The Comedy Code

Drawing from decades of experience performing, writing, teaching, improvising, producing, directing and casting comedy, Los Angeles based comedy guru Gunnar Rohrbacher has created a single book that links every kind of comedy/performance training into a sensible, industry standard plan of action. Whether you're a classically trained actor, musical theater performer,

Upper-class comedy—its rise, decline, and revival from The School for Scandal to the World War.

This book examines why there are so few conservative political satirists today and explores the consequences of this imbalance.

In The Art of Comedy Writing, Arthur Asa Berger argues that there are a relatively limited number of techniques - forty-five in all - that humorists employ. Elaborating upon his prior, in-depth study of humor, An Anatomy of Humor, in which Berger provides a content analysis of humor in all

Five years after the Ephialtes incident, two worlds teeter on the brink of the abyss. On Earth, civil unrest pushes the USAN towards a second strike at Mars. On Mars, divided loyalties threaten the entire independence project. A shocking act of violence triggers a desperate scramble for supremacy. Pressure is