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DeWitt, Tarah Henry, Katie Ho, Lauren Holmes, Pete Landvik, Lorna Levine, Laura Shook, CatSummary: A fast-paced, absurd collection of short films, parodies, animations, pranks, and musical numbers. Attempts to shock life back into the art of sketch comedy. Has grotesquely memorable characters and crude animation bits all wrapped up neatly. The apparent slipshod manner of each episode may or may not be part of the skit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TIMSummary: Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas stand-up comedy diva, needs to maintain relevance: the head of the casino where she performs wants to pare down her performance dates. Ava is a Gen Z comedy writer who is unable to find work due to being fired from her job over an insensitive tweet. The two reluctantly team up to freshen up Deborah's material and learn to respect each other's differences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HACSummary: Aspiring stand-up comedian Will is forced to face the realities of relentless hecklers, drunk comedy groupies and hard-to-impress morning radio DJs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Enterainment 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OPESummary: Fresh off of his two-month college comedy tour, Pete returns to New York City with newfound confidence in his comedic abilities. While growing more assured, he continues to struggle over what he really wants out of comedy and how to find a happy balance between his old, faith-based self and the new, more ambitious comic he's becoming.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRAShook, Cat
Summary: "Presley Fry is not amused. She's been an assistant at the Late Night Show for way too long, she's adopted a "business casual" approach to dating to save herself from the embarrassment of seeking genuine connection, and she's content to allow her gregarious roommate, Isabelle, to orchestrate her entire social life. And yet, Presley is absolutely enamored with her job and the world of stand-up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Explores the struggles of 'making it big' in the 1970's L.A. comedy scene. Every night, a group of young, up-and-coming comedians waits their turn to perform at Goldie's, the hottest stand-up club in Hollywood. But first they'll have to win over club owner Goldie, who rules the Sunset Strip with an iron fist. For them, stand-up is a drug and they're willing to sacrifice everything to get their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV IMHo, Lauren
Summary: A career-ending injury destroys track star Agnes Chan's hopes of a college scholarship, putting her on a journey through the underbelly of Malaysian stand-up comedy, and directly into the path of her archnemesis, the ridiculously wealthy and disgustingly handsome Royce Taslim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HOSummary: The road to fame is filled with setbacks, personal demons, and failure, but for those who keep going, the journey is worth it. Oscar-winner Melissa Leo and Ari Graynor star in this character-driven drama series about a group of ambitious up-and-comers struggling to find success in Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV I'MSummary: Amy Schumer explores sex, relationships, and more with sketches, stand-up comedy, and woman-on-the-street interviews. Includes all twenty episodes from the show's first two seasons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INSSummary: Follows the everyday trials of single dad Louie as he struggles to raise his kids, advance his career, and somehow get some action in the meantime. Facing one bummer after another, Louie takes on inattentive crowds, insane relatives, and a hair-raising U.S.O. tour of Afghanistan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LOUSummary: George is a very successful stand-up comedian who learns that he has less than a year to live. Ira, who is a struggling up-and-coming comedian works at a deli. One night the two perform at the same club, and George decides to make Ira his best friend. This lopsided relationship gradually takes on aspects of true friendship as Ira forces George to try to reconnect with the people in his life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FUNHenry, Katie
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Izzy, has stumbled across her dream of doing stand-up comedy, but hiding it from family and friends is causing her many untruths to quickly unravel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC HENHolmes, Pete
Summary: After his wife cheats on him, an aspiring comedian moves to New York City for a new start.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CRADeWitt, Tarah
Summary: "When falling in love is the punchline... Farley Jones is a loud, chaotic, and hilariously clever standup comedian on the way to stardom. The only thing she loves more than the rush of telling jokes in front of a revved-up audience is her hot older manager Meyer, though he doesn't have a clue. Keeping her feelings hidden from him is agony (a tragedy, even--in lieu of flowers, please send...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEWLandvik, Lorna
Summary: "No one steps up to life's banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, "Grief, please!" Yet as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. But every buffet line has a dessert section, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It's good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LANLevine, Laura
Summary: Agreeing to write jokes for Dorcas, a struggling stand-up comic, Jaine Austen discovers that murder is the punchline when Dorcas's rival, a heckler named Vic, is strangled with one of her props--a pair of pantyhose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Books 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LEVSummary: Inspired by Jim Gaffigan's real life, It explores one man's struggle to find balance between fatherhood, stand-up comedy and an insatiable appetite.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016