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English
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"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Presents a history of humor, from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter memes, that tells the story of how comedy came to rule the modern world.
"For millennia of human history, the future belonged to the strong. To the parent who could kill the most animals with sticks and to the child who could survive the winter or the epidemic. When the Industrial Revolution came, masters of business efficiency prospered instead,...
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Series
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English
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Since its publication fifty years ago, Animal Farm has become one of the most controversial books ever written. It has been translated into seventy languages and sold millions of copies throughout the world. This edition is being published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its original U.S. publication. It features 100 full-color and halftone illustrations by world-renowned artist Ralph Steadman. As vital and relevant as it was fifty years...
5) The farewell
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai-Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, ©1987-1997
Language
English
Description
"George's Best Stuff" is a compilation of some of Carlin's legendary routines, including "A Place For My Stuff," "Dogs and Cats," "Baseball and Football," "Losing Things," "Al Sleet the Hippy-Dippy Weather Man," the notorious "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television," and many more. A great collection of some of the best standup comedy ever performed.
7) Chick fight
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more personally connected to the history of the club than she could ever imagine.
9) Severance
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routine. With the recent passing of her Chinese immigrant parents, shes had her fill of uncertainty. Shes content just to carry on: She goes to work, troubleshoots the teen-targeted Gemstone Bible, watches movies in a Greenpoint basement with her boyfriend. So Candace barely notices when a plague of biblical proportions sweeps New York. Then Shen Fever spreads....
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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New York City architect Natalie works hard to get noticed at her job but is more likely to be asked to deliver coffee and bagels than to design the city's next skyscraper. And if things weren't bad enough, Natalie, a lifelong cynic when it comes to love, has an encounter with a mugger that renders her unconscious, waking to discover that her life has suddenly become her worst nightmare, a romantic comedy, and she is the leading lady.
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The incredible true story of aspiring filmmaker and Hollywood outsider Tommy Wiseau (James Franco) as he and his best friend Greg (Dave Franco) defiantly pursue their dreams and embark on the hilarious odyssey of making the now-infamous cult classic *The Room*. **Oscar** nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. **Golden Globe** winner for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. Nominated for Best Male Lead at the **Film...
12) The opening act
Publisher
RLJ Enterainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Aspiring stand-up comedian Will is forced to face the realities of relentless hecklers, drunk comedy groupies and hard-to-impress morning radio DJs.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In small-town Alabama, Zeke & Earl scramble to cover up the unlikely (and, in most states, highly illegal) events that led to their friend's death, as they try to dodge their families, the cops, and one horrified medical examiner. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **San Francisco International Film Festival**.
14) Here today
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz meets New York singer Emma Payge, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Adult language and situations.
Fluffy's back and he's brought his friends. Yes, Gabriel Iglesias is back with a new hit Comedy Central show. Join Iglesias as he introduces viewers to eighteen of the funniest comedians today. Includes all seven extended episodes featuring all new material from Gabe, as well as hilarious bonus footage, two music videos, and more. Get ready to laugh your head off!
16) Military wives
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
MILITARY WIVES centers on a group of women from different backgrounds whose partners are away serving in combat. Faced with their loved ones’ absences, they come together to form the very first military wives choir, helping each other through some of life’s most difficult moments, and quickly find themselves on an international stage. Peter Cattaneo (THE FULL MONTY) directs Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan in this feel-good crowd-pleaser...
17) My ex-life
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"David Hedges is having an unusual midlife crisis. His boyfriend, Soren, has left him for an older man. His job is exasperating. As his life reaches new lows, his weight reaches new highs. Across the country, Julie Fiske isn't having a much better time herself. Carol, the woman (younger, of course) that Henry, her second husband, left her for, is downright likable--more likeable than Henry was. Her sullen teen daughter adamantly refuses to apply to...
Author
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
RITA Award winner Melody Carlson's sassy tale highlights the healing influence of family, friends, faith-and unexpected love-on a 31-year-old single gal who's down but not out. The day she dons her Valentino boots, Cassidy's life starts spinning out of control. Her boss fires her, her boyfriend dumps her, and someone steals her identity. And binging on chocolate doesn't help.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other...
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