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  • Negro dialect recitations : comprising a series of the most popular selections in prose and verse / edited by George M. Baker.

    • Text
    • [Boston : Lee and Shepard], 1887.
    • 1887
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare C 83-60Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • Wehman Bros.' popular comic, dramatic, and dialect recitations [microform]. : no. 3.

    • Text
    • New York : Wehman Bros., [190-?]
    • 1900-1909
  • Alleweil höhauf. Ein heiteres Vortragsbuch in vogtländischer Mundart. (Illus. Heiner Vogel.)

    • Text
    • Leipzig, Hofmeister (1967).
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 72-872Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Alleweil höfauf. Ein heiteres Vortragsbuch in vogtländischer Mundart. (Illus. Heiner Vogel.)

    • Text
    • Leipzig, Hofmeister [1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 73-1527Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Original-Couplets und Vorträge. Text-Ausgabe. Mit einem Vorwort des Verfassers.

    • Text
    • Leipzig, O. Teich [1904-07]
    • 1904-1907
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *MP (German) (Reutter, O. Original-Couplets und Vortrage)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Humorous monologues. Illustrated by Doug Anderson.

    • Text
    • New York, Sterling Pub. Co. [1955]
    • 1955
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 75-1616Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Veselyĭ deklamator-rasskazchik. Sostavil B. Fuks.

    • Text
    • [Odessa] Izd. avtora-sostavitel︠i︡a, 1928.
    • 1928
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZQ-513 24 titlesOffsite
  • Närrische Reden für die Bütt.

    • Text
    • Darmstadt, Bergwald-Verlag.
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFK 76-200 v. 3Offsite
  • Christy's new songster and black joker : containing all the most popular and original songs, choruses, stump speeches, witticisms, jokes, conundrums, etc., etc., as sung and delivered by the world-renowned Christy's Minstrels at their opera houses / compiled and arranged by E. Byron Christy and William E. Christy, successors to the late Edwin P. Christy.

    • Text
    • New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1863]
    • 1868
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Mus. Res. *MPW-Amer. (Christy and Christy. Christy's new songster and black joker)Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare B 77-1Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • French's funny recitals; a collection of new and humorous recitations.

    • Text
    • London, New York, 1909.
    • 1909
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFK 77-205 Pt. 3Offsite
  • Good humor for reading and recitation.

    • Text
    • Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1970]
    • 1970-1893
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 78-2303Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Fais-nous rire Fernand : les derniers sketches écrits pour Fernand Raynaud / par Armand Isnard.

    • Text
    • Paris : Buchet/Chastel, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 78-4631Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Il cantante celebre; macchietta brillante di A. Beltrami e M. Mondo.[Op. 247]

    • Notated music
    • Bergamo, Casa musicale edizioni Carrara, 1932.
    • 1932
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Music (Sheet) 78-293Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • Il Dottor Tartaglia; macchietta buffa di Angelo Beltrami per la musica del Cav. Michele Mondo.

    • Notated music
    • Bergamo, Casa musicale edizioni Carrara, 1932.
    • 1932
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Music (Sheet) 78-288Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • I ciabattini, Crispino e Crispetto; scenetta comicissima in prosa e canto su parole di Angelo Beltrami.[Op. 504]

    • Notated music
    • Bergamo, Casa editrice V. Carrara, 1933.
    • 1933
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music Music (Sheet) 78-284Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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  • America is 200 years old ... and there's still Hope! [Sound recording]

    • Audio
    • Capitol ST-11538. p1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 5599Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • It's true! it's true! [Sound recording]

    • Audio
    • Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records WS 1770. [1969]
    • 1969
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 6869Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • And that's the truth [sound recording] / Lily Tomlin.

    • Audio
    • New York : Polydor, p1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 8619Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The original and only Johnnie Prindle songster / containing the words & music of, all the original songs as sung by Johnnie Prindle.

    • Notated music
    • [New York : N. Straight, 187-?]
    • 1870-1879
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JPB 77-24Offsite

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  • A night at the Met [sound recording] / Robin Williams.

    • Audio
    • N.Y. N.Y. : Columbia, p1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 1945Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Playin' with your head [sound recording] / George Carlin.

    • Audio
    • [S.l.] : Eardrum Records ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Atlantic Recording Corp., p1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LTC 2470Offsite
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  • Negro dialect recitations : comprising a series of the most popular selections in prose and verse / edited by George M. Baker.

    • Text
    • Boston : W. H. Baker, 1887.
    • 1887
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc 808.8-B (Baker, G. Negro dialect ...)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Conversations: cries, croaks, and calls / by Robert Tallon.

    • Text
    • New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1963].
    • 1963-1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text F-10 8990Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Barton's comic recitations and humorous dialogues : designed for school commencements and amateur theatricals / edited by Jerome Barton.

    • Text
    • New York : Fitzgerald, 1871.
    • 1871
    • 1 Item

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    Text NACG BC (Barton, J. Barton's comic recitations)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Comic speeches and recitations; designed for schools, and literary and social circles.

    • Text
    • New York, Dick, 1878.
    • 1878
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NACG MCS (McBride, H. E. Comic speeches and recitations)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Comic recitations and readings : being a complete assortment of comic, humorous and dialect recitations, suitable for delivery at all times and on all occasions, including all of the late and popular efforts of the world's greatest humorists and entertainers / compiled by Charles Walter Brown.

