Prior to the book's release, there was little mainstream demand for the shaggy-dog stories of old wrestlers.
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For people who like shaggy dog stories, add little bits of the green cactus on the top of the omelette to make sad or funny faces.
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William is portrayed by Mr. Kitson, a British raconteur of elaborately groomed shaggy-dog stories that have earned him a devoted following among fans of stand-up theater.
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The new book by the two surviving members of the Beastie Boys is "a compendium of anecdotes, recipes, impish riffs and shaggy-dog stories and a heartfelt elegy" to their bandmate, Adam Yauch, who died in 2012, our critic writes.
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Called "Beastie Boys Book" (though the front cover might lead you to believe that the actual title is "PIZZA"), it's a 571-page doorstop and a tombstone, a compendium of anecdotes, recipes, impish riffs and shaggy-dog stories and a heartfelt elegy to a much-missed friend.
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He is prone to recounting pointless, meandering shaggy dog stories at the drop of a hat. Buford and Jacob are both new at school.
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His lack of anxiety and worries are not due to a lack of intelligence but to difficulty focusing. He is prone to recounting pointless, meandering shaggy dog stories. Buford and Jacob are both new kids at school. He is a good friend to Jacob.
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Phil Starr (March 31, 1932 - October 18, 2005), birth name Arthur James Fuller, was a gay cabaret comedian, singer, mainstay and regular feature of the London and English south coast gay scene during a career spanning from the 1950s, until his sudden and unexpected death. Famous within his genre and locale, Starr's act was typically old school: comic, lengthy shaggy dog stories, often culminating in a hilarious, unexpected twist.
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The book is mainly a compilation of anecdotes, urban legends, jokes, ghost stories, what Cerf calls "shaggy dog stories", and profiles of newsmakers. Celebrities profiled by Cerf include Alexander Woollcott, Gertrude Stein, Robert Emmet Sherwood, Albert Einstein, Herbert Bayard Swope, Dorothy Thompson, Monty Woolley, George Gershwin, and Lucius Beebe. While reviewers called the book "a lot of stories some of which practically everybody has read or heard","Have You Heard This One?" The New York Times Book Review, November 12, 1944.
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The show was seen by over a million people and earned £350,000 at the box office. In conjunction with Piccadilly Hayride, Terry-Thomas undertook a number of other additional one-off appearances in cabaret and private functions. He also appeared in editions of Variety Bandbox and Workers' Playtime on BBC Radio. His ever-evolving act consisted of imitations, including that of his friend, the musician Leslie Hutchinson (known as "Hutch"); sketches, including "Technical Hitch"; urbane monologues, and "languid shaggy dog stories".
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In order to better elucidate the structure and function of the punch line, it is useful to look at some joke forms that purposely remove or avoid the punch line in their narrative. Shaggy dog stories are long-winded anti-jokes in which the punch line is deliberately anti-climactic. The humor here lies in fooling the audience into expecting a typical joke with a punch line. Instead they listen and listen to nothing funny and end up themselves as the butt of the joke.
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Comedy Night at Gotham Comedy Club Some of the main types of humor in stand-up comedy include observational comedy, blue comedy, dark comedy, clean comedy, and cringe comedy. Alternative stand-up comedy deviates from the traditional, mainstream comedy by breaking either joke structure, performing in an untraditional scene, or breaking an audience's expectations; this includes the use of shaggy dog stories and anti- jokes. Stand-up comedy is often performed in corporate events, comedy clubs, bars and pubs, nightclubs, neo-burlesques, colleges and theatres (audiences will give applause breaks more often in theaters). Outside live performance, stand-up is often distributed commercially via television, DVD, CD and the internet.
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People have been telling each other stories since the first campfires, talking about the whole mix of things, important and trivial, that go into making life. Storytelling is one of the ways we figure out how to be human.” Collected here for the first time in The Story Salon Big Book of Stories are more than forty original pieces first performed by their authors at Story Salon. It’s an omnibus of memories, rants, affirmations, and shaggy-dog stories that once opened is impossible to shut. The writer/performers of Story Salon include actors, comedians, musicians, photographers, war correspondents, students, life coaches, former clowns, recovering attorneys, one admitted juggler, an international fashion model, several husbands and wives, and one mother and daughter as well as American Comedy Award-winning comedian/writer Cathy Ladman, Emmy Award winning writer Joseph Dougherty, and Story Salon’s producers: Beverly Mickins, innovative Podcaster Lance Anderson, and popular writer/comedian Dan Farren. The writer/performers of Story Salon “In Order of Appearance in The Story Salon: Big Book of Stories”.
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