Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays

Value: a little disappointing. Some of the "plays" are actually just dialogs as written by comedians that apparently can't write plays. Other plays are a fun read.

Unfortunately, these plays were not my kind of funny, but different things tickle different people. Perhaps it is your type of comedy.

What makes this great is there are all types of Comedy used in this anthology. You do not have to suffer through only silly plays or just a bunch of satirical plays, but get a solid display of all types of humorous material for all types of people.

Some comedy not that funny, or would require the actors/audience to be in tuned or more than vaguely familiar with the culture surrounding the acts.

This is a great source of well-written, clever one-act comedies that will resonate with play reading groups of all ages (unlike most of recent origin that are geared to twenty-something year olds).

This is a great book of comic plays. I use it as a textbook to demonstrate the short comic play form to my class.

Some are too adult for high school kids, but this is the best collection of short skits that I have found.

I teach a comedy workshop for a community theater and Laugh Lines provides great material for practice sessions. Funny stuff and a very good variety of characters in short play farmat.

Too American for my tastes, but not bad