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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 essential history of American comedy.
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The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy
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The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy
2016, Grove Press
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Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy
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The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy
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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-393) and index.
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