Sitcom Comedy

Beelzebub, the prince of demons, is bored. It's his destiny to one day rule the dark underworld known as the Red Realm, but it's sooo boring down there. All he wants to do is lay around all day in the lava pits (ahhh), boss everyone around (rude!), and maybe play a cruel prank (or two). But Beelzebub's father has had it with his son's nasty attitude. No one backtalks the Red King. NO ONE. A disgraced Beelzebub is banished by his father and cursed to spend his days in the worst place either of them can imagine. EARTH.

In 20 years of show business, Lucille Ball had only modest and sporadic success. Her TV program, I Love Lucy, was her last chance to fulfill the ambition that had sustained her through the frustrations of her professional life and the anguish of a failing marriage. The role of Lucy Ricardo revealed her true gifts, but it changed her life immeasurably. This definitive portrait of Lucille Ball is based on the recollections of fellow performers, her closest friends and family, and Lucille herself.

Desperate to escape their high-pressure life in Los Angeles, the Finch family moves to rural Oregon. But it doesn’t take long to learn that “small town” is not code for “stress-free.” As the new owners of Applegate's one and only general store, the Finches find that the simple life’s anything but simple when your little store is the town's only grocery store, gas station, hardware store, fire station, and occasional dentist’s office.

They’re back! The all-star cast multi-award-winning cult hit comedy returns, with more surreal goings-on in the lives and loves of the doctors and staff at East Hampton Hospital (warning: contains very little medical content).

This laugh-out-loud memoir takes listeners backstage and inside the writers' room of one of America's best-loved shows. With more than 17 million viewers and more than seventy Emmy nominations — including two wins for best comedy — Everybody Loves Raymond reigned supreme in television comedy for almost a decade. Phil Rosenthal was there at the beginning. United by a shared lifetime of family dysfunction, he and Ray Romano found endless material to keep the show fresh and funny for its entire run.

Over eleven seasons and eighty-four episodes, Jerry Seinfeld drove around in classic cars, grabbing coffee and chatting with the funniest people alive. The result was not only a hilarious collection of casual yet intimate conversations but arguably the most important historical archive about the art of comedy ever amassed. Now that archive is preserved in the form of a carefully curated audiobook collection of excerpts from the show. Seinfeld has handpicked the show’s keenest insights and funniest exchanges.

From flamboyant relatives on Bewitched to closely-guarded secrets on All in the Family, from network-censor fights over Soap to behind-the-scenes activism on the set of The Golden Girls, from Ellen’s culture clash to Modern Family’s primetime power-couple, Hi Honey, I’m Homo! is the story not only of how subversive queer comedy transformed the American sitcom, from its inception through today, but how our favorite sitcoms transformed, and continue to transform, America.

That stammer. Those basset-hound eyes. That bone-dry wit. There has never been another comedian like Bob Newhart. In this, his first audiobook ever, Newhart gives his brilliant and bemused twist on a multitude of topics, including flying, the trials of a family holiday in a Winnebago, and more serious subjects, such as golf. And, of course, there are side-splittingly funny stories from his life and career. Who else has a drinking game named after him? ("Hi, Bob!")

Laughter is the best medicine and this comedy has the right dose. Joyce’s cooking is so bad that her husband and kids want to cut off their tongues to save themselves for the taste of her food. Joyce's husband, Gary, loves his football team more than he loves her. But they are not an entirely unhappy couple. They have five children. Twenty-one-year-old Fred, their eldest child, is a loafer who believes he will soon be a millionaire. He spends most of his time chasing his elusive dream. A gourmand, he is the only member of the family who enjoys Joyce’s cooking. Nineteen-year-old Nyasha ...

Irene Bruce spends her days pulling pints in Millport, the only town on the Isle of Cumbrae, a few miles off the west coast of Scotland. Frustrated and going nowhere fast, she yearns to escape to the mainland for a better life - or at least a bit of fun. Just over the water, there are clubs, cinemas and discos, so why is she stuck at home with tea, Scrabble and her boring sister Moira?

