The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy
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Book Overview
In The Comedians , comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff brings to life a century of American comedy with real-life characters, forgotten stars, mainstream heroes and counterculture iconoclasts. Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, Nesteroff's groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past one hundred years. Starting with the...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0802123988
ISBN13:9780802123985
Release Date:November 2015
Publisher:Grove Press
Length:432 Pages
Weight:1.72 lbs.
Dimensions:1.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"
Customer Reviews
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If you like skipping from fact to fact, this is your book.
Published by Wayne , 1 year ago
A frenetic book where one is barraged on each page with micro-facts, seemingly all related to comics and drug culture. Nothing uplifting about this book and questionable if some of the many comedians profiled in it were ever funny. I found myself disliking most of them as I read the book. I prefer to be inspired by people's lives, not demoralized.
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