And here's the kicker
Subtitle: conversations with 24 top humor writers on their craft
By: by Mike Sacks.
Publisher: Writer's Digest Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cincinnati Ohio
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781582975054
Subjects: Wit and humor -- Authorship; Comedy -- Authorship; Humorists, American -- Interviews
Genres: Interviews.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Buck Henry (Get Smart, The graduate, Catch-22, To die for); title: Stephen Merchant (The Office, Extras); title: Todd Hanson (The Onion); title: Merrill Markoe (Late Night with David Letterman, it's my f; title: -ing birthday, Walking in circles before lying down); title: Dick Cavett (The Tonight Show, The Dick Cavett Show); title: Dan Mazer (Da Ali G Show, Borat, Bruno); title: Paul Feig (Freaks and Geeks, Kick me, Superstud); title: Irving Brecher (At the circus, Go west, Meet me in St. Louis, The Wizard of Oz); title: Bob Odenkirk (The Ben Stiller Show, Mr. Show with Bob and David); title: Roz Chast (The New Yorker); title: Daniel Handler (A series of unfortunate events); title: Robert Smigel (Saturday Night Live, Late nIght with Conan O'Brien, Lookwell, The Dana Carvey Show, TV Funhouse); title: Daniel Clowes (Like a velvet glove cast in iron, Ghost World, David Boring, Twentieth century eightball, Art school confidential); title: Marshall Brickman (The Tonight Show, The Dick Cavett Show, Annie Hall, Manhattan, The Muppet Show: sex and violence); title: Mitch Hurwitz (Arrested development); title: David Sedaris (Barrel fever, Naked, Me talk pretty one day, Dress your family in corduroy and denim, When you are engulfed in flames); title: George Meyer (Army man, The Simpsons); title: Al Jaffee (Mad); title: Allison Silverman (The Daily Show, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Colbert Report); title: Harold Ramis (SCTV, National Lampoon's Animal House, Meatballs, Caddyshack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Groundhog day); title: Dave Barry (Dave Barry's Guide to marriage and / or Sex, The World, According to Dave Barry, Dave Barry is not making this up); title: Larry Wilmore (In living color, The Bernie Mac Show, The Daily Show, The office); title: Bruce Jay Friedman (Stern, The Collected Short fiction of Bruce Jay, Friedman, the heartbreak kid, Stir crazy); title: Larry Gelbart (Caesar's hour, M*A*S*H, Tootsie).