In addition, the story partly concerns the discovery of Aristotle's book on Comedy, which is in fact a lost book.

This version is included in the book and CD set The Best British Stand-Up and Comedy Routines, along with a transcript of the sketch and the Four Yorkshiremen sketch.

M. Leigh has devoted an extensive chapter about Plautus and Hannibal in his recent book, Comedy and the Rise of Rome.

In Moe's autobiography, he said they each got $ 600 per week on a one-year contract with a renewable option ; in the Ted Okuda – Edward Watz book The Columbia Comedy Shorts, the Stooges are said to have received $ 1, 000 among them for their first Columbia effort, Woman Haters, and then signed a term contract for $ 7, 500 per film ( equal to $ today ), to be divided among the trio.

The Ted Okuda / Edward Watz-penned book The Columbia Comedy Shorts puts the Stooges legacy in critical perspective:

The title is a reference to the biblical Book of Job and James Branch Cabell's book Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice.

* The title of the Divine Comedy album Victory For The Comic Muse is taken from a line in the book.

In January 2005, the Washington National Opera premiered Democracy: An American Comedy, an opera by Scott Wheeler and Romulus Linney based upon Henry Adams ' book.

It is a concept album based on Dante's The Divine Comedy, a book that Green read in high school and suggested to the band for the concept for the album.

Robert A. Heinlein used Cabell's version in his book Job: A Comedy of Justice.

He wrote the play Timing ( nominated as Best New Comedy at the whatsonstage. com awards ) and the book A Matter of Life and Death or How to Wean Your Man off Football with former comedy partner Ronni Ancona.

There is also an original cast recording released in 2004 by Comedy Central, and a book.

Onstad has published several books: nine anthologies of Achewood comics ; a humorous cookbook featuring recipes purportedly invented by the strip's characters ; A Wonderful Tale, a book written from the perspective of a character from the strip ; and that same character's second novel A Hilarious Comedy.

Because Martín Fierro has been widely considered ( beginning with Leopoldo Lugones's El Payador, 1916 ) the fountainhead or pinnacle of Argentine literature, Argentina's Don Quixote or Divine Comedy, and because Borges was certainly Argentina's greatest twentieth-century writer, Borges's 1953 book of essays about the poem and its critical and popular reception-El " Martín Fierro " ( written with Margarita Guerrero )-gives insight into Borges's identity as an Argentine.

Borges sees Lugones in El Payador ( 1916 ) as operating in an explicitly nationalist tradition, seeking a national epic to take the role of Don Quixote or the Divine Comedy and render the Argentines a " people of the book ", in a nationalist reflection of religious identity.

The subtitle appears to be a bow to James Branch Cabell's 1919 novel Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice — a writer and book that Heinlein claimed had influenced him.

With Wodehouse, Bolton wrote the semi-autobiographical book Bring on the Girls !, subtitled, " The Improbable Story of Our Life in Musical Comedy " ( 1954 ).

Years later, Reid and Dreesen co-wrote a book about those years called Tim & Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White ( ISBN 978-0-226-70900-0, co-written with sports writer Ron Rapoport ).

In a 2004 episode of the Comedy Central animated series Drawn Together, " Clara's Dirty Little Secret ", the character Foxxy Love listens to a book on tape entitled: Clara's Story: How I Kissed a Black Girl, as read by Droopy Dog on headphones.

He is also known as a stand-up comedian and authored a book about the art of stand-up, Zen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy in 1999.

* Audio: John Kinsella reads " Rapture: Tim Discovers the Cosmos " from the book Divine Comedy: Journeys Through A Regional Geography ( via poemsoutloud. net )

He was a co-author of the book Truth in Comedy, which outlines techniques now common to longform improvisational theater and describes the overall structure of “ Harold ” which remains a common frame for longer improvisational scenes.

In his book The World of Musical Comedy, Stanley Green noted that the musical is " one of the most ambitiously operatic works ever written for the Broadway theatre ... Loesser said ' I may give the impression this show has operatic tendencies.

The Ted Okuda & Edward Watz book The Columbia Comedy Shorts puts Curly's appeal and legacy in critical perspective:

The book concerned with the Negro's role in an urban society is rare indeed ; ;

This is brought out in the next to last chapter of the book, `` A Hero's Funeral '', written in the form of an impassioned prose poem.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

His nationalism was not a new characteristic, but its self-consciousness, even its self-satisfaction, is more obvious in a book that stretches over the long reach of English history.

I know you are very busy now, you are writing a great deal & your book is coming out, isn't it??

Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.

In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.

One such is Abraham Meyer, the writer of a recent book, Speaking Of Man.

My last gift to him is complete silence until the book is out and the first heated discussion dies down.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

The work as it stands is not the entire book that Malraux wrote at that time -- it is only the first section of a three-part novel called La Lutte avec l'Ange ; ;

If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.

This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.

His first book, Before The Brave ( 1936 ), is a collection of poems that are almost all Communistic, but after publication of this book he rejected Communism, and advocated a pacifistic anarchy, though retaining his revolutionary idiom.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

Nowadays, more and more, all he needs is someone else's book.

Whether in his forthcoming book C. P. Snow commits the errors of judgment and of fact with which your heavily autobiographical critic charged him is important.

`` I have read an advance copy of the Snow book which is to be titled, ' Science And Government.

Representatives of Harvard University Press, which is publishing the book this month of April, recognize and freely acknowledge that they invited such reaction by allowing Life magazine to print an excerpt from the book in advance of the book's publication date.

`` Although it is not the best of which he is capable '', said Shelley as he closed the book, `` it is still poetry of a high order ''.