Title:
The comedians : drunks, thieves, scoundrels, and the history of American comedy / Kliph Nesteroff.
ISBN:
9780802123985
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Grove Press, [2015]
©2015
Physical Description:
xvii, 425 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents:
Vaudeville comedians -- Radio -- Nightclubs -- Television -- Late night -- The emergence of Las Vegas -- Stand-up's great change -- Percolation in the mid-1960s -- Hippie madness at decade's end -- The first comedy clubs and the 1970s -- The stand-up comedy boom -- The 1990s -- The new mellennium.
Summary:
"Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the stand-up comedian transcends the ages: the striving and struggles, the tragedy and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle, George Carlin to Eddie Murphy, Conan O'Brien to Louis C. K.--comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff presents a century of fascinating rebels, forgotten stars, and characters on the precipice of fame in this essnetial history of American comedy."--Book jacket.
OCLC Number:
ocn921844606
Availability:
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