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The Friars Club is New York's equivalent of London's Comedy Store:- a melting pot of live stand up comedy where the skills and ideas of comedians and comic actors are forged by the fire of public trial. No one knows more about being funny than the Friars Club, and now for the first time, the world's funniest comedians who performed there reveal their personal tricks of the trade - and give away their favourite material - in this easy-to-use manual for aspiring comics and comedy writers. In this book, the funniest performers in American show business discuss the art of being funny: Rita Rudner; Phyllis Diller; Lily Tomlin; Jerry Stiller (from Seinfeld); playwright Neil Simon; actor Red Buttons; Richard Pryor; Freddie Roman; Richard Belzer; Ryan Stiles (from Whose Line Is It Anyway?); David Brenner
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About the Author
Barry Dougherty is the author of several books, including A Hundred Years, A Million Laughs: A Centennial Celebration of the Friar's Club and BD&L's Private Joke File. He is the Editor of the Friar's Club magazine, the Epistle.
Since 1904 the Friars Club has been wining and dining the top personalities of the times. From ribald comedy to musical merrymaking, the Friars have spent a century cultivating a tradition of top-tier humor that has spanned many generations and spawned millions of laughs.
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