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How to be a stand-up comic / Richard Belzer, Larry Charles, and Rick Newman.
- Text
- New York : Villard Books, 1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWET 88-4050 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The laugh-makers : stand-up comedy as art, business and life-style / Robert A. Stebbins.
- Text
- Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWEL (Canada) 90-8279 Offsite Jack Pearl papers, 1899-1973.
- Text
- 1899-1973
- 4 Items
Available Online
http://www.nypl.org/archives/4601Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-Mss 1985-001 Box 3 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-Mss 1985-001 Box 2 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *T-Mss 1985-001 Box 1 Offsite Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.
Stand-up comedy : the book / Judy Carter.
- Text
- New York, N.Y. : Dell Pub., c1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWET 92-6510 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Improv comedy / by Andy Goldberg ; foreword by John Ritter.
- Text
- Hollywood, CA : Samuel French, c1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWEQ 92-6969 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Andrew Dice Clay [sound recording].
- Audio
- Los Angeles, Calif. : Def American, p1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 2725 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Be a stand-up comic : (or just look like one) / by Bob Stobener and R. Scott Edwards ; illustrations by Bob Stobener.
- Text
- Sacramento, CA : Laughs Unlimited, c1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWEQ 93-2164 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Hope in Russia ; and One other place (University of Notre Dame) [sound recording].
- Audio
- New York : Decca, [1963?]
- 1963
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 3196 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
CMJ presents Certain damage!, volume 52 [sound recording].
- Audio
- Great Neck, N.Y. : CMJ, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 8256 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Punch lines : twenty years of Australian comedy / Richard Harris.
- Text
- Sydney, NSW : Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWGV (Australia) 95-10169 Offsite Women and laughter / Frances Gray.
- Text
- Houndmills, Basingstoke :bMacmillan, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 94-9517 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Clips from Weird Al Yankovic: the compleat Al / Imaginary Entertainment. Father Guido Sarducci goes to college : [excerpt] / [Showtime].
- Moving image
- [New York] : Movielab Video, c1985.
- 1985
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *LVH Cataloged Commercial video recordings Box 15 Offsite Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *LVH 235 [Notes] Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Careers in comedy / by Sharon Menzel-Gerrie.
- Text
- New York : Rosen Pub. Group, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWEQ 94-11439 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Successful stand-up comedy : advice from a comedy writer / Gene Perret.
- Text
- Hollywood, CA : S. French, 1994, c1993.
- 1994-1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWET 95-1744 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Jammin' in New York [sound recording] / George Carlin.
- Audio
- New York : Eardrum/Atlantic, p1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 5291 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Woody Allen, standup comic [sound recording].
- Audio
- Los Angeles, Calif. : Casablanca Record and Filmworks, p1978.
- 1979-1964
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 1987 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Ha bloody ha : comedians talking / William Cook.
- Text
- London : Fourth Estate, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWET 95-11735 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Avant-Garde-Arama sees the light [videorecording] / presented by P.S. 122.
- Moving image
- 1986.
- 1986
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *MGZIC 9-4524 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Not available - Please for assistance.Avant-Garde-Arama [videorecording] : the pride is back / presented by P.S. 122.
- Moving image
- 1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *MGZIC 9-4523 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Not available - Please for assistance.Wired [electronic resource] : a benefit for Performance Space 122.
- Moving image
- 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Resource
Available Online
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a3cce5c0-f79d-0130-50ae-3c075448cc4bRage and rehab [videorecording] / presented by Performance Space 122 ; [written and performed by] Reno.
- Moving image
- c1989.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *MGZIC 9-4560 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Not available - Please for assistance.Dress up! [videorecording] : P.S. 122's 10th anniversary benefit / presented by Performance Space 122.
- Moving image
- 1990.
- 1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *MGZIC 9-4636 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Not available - Please for assistance.Benefit 1991 [videorecording] / presented by Performance Space 122.