    • Text
    • Chicago : F.J. Drake, c1902.
    • 1902
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NANV (Brown, C. W. Comic recitations and readings)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Humorous stories & recitations : a book full of humour, funny stories, laughter-provoking recitations : standard favourites and modern copyright numbers.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : W. Foulsham, [1953]
    • 1953
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NANV (Humorous stories & recitations)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • New book of dialogues : being an entirely new and original series of humorous dialogues, designed for performance at school anniversaries and exhibitions / by S. A. Frost.

    • Text
    • New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, 1872.
    • 1872
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NACG FND (Shields, S. A. F. New book of dialogues)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The reciter's album, or, Actor's utility book : being a collection of recitations, droll & quaint stories, funny tales, selections from popular acting dramas, and many entirely new broad burlesque parodies to be had in no other work / collected and arranged by a Gentleman of the Theatres Royal.

    • Text
    • London : Printed & published by H.A. Arliss ..., 1832.
    • 1832
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NANV (Reciter's album)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Elmo's humorous speaker.

    • Text
    • Chicago, Belford-Clarke Co., 1890.
    • 1890
    • 1 Item

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    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433066585393
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    Text NANS (Handford, T. W. Elmo's humorous speaker)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The Humorous speaker : being a choice collection of amusing pieces, both in prose and verse, original and selected, consisting of dialogues, soliloquies, parodies, &c., designed for the use of schools, literary societies, debating clubs, social circles and domestic entertainment / [compiled] by Oliver Oldham.

    • Text
    • New York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, c1853.
    • 1853
    • 1 Item

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    http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082534037
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    Text NANV (Oldham, O. Humorous speaker)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The theatrical olio, or, Actor's ways and means : being an excellent collection of comic tales, new songs, &c. : containing those now singing at the Theatres Royal, Sadler's Wells ... with sketches from Mathew's Mail coach adventures as delivered by him at the English Opera House ... / embellished with an elegantly engraved likeness of Mr. Mathews.

    • Text
    • [London] : Published by Duncombe ... , [ca. 1820]
    • 1820
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NDE (Theatrical olio)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Carnevals-Blüthen. : Humoristische Vorträge und Lieder / von Richard Weinacht. ; Mit einem Anhang, enthaltend siebzehn der beliebtesten Carnevals-Melodien.

    • Text
    • New York : Druck und Verlag von Hermann Bartsch ..., 1886.
    • 1886
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NFY (Weinacht, R. Carnevals-Bluthen)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • This is a recording [sound recording] / Lily Tomlin.

    • Audio
    • New York, N.Y. : Polydor, [c1971]
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LSRX 8621Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The First Anna Russell farewell special [videorecording] / Maryland Public Television ; produced and directed by Phillip Byrd.

    • Moving image
    • Fort Lee, NJ : Video Artists International, c1985.
    • 1985-1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image *LVH 773 (F) Container on filePerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound
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  • Tout Deschamps : trente ans de monologues et de chansons / Yvon Deschamps.

    • Text
    • Outremont, Québec : Lanctôt ; [Montréal, Québec] : Ecole nationale de l'humour, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 99-2665Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • New Irish joke book : comprising a selected collection of the best and latest Irish jokes, anecdotes, funny sayings, stories, monologues, etc. / edited by Irv. Ott.

    • Text
    • Baltimore, Md. : I. & M. Ottenheimer, c1907.
    • 1907
    • 2 Items
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    Text 9-NND (Marinetti. Mots en liberté futuristes. 1919)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Text NAC p.v. 523 no. 1-4Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Olmstead's humorous recitations : a choice collection of the most humorous compositions, which have, everywhere, given universal satisifaction... / compiled by Seymour Olmstead.

    • Text
    • Albion, N.Y. : A.M. Eddy. 1894.
    • 1894
    • 1 Item
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    Text NAC p.v. 182 no. 1-6Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Marie-Lise Pilote, attention, méchante! : textes choisis / Chantal Beaupré ... [et al.].

    • Text
    • Montréal : Stanké, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 99-13151Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The Art of the monologue [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Sparrows Green, Wadhurst, E. Sussex, England : Pearl, p1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LDC 13934 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The button-down mind strikes back [sound recording] / Bob Newhart.

    • Audio
    • [Calif.?] : Warner Bros., c1960.
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 449Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Cal Stewart as Uncle Josh [sound recording]

    • Audio
    • Anaheim, Calif : Mark 56 Records, p1978.
    • 1978-1910
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LRX 7273Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • First words [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Mill Valley, CA : Gang of Seven, p1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *BGC-576 [Sound cassesste]Offsite
  • Bomb the womb [sound recording] / Hugh Brown Shü.

    • Audio
    • Larkspur, Calif : Gang of Seven, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *BGC-583 [Sound cassette]Offsite
  • Comedy hits [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • [Hollywood, Calif.] : Capitol, [1963]
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 15552 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The best of Peter Sellers [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York : Angel Records, [1960]
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 9984 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Hope in Russia [sound recording] : And one other place / Bob Hope.

    • Audio
    • New York : Decca, [1963]
    • 1963
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 20699 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Audio *LZR 20699 [Notes]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • "Lonesome George" Gobel in person "At The Sands" [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • New York : Decca, [1961]
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 20689 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Heavy [sound recording] / all material written by Victor Buono.

    • Audio
    • Hollywood, Calif. : Doré, 1971.
    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 21949 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • Near perfect/perfect [sound recording].

    • Audio
    • Los Angeles, Calif. : Elektra, p1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Audio *LZR 23673 [Disc]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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