Posts Tagged ‘stand up comedy’

How to Be a Working Comic: An Insider’s Guide to a Career in Stand-Up Comedy

From Library Journal

Schwensen, former talent coordinator for A&E’s An Evening at the Improv, reminds us that comedy is a business and provides specific and useful advice on basic issues such as headshots, resumes, and agents. While Schwensen sensibly advises novices to be original and to work steadily at stage time, Jay Sankey’s Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy (LJ 5/1/98) offers much more on the craft of performance. Nearly half of this book is devoted to brief interviews with 12 top comedians (e.g., Drew Carey, Rhonda Shear, and Rene Hicks). While Jeff Dunham observes that “comedy has taken such a nose-dive,” Schwensen does not otherwise acknowledge that comedians face a shrinking stand-up industry. For strong performing arts collections.?Norman Oder, “Library Journal”Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

This truly funny book about being funny is also a serious guide to the business of laughter and how to make it pay off. New Yor… Read more…

Latham Entertainment – All New Comedy

From the Back Cover
It’s funny in here…That’s right, the producer who brought you “The Original Kings of Comedy” and “The Queens of Comedy” has done it again…”Latham Entertainment Presents…is an all new, in your face, stand-up comedy experience. Featuring some of today’s hottest urban comics: Hosted by D. L. Hughley (“The Original Kings of Comedy,” “The Hughleys”), Sommore (“The Queens of Comedy”), Bruce Bruce, “The Wash,” “BET’s Comic View”), J. Anthony Brown (“Living Single,” “How to Be a Player”), Earthquake (“Def Comedy Jam”), and the hilarious Rickey Smiley (“Friday After Next,” Host of “Comic View 2000″). Nothing’s off limits to these six comics…it’s raw, uncensored, live stand-up that’s laugh-out-loud funny!

With routines from some of today?s hottest comedians, LATHAM ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS delivers Earthquake, an explosive performer whose ability to engage an audience with his straight-ahead humor has been heralded by critics; Bruce Bruce, who is b… Read more…