Showing posts with label humor basics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humor basics. Show all posts

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Author Robert Schimmel

HUMOR AND HEARTBREAK
Comedy Central named Robert Schimmel one of its best 100 comics. He needed a sense of humor to stay sane through divorce, cancer and the death of child. He writes about it in his new book, Cancer on $5 a Day: How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life. Hear the NPR story here.
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Source - Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Newsletter

University of Dayton

January/February 2009

Copyright 2008, University of Dayton

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Make 'em Laugh

“MAKE 'EM LAUGH"

PBS's new six-hour documentary, broadcast in three parts, looks at the history of American comedy in the 20th century -- funny people talking about what's funny and why.


(source Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop Newsletter, University of Dayton, January/February 2009)