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The Seattle International Comedy Competition is an annual, multi-week, judged, stand-up comedy contest. Over 30 comedians, out of hundreds who apply, perform in shows held in comedy clubs, bars, restaurants, casinos, and theaters in and around the Seattle and the Pacific Northwest throughout the month of November. This audio features six 2011 finalists, including Mike Baldwin, the winner.

The tools improvisers use to create wonderful - and often hilarious - scenes on stage are easily transferred off the stage and into real life. These tools have changed my life completely, and I want to share that with you. In this audiobook, you’ll find some of our favorite improv exercises as well as real-life examples of how our students’ mind-sets and lives have grown and become ultimately fulfilling through practicing improvisation.

Henny Youngman was responsible for the most popular comedic one-liner in history: "Take my wife...please." His rapid-fire delivery was admired by comedians and audiences for 70 years. These are his classics.

One Big Joke (And 300 Shorter Ones) has been maniacally shouted by the author into three hours of non-stop laughter. As you listen, you will discover that Jon D. Webster has the comedic timing of a Swiss watch that tells hilarious jokes. Peppered with the occasional appropriate, impactful, and effective use of profanity, Jon gives us his unique take on more subjects than he probably should have.

As a stay at home mother of three, Leanne was looking for a way to get some grown up time without interfering with her children or her husband’s career. She turned to selling jewelry at in home parties. Word of her wonderful sense of humor and intoxicating southern charm spread like wildfire and she was staying booked months in advance. From here, she was asked to entertain several local corporate events and a professional comedy career was born.

José Jiménez has often been described as an ethnic character. But José is the quintessential "little man". Featured in the movie The Right Stuff, and starring at President John F. Kennedy's inaugural ball, Bill Dana's José is a most memorable, classic, and original character.

From Scandihoovian Spanglish to snickering chickens, New York Times best-selling author and humorist Michael Perry navigates a wide range of topics in this collection of brief essays drawn from his weekly appearances on the nationally syndicated Tent Show Radio program. Fatherhood, dumpster therapy, dangerous wedding rings, Christmas trees, used cars, why you should have bacon in your stock portfolio, loggers in clogs - whatever the subject, Perry has a rare ability to touch both the funny bone and the heart.

This fourth HBO special by George Carlin was recorded on April 18 and 19, 1984 and features mostly new material. The opening features Carlin in Catholic school with a short version of "Class Clown" and animation shorts. The ending features Carlin playing piano to an original song called "Armadillo Blues".

Find amusement with the hundreds of classic riddles, jokes, and puzzles in this collection! Gathered from every conceivable source and delivered in a droll fashion, this selection of brain teasers is as sound today as it was 100 years ago.

Sean makes his triumphant return to the stage with a narrative that makes his audience laugh or cry in the blink of an eye. Talking about his father this is both poignant and funny. It takes comedy to a new level.

Eddie Ifft has been both pissing people off and making people laugh his whole life. After a string of dead-end jobs, including being "asked to leave" his father's own insurance company, it was only then did Ifft step onto the stage at an open mic night in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, to see what "two double gin and tonics…a lot of childhood insecurity" and his gift-of-the-controversial gab could do.

Before his 1-hour Netflix special and autobiographical book, Moshe Kasher was just an Oakland, CA comic who was getting roasted and toasted by the internet - and returning the favor. Kasher delves into the dark world of YouTube comments and offers the unique perspective of a Jewish kid raised by deaf parents in crack-ridden Oakland, CA. The results are both unique and astonishing.

The place: New York. The time: the early 1980s. The scene: the red-hot comedy clubs, very late at night. The cast: five would-be stand-up comics, their egos, and their girls. The result: a downright hilarious novel about trying to be funny for fame, fortune, and fornication. This is Bill Maher's report from the front, a stageside table at the birth of the comedy boom. You'll laugh in all the right places.

After getting kicked out of the police academy, Alfred Robles rose to become one of the hottest young comedians in the country. Two years into his comedy career, Alfred was featured on the hit shows Loco Comedy Jam and the Latino Laugh Festival.

This pretty, petite firecracker is known for her infectious laugh, her brash style of humor, and for fearlessly addressing topics that most female comics tend to avoid. Jen Murphy fully embraces her gender's overall insanity, and finds the funny in her traditionally male dominated, X-rated subject matter.

Perhaps the brightest, funniest, freshest clean Comedian to come along in a long, long, time. Chicago comedian Tyler Boeh will add hilarity to your commute with this uproarious audiobook.

Darryl Littleton, pka D'Militant, is a comedy historian, a writer, a stand-up comedian, a producer, and an actor. Known for his crackling wit as well as his slicing and incisive social and political commentary, in Too Raw for Mainstream he gives you his uncensored opinions on today's topics. No subject is out of bounds, no topic too sensitive, no commentary too raw.

With an impressive third place finish in the prestigious 2013 Seattle International Comedy Contest as well as 1st place finish in the 2013 Sacramento Comedy Festival and another 1st place finish in the 2013 World Series of Comedy Raleigh Satellite contest, Trenton Davis’ 10,000-plus hours of stand-up comedy are beginning to show dividends! He’s carried that momentum into 2014 with a 2nd-place finish in the San Diego Comedy Festival.

High-octane good times are had by all when Graham Elwood comes to the stage. Which is what you'll get by listening to Graham Elwood: The Comedian's Got a Boo Boo. Whether he's talking about the 13-state medical marijuana tour with Doug Benson, entertaining the military in Afghanistan and Iraq or punishing mic stands with his karate skills as a second degree yellow belt, Elwood is a comedy storm.

The classics from "The Pride of Brooklyn" are here in this collection - the best of four of Pat's albums: Our Hero, Spaghetti Sauce and Other Delights, You Don't Havee to Be Italian to Like Pat Cooper, and More Saucy Stories.