Meet Tracey and her sister Carol, heading off for a Team Building day with their employer, the Co-op. They are shelf stockers and along with five other stores are meeting to have a day of events. Friendships are formed, while undertaking blindfolded four wheel driving, go-karting and other activities that Tracey and Carol throw themselves into. It is a comedy, or a farce to be exact and the events that unfold may seem ludicrously improbable, but some of this story is based on real events. You really couldn't make it up. It is my first comedy, I hope you like it. Morton

"Brilliantly written, fresh and extremely funny..." ‘Unmade Classics’ features my sitcom scripts for ‘Falling Stars’ and ‘New Ageing’. Both comedies were optioned by production companies in the 2010s, but ultimately shunned like a wheezy child with a large booger. Hope remains they’ll make it onto the stage and screen one day, until then I’m proud to present my ‘unmade classics’ in this entertaining book. Falling Stars Two expiring celebrities struggle to keep up their media profile amid a wave of fresher faces crashing onto the scene. New Ageing Lifelong hippie Jim ...

¿Y si el trabajo de tus sueños viniera con trampa, un jefe con la palabra «peligro» escrita en dirección al sur y tú con cero posibilidades de cumplir sus reglas? No es una hipótesis, es mi día a día. Y empieza con tres recomendaciones que nadie en House of Carter se molestó en mencionar antes de que firmara el contrato: No mientas al jefe. Lleva a tu familia a las comidas de empresa. Nunca, jamás, contrates a una actriz para hacer de tu madre.He roto las tres. Ahora tengo dos opciones: callarme y convertirme en la nueva promesa del diseño de lencería fina… o decir la verdad ...

In Black Out Loud, Bennett chronicles the transformative history of Black comedy in America, drawing on research and interviews with the actors and executives behind some of the most impactful shows. This brilliant exploration traces the evolution of Black comics and provocateurs who reshaped the culture and ultimately became powerful agents of social change -- transforming the way America laughed along the way.

The groundbreaking inside look at the making — and unmaking — of a network TV series, back in print for the first time in thirty years. Smoldering Lust seemed like a sure-fire hit for NBC – a sexy new comedy-drama starring Kate Capshaw from Jay Tarses, the acclaimed, Emmy-awarding winning writer/producer of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Buffalo Bill and The Bob Newhart Show. But things started to go wrong from the start and author Vance Muse was there to witness it all, from the development, casting, and production of the show all the way to the disastrous test screening, the ...

'Sharon Singh lives over the corner shop. Accountant by day, but at night she visits the magic wardrobe in her bedroom to do vodka shots with her sister. Fully equipped with disco ball, and a Sikh barman, the girls dance to forget their traditional lives.' The series continues with Shaz and Mother visiting Kirsty in Sydney. Meanwhile in the UK, Trace and her Aunt Sheila are stuck in the magical wardrobe waiting for the 'Beast from the East' to pass. Mr & Mrs Singh continue to run the corner shop, listen to their complaining customers and pray that by some miracle the girls land suitable ...

For fans of the series, splash on some blue eyeshadow and back-comb your hair ..the Singh sisters are back! When will the UK government open the pubs and will Christmas be cancelled? It's September 2020 and the Singh sisters are back at work with the super spreaders. Can Bachittar and his new cocktail book bring some excitement to the lives of the young Accountants ? Will Mother finally see one of her daughters happily married? What is Sheryl, the ex-caravan dweller keeping from the others? Now married to the only decent bloke on the block, but why is Sheryl secretly visiting 'The Gods of ...

This is a very short comedy that I will keep on here free of charge. Hopefully you will but Team Building, if you like it, as it is the same series. This tale is of two sisters and their work colleagues, managing a long Easter shift alone. Despite various challenges along the way, it all ends well for them. Morton

In the Sixties there emerged a cycle towards rural situation comedies on American network television. These were comedies set in either small towns or the country, or featured characters from rural areas. Some of them would rank among the most successful television shows of all time. Country Comedies is a brief look at the many rural sitcoms that aired in the Sixties.

Step into a tropical paradise turned haunting purgatory with Ghosts of the S.S. Minnow by Ziare Waverly III. When a storm sinks the S.S. Minnow in 1964, seven castaways—glamorous Ginger Grant, sweet Mary Ann Summers, gruff Skipper Jonas Grumby, brainy Professor Roy Hinkley, posh Thurston and Lovey Howell, and klutzy Gilligan—find themselves stranded on an uncharted island. Their days brim with zany mishaps and failed rescues, but a mysterious interviewer uncovers a chilling truth beneath the laughs. Through candid confessions, Ginger reveals her Hollywood heartbreaks, Mary Ann her ...