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From his rapid-fire stand-up comedy riffs to his breakout role in Mork & Mindy and his Academy Award-winning performance in Good Will Hunting, Robin Williams was a singularly innovative and beloved entertainer. He often came across as a man possessed, holding forth on culture and politics while mixing in personal revelations - all with mercurial, tongue-twisting intensity as he inhabited and shed one character after another with lightning speed. But as Dave Itzkoff shows in this revelatory biography, Williams’ comic brilliance masked a deep well of conflicting emotions and self-doubt.

Building on the bestselling success of The Yuk Yuk’s Guide to Canadian Stand-Up, this new box set will feature tremendous routines from more of Canada’s most hilarious stand-up comedians such as Ron James, Scott Thompson, Jessica Holmes and Jon Dore. The set will also feature the stand-up comics whom Mark Breslin refers to as the “road warriors,” comedians who constantly criss-cross the country perfecting their craft and performing night after night in clubs from coast to coast.

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From the club that introduced such stars as Jim Carrey, Mike Bullard, Howie Mandel, Norm MacDonald, and Russell Peters, along with dozens more, The Yuk Yuk's Guide to Canadian Stand-Up is guaranteed to make milk come out of your nose. Mark Breslin - founder of Yuk Yuk's, the largest chain of comedy clubs in North America, and the initial force behind XM Satellite Radio Canada's comedy channel - narrates the past, present and future of Canadian comedy.

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Stand-up comedy album featuring Kurt Braunohler, Kristen Schaal, Eddie Pepitone, Beth Stelling, Heather Lawless, Kyle Kinane, John Roberts, Aparna Nancherla, Karen Gilgariff, Emily Heller, Andres du Bouchet, and Eugene Mirman

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This stand-up comedy album stars socio-political comedian W. Kamau Bell, whose characteristically biting and hilarious take on the real issues of modern America run from gentrification to raising his family in a post-Obama nation.

The debut album from stand-up comedian Kurt Braunohler.

The debut comedy album by stand-up comedian Hari Kondabolu. Kondabolu is a Brooklyn-based comic who was discovered in Seattle by the HBO Comedy Festival in 2006 while working as an immigrant rights organizer.