Comedy Criticism

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    • The Comedy of Existence
    • By: Lee Siegel
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • Born Julius Marx in 1890, the brilliant comic actor who would later be known as Groucho was the most verbal of the famed comedy team the Marx Brothers....

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    • The Karate Kid and Me
    • By: Ralph Macchio
    • Narrated by: Ralph Macchio
    • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 948 ratings
    • Since The Karate Kid first crane-kicked its way into the pop culture stratosphere in June 1984, there hasn’t been a week Ralph Macchio hasn’t heard friendly shouts of “Wax on, wax off” or “Sweep the leg”....

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    • The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story
    • By: Chris Nashawaty
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 7 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 561 ratings
    • Caddyshack is one of the most beloved comedies of all time, but the movie we all know and love didn't start out that way, and everyone who made it certainly didn't have the word classic in mind as the cameras were rolling....

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    • Learning About Life From an Addiction to Film
    • By: Patton Oswalt
    • Narrated by: Patton Oswalt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,423 ratings
    • Patton Oswalt shares his entertaining memoir about coming of age as a performer and writer in the late '90s while obsessively watching classic films....

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    • The Inside Story of the Shock-Com That Launched FOX and Changed TV Comedy Forever
    • By: Richard Gurman
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Married . . . With Children writer-producer Richard Gurman takes us behind the scenes of this boundary-breaking show to reveal how its inner workings were at times as disruptive and contentious—yet at other times, as hysterical and raunchy—as the Bundy family themselves.

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    • A Novel
    • By: Simon Rich
    • Narrated by: Simon Rich
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 327 ratings
    • Welcome to Heaven, Inc., the grossly mismanaged corporation in the sky....

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    • The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy
    • By: Scott Meslow
    • Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • An in-depth celebration of the romantic comedy’s modern golden era and its role in our culture, tracking the genre from its heyday in the ’80s and the ’90s, its unfortunate decline in the 2000s, and its explosive reemergence in the age of streaming....

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    • The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We're Still So Obsessed with It)
    • By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
    • Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of the most iconic teen comedies of all time, Mean Girls, revealing how it happened, how it defined a generation, “like, invented” meme culture, and why it just won’t go away....

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    • The Roots of Comedy: The Double Life of Laurel and Hardy
    • By: Simon Louvish
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 17 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • In this audiobook, Simon Louvish traces the early lives of Stanley Jefferson and Norvell Hardy and the surrounding minstrel and variety theater, which influenced all of their later work....

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    • A Guide to Dante's Divine Comedy
    • By: Peter Leithart
    • Narrated by: Joffre Swait
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-25-24
    • Language: English
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    • As one of the supreme Christian epic poems, Dante's Divine Comedy provides not only far more personality and emotional depth than the pagan epics, it also opens up all the issues on which Western history turns truth, beauty, goodness, sin, sanctification, and triumph.

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    • The Birth of Second City: America's Greatest Comedy Theater
    • By: Jeffrey Sweet
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
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    • Discover the behind-the-scenes story of how The Second City theater created a generation of world class great actors, directors, and writers....

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    • A Low-Key Guide to the High-Strung World of Classical Music
    • By: Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch
    • Narrated by: Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Arianna Warsaw-Fan Rauch’s life-long fascination with classical music has taken her through Juilliard and into the shiny world of symphony halls and international concert tours. She’s loved classical music her whole life. But she’s also hated classical music her whole life....

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    • Mort Sahl and the Birth of Modern Comedy
    • By: James Curtis
    • Narrated by: Mark Milroy
    • Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a new generation of smart comics emerged - Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Lenny Bruce....

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    • an Enemies to Lovers Mafia Romance
    • By: Eros Bramante
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-25
    • Language: English
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    • A story between passion and devotion for the family. The choice between a beautiful woman and the respect for your father. Mario is well-positioned...

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