How to Do it Standing Up: The Friars Club Guide to Being a Comic

by Barry Dougherty

Richard Pryor (Foreword)

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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
  • ISBN10 157912254X
  • ISBN13 9781579122546
  • Publish Date 23 September 2002
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Out of Print 4 December 2009
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Inc
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 270
  • Language English