Results for: books tagged ‘Comedy’
101 Reykjavik: Hallgrimur Helgason
Hlynur Björn is an unemployed 30-something loner, still living with his mum, who spends his days on the Internet, watching satellite TV, and gazing at girls in the pub. But ... More
Annie Hall: Woody Allen
New York comedian Alvy Singer reflects ruefully upon a failed relationship. When he first met Annie Hall on a tennis date, she was an insecure wallflower in trousers, vest and ... More
The Apartment: I. A. L. Diamond
Billy Wilder won two Oscars - as co-screenwriter and director - for this mordant comedy about getting ahead in the corporate world. Jack Lemmon played the 'schnook' who lends out ... More
Charles Hawtrey 1914-1988: Roger Lewis
This is a small masterpiece of biographical investigation, and fitting testament to a comic genius whose place in British cultural history is now assured. Charles Hawtrey, the skinny one with ... More
Clerks & Chasing Amy: Kevin Smith
The screenplays to two films by one of the bright hopes of American independent film. Clerks is set in and about a convenience store in suburban New Jersey and revolves ... More
The Comedy Writer: Peter Farrelly
The Comedy Writer is a rude, raucous, straight-talking romp through the Hollywood Dream Factory from the co-creator of the hit movies Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary.Henry Holloran ... More
Communicating Doors: Alan Ayckbourn
How Ms Poopay Dayseer, a twenty-first century Specialist Sexual Consultant, whilst peddling her 'services' to an elderly hotel room client unexpectedly finds herself running for her life. How her flight ... More
The Complete Book of Mothers-in-Law: Luisa Dillner
Look beyond the stereotype and find mothers-in-law of many varieties; from loveable and loyal to lonely, ferocious and scheming. More
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg: Peter Nichols
'This remarkable play is about a nightmare all women must have dreamed at some time, and most men: living with a child born so helplessly crippled as to be, as ... More
Dinner: Moira Buffini
'It's my creation - like Frankenstein’s monster.'An artist, a scientist and a sexpot are coming to dinner. Paige, hostess extraordinaire, is celebrating the publication of her husband’s bestseller. The arrival ... More
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