get Smart, The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein. But before this actor, writer, director, comedian, and composer entertained the world, his first audience was his family. The fourth and last child of Max and Kitty Kaminsky, Mel Brooks was born on his family’s kitchen table in Brooklyn, New York, in 1926, and was not quite three-years-old when his father died of tuberculosis. Growing up in a household too poor to own a radio, Mel was short and homely, a mischievous child whose birth role was to make the family laugh. Beyond boyhood, after transforming himself into Mel Brooks, the laughs that came easily inside the Kaminsky family proved more elusive. His lifelong crusade to transform himself into a brand name of popular humor is at the center of master biographer Patrick McGilligan’s Funny Man. In this exhaustively researched and wonderfully novelistic look at Brooks’ personal and professional life, McGilligan lays bare the strengths and drawbacks that shaped Brooks’ psychology, his willpower, his persona, and his comedy. McGilligan insightfully navigates the epic ride that has been the famous funnyman’s life story, from Brooks’s childhood in Williamsburg tenements and breakthrough in early television—working alongside Sid Caesar and Carl Reiner—to Hollywood and Broadway peaks (and valleys). His book offers a meditation on the Jewish immigrant culture that influenced Brooks, snapshots of the golden age of comedy, behind the scenes revelations about the celebrated shows and films, and a telling look at the four-decade romantic partnership with actress Anne Bancroft that superseded Brooks’ troubled first marriage. Engrossing, nuanced and ultimately poignant, Funny Man delivers a great man’s unforgettable life story and an anatomy of the American dream of success. Funny Man includes a 16-page black-and-white photo insert.
The Funny Men
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Author : Steve Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
The Funny Men written by Steve Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Comedians categories.
A Funny Man
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Author : Patricia Jensen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
A Funny Man written by Patricia Jensen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Individuality categories.
A funny man with a funny smile, funny car, and funny crocodile likes to do things just a little bit differently. Includes activity pages.
Private Funny Man
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Author : Thomas A. Sr. Boland
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-08-02
Private Funny Man written by Thomas A. Sr. Boland and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-02 with categories.
This is a true story about how "Private Funny Man" came to have that name and how it suited him perfectly. Private Funny Man is best described as a mixture of Forest Gump and GI Joe on one side and Atticus Finch and Perry Mason on the other. It is the story of how he overcame poverty and a reading disability of dyslexia that had him labeled as being stupid. He failed several grades but was such a disrupted force in class that most teacher passed him on so they wouldn't have to deal with him again. Funny Man enlisted into the United States Marine Corps and it was a decision that changed his life. He finally learned how to read and after returning from Vietnam enrolled in college. He would go on to earn a BA, a MA and then a Juris Doctor of Law degree. He would go on to have a successful career in law. He was a champion for his clients as they, like him, were the underdogs. Humor was often the only tool he had to help keep his clients from spending a lifetime in jail. Still being drawn to service to his Country, he received a Commission as an Infantry officer in the United States Army Reserves at age 36. He was called to duty in Grenada, Panama, Desert Storm, Honduras, Egypt, Haiti and Bosnia. He became one of the oldest, if not the oldest, officer to complete the Army Airborne School at nearly 57 years of age. The remarkable thing is how many funny, crazy, interesting and often dangerous situations he always found himself involved. Surprisingly there is another side to Private Funny Man. He was named the South Carolina "Palmetto State Poet of the Year." He entertained many ladies with his poems and his knowledge of poets, painters, sculptors and singers. With his attitude of "No fear" that was equally balanced with "No sense," he has an endless number of hilarious encounters that he put to great use in the art of storytelling. But the best part of the story of all the funny, crazy and unusual ways he got into, and then out of, all types of trouble. Humor was his weapon of choice. His stories always ended with the listeners saying, "You have got to write a book." This is that book.
A Funny Man
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Author : Patricia Jensen
language : en
Publisher: Cartwheel Books
Release Date : 1993
A Funny Man written by Patricia Jensen and has been published by Cartwheel Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Baseball stories categories.
Follow the funny man in his funny car all around his funny town.
The Funny Guy
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Author : Jonathan W. Maupin
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2012-04
The Funny Guy written by Jonathan W. Maupin and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
In a world where frustration and sadness seem to be the norm, The Funny Guy breaks the mold. The comic strip focuses on a young man and his everyday situations, which become comical. The cartoon's main character (Fun) is a modern-day Charlie Chaplin! His days begin normal and end hilarious! and the people he interacts with each day represent every walk of life. From a pushy landlord, a quick-to-write-a-ticket traffic cop, and a slang-talking hobo. The Funny Guy is a cartoon in which every person—no matter what race, age, or religion—can appreciate and enjoy.
The Funny Man S Song Book Edited By J E Carpenter
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Author : Joseph Edwards Carpenter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1864
The Funny Man S Song Book Edited By J E Carpenter written by Joseph Edwards Carpenter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with categories.
The Funny Guy
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Author : Grace Allen Hogarth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
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Mantan The Funnyman
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Author : Michael H. Price
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Mantan The Funnyman written by Michael H. Price and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Performing Arts categories.
Mantan Moreland would become Louisiana s richest gift to the funnyman traditions of Old Hollywood. He would happily wield his charm and charisma as second banana in a slew of films of the 1930s and 40s. Moreland found his place in the spotlight, if not quite the sun, during the waxed-and-waning years of the Great God A mighty Depression as These United States lurched back toward prosperity via warfare. Thus situated, Moreland stood his ground for more than a decade before he found himself maneuvered toward a lower station in an upheaval of Cultural Correction. Mantan Moreland was one of Old Hollywood s most energetic comedians all due respect to the enshrined houses of Marx, Fields, Keaton and Chaplin. And Moreland s story, related in the most direct terms short of his own account, shows him to have been the most resilient, defiant and resurgent of that lot, as well. That is, within the limits imposed by the spirit of the times, a forgetful mass audience, and the disloyal marketplace itself. Hopefully Mantan the Funnyman will help Mantan Moreland find his well-deserved place in the sun.