- Moving image
- 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *MGZIC 9-4732 Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Not available - Please for assistance.Father Guido Sarducci live at St. Douglas Convent [sound recording]
- Audio
- Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Records, p1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LSRX 7990 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
The Future of America [sound recording] / Pauly Shore.
- Audio
- Los Angeles, CA : WTG Records, p1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 5901 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Women and laughter / Frances Gray.
- Text
- Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWGT 96-6900 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
3 guys naked from the waist down [sound recording] : original cast recording / music by Michael Rupert ; book and lyrics by Jerry Colker.
- Audio
- New York, NY : Polydor, p1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 4173 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Meat Bob [sound recording] : live in concert / Bobcat Goldthwait.
- Audio
- New York : Chrysalis, p1988.
- 1988-1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 11194 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Stand-up comedians on television / [essays by Larry Gelbart ... et al. ; interview by George Plimpton ; curatorial essay by David Bushman].
- Text
- New York : Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 96-10147 Offsite Dice rules [sound recording] / Andrew Dice Clay.
- Audio
- Los Angeles, CA : Def American, p1991.
- 1991-1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 3703 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Stand up! : on being a comedian / Oliver Double.
- Text
- London : Methuen, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NCOM 97-13318 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Message in the hat [sound recording] / Eddie Griffin.
- Audio
- New York : Epic, p1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 15947 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Laughing in the dark : a decade of subversive comedy / Laurie Stone.
- Text
- Hopewell, N.J. : Ecco Press, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWET 97-10868 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Classic gold [sound recording] / George Carlin.
- Audio
- New York : Eardrum Records ; distributed by Atlantic, p1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 5236 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Queer corner [videorecording] : AIDS warrior and Smorgasbord / presented by Movement Coalition and Mactown Strip.
- Moving image
- 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *MGZIA 4-2755 cassette 7 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Queer corner [videorecording] : AIDS warrior [and] Smorgasbord / presented by Movement Coalition and Mactown Strip.
- Moving image
- 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image *MGZIA 4-2755 cassette 8 (G) Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Martin Lawrence live [sound recording] : talkin' shit.
- Audio
- New York, NY : Atlantic, p1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 7777 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Spaghetti sauce and other delights [sound recording] / Pat Cooper.
- Audio
- New York : United Artists, [1967?]
- 1967
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LZR 6853 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Kiwi jokers : the rise and rise of New Zealand comedy / Matt Elliott.
- Text
- Auckland, N.Z. : HarperCollins Publishers, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWET 00-2505 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Queens of comedy : Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers, and the new generation of funny women / Susan Horowitz.
- Text
- Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Gordon and Breach, c1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWER 99-2985 Offsite Zen and the art of stand-up comedy / Jay Sankey.
- Text
- New York : Routledge/Theatre Arts Books, c1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MWET 99-1658 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Richard Pryor live in concert / directed by Jeff Margolis.
- Moving image
- [Place of publication not identified] : MPI Home Video, ©1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-329 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Richard Pryor, here and now / written and directed by Richard Pryor.
- Moving image
- Burbank, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Pictures Home Video, 1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-330 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Bill Cosby "himself" / directed by William H. Cosby, Jr.
- Moving image
- [Beverly Hills, Calif.] : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment : Fox Video, [1996]
- 1996-1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-448 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Urban jam!.
- Moving image
- United States : EI Independent Productions : Bundy Productions, ©1998.
- 1998
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Moving image Sc Visual VRA-548 Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Scraps from the future [sound recording] / Pauly Shore.
- Audio
- New York, N.Y. : WTG/Epic, p1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 5727 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
"It could be a law, I don't know!" [sound recording] / James Gregory.
- Audio
- New York, NY : Epic, p1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LDC 6175 (F) Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
Lenny [sound recording] : original motion picture soundtrack.
- Audio
- Los Angeles, CA : United Artists Records, p1974.
- 1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Audio *LSRX 9498 Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
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