Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #580537 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Synopsis
The Friars Club is New York's equivalent of London's Comedy Store:- a melting pot of live stand up comedy where the skills and ideas of comedians and comic actors are forged by the fire of public trial. No one knows more about being funny than the Friars Club, and now for the first time, the world's funniest comedians who performed there reveal their personal tricks of the trade - and give away their favourite material - in this easy-to-use manual for aspiring comics and comedy writers. In this book, the funniest performers in American show business discuss the art of being funny: Rita Rudner; Phyllis Diller; Lily Tomlin; Jerry Stiller (from Seinfeld); playwright Neil Simon; actor Red Buttons; Richard Pryor; Freddie Roman; Richard Belzer; Ryan Stiles (from Whose Line Is It Anyway?); David Brenner