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<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:59:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Jerry Seinfeld To Unveil Real Identity Of Mysterious Author "Ted L. Nancy"</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Funnyman JERRY SEINFELD will put to rest longrunning rumours he's established a side career as a fiction writer under the pseudonym TED L. NANCY when he unveils the true identity of the author in an upcoming U.S. TV broadcast. Nancy has published a series of five books since 1997, in which he pens letters to businesses, celebrities and politicians around the world in the style of the actor's legendary Seinfeld sitcom character. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:23:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>William Knoedelseder talks to Craig Ferguson about his book and The Comedy Store strike of 1979</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Not sure about the timing of this booking, since his book has been out for more than a year and went paperback in July, but author William Knoedelseder went on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to talk with Ferguson about his book, "I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era," which features mugs of Ferguson's boss, David Letterman, alongside Jay Leno, Richard Lewis and the late Andy Kaufman on the cover. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:27:18 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Kristen Schaal and Rich Blomquist on why writing a sex book was bad for their sex life | The A.V. Club</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Schaal and Blomquist talked to The A.V. Club about how a talking snake and a piece of bacon brought them together, the difference between the stand-up stage and the writers’ room, and why writing a sex book was bad for their sex life. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:37:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Inside With: Mike Sacks, Writer and Co-Author of "Our Bodies, Our Junk"</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Perhaps a sex manual--even a hilarious one--isn't public reading material. I kept inadvertantly flashing neighboring straphangers with the graphic words (Masturbation!) and imagery (malformed penises!) contained within Our Bodies, Our Junk.. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:51:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Not Busy Enough, Betty White to Also Write Two Books | NY Times</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Betty White just signed a deal to write two books for G. P. Putnam’s Sons:  “Listen Up!,” is about “life lessons learned during her incredibly varied and long career in Hollywood, with an emphasis on the extraordinary past 15 years of the star’s life,” and is scheduled for release in spring 2011. The second book, scheduled for publication in 2012, is called “The Zoo and I,” and will have stories about Ms. White and the animals at the Los Angeles Zoo. (She is a board member there and an animal rights advocate.) ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:08:41 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>2010 Thurber Prize Finalists Announced</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Three finalists have been selected for the 2010 Thurber Prize for American Humor, a prize that's one of the highest recognitions of the art of humor writing.  Now celebrating its 26th year, the award will be presented at a ceremony at New York’s Algonquin Hotel, once home to James Thurber, on October 4.  Keith Olbermann of Countdown with Keith Olbermann and a Thurber admirer who often quotes the author on his show, will serve as the evening's emcee. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:07:42 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Comedian Dwayne Perkins stars in social networking pilot for Comedy Central</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ It looks like Comedy Central might be taking a chance at a second show based around the Internet. It’s worked swimmingly so far for the network, with the monster success of Daniel Tosh’s Tosh.0.. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:51:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Stewart Lee: How I Escaped My Certain Fate (book review) | Chortle</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ On the face of it, Stewart Lee’s first non-fiction book seems little more than a print version of a DVD commentary. If you’re going to study comedy, you might as well do at the feet of such a respected practitioner of the art as Lee, the emeritus professor of comic engineering whose every line is underpinned by thoughtful precision. ]]></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:21:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Order Patton Oswalt’s book five months ahead of its release</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Earlier today Patton Oswalt tweeted that he’ll have his first book published “in exactly 5 months.” Stop! Don’t even try to do the addition. We’ve already gathered in a r... ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:33:14 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Things We Know About Patton Oswalt's New Book | Comedy Central Insider</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ While there's not a lot of information surrounding Patton Oswalt's new book, it is exciting enough to warrant a full post. We don't know a ton about it yet, but here is what we do know:... ]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:30:53 GMT</pubDate>
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