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The comedians : drunks, thieves, scoundrels, and the history of American comedy

2015

Format:	Book
Author:	Nesteroff, Kliph, author.
Title:	The comedians : drunks, thieves, scoundrels, and the history of American comedy / Kliph Nesteroff.
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Grove Press, [2015] ©2015.
Description:	xvii, 425 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:	American wit and humor -- History and criticism. Stand-up comedy -- United States -- History and criticism. Comedians -- United States.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-393) and index.
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.
ISBN:	9780802123985 0802123988 9780802123985 0802123988
Other Number:	921844606
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Control Number:	546392
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Call Number:	792.76 Nesterof

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