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Author Zoglin, Richard.

Title Comedy at the edge : how stand-up in the 1970s changed America / Richard Zoglin.

Imprint New York, NY : Bloomsbury USA, c2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  792.2309 Z73c 2008    ---  Available
Description 247 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents After Lenny -- Rebellion -- Race -- Improv -- Clubbing -- Put-on -- Some fun -- Chasing Carson -- Extremists -- Women -- The boom -- Mainstream.
Summary In the rock-and-roll 1970s, a new breed of comic, inspired by the fearless Lenny Bruce, made telling jokes an art form. Innovative comedians like George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Robert Klein, and, later, Steve Martin, Albert Brooks, Robin Williams, and Andy Kaufman, tore through the country and became as big as rock stars in an era when Saturday Night Live was the apotheosis of cool and the Improv, Catch a Rising Star, and the Comedy Store were the hottest clubs around. In Comedy at the Edge, Richard Zoglin gives a backstage view of the time, when a group of brilliant, iconoclastic comedians ruled the world--and quite possibly changed it, too. Based on extensive interviews with club owners, agents, producers--and with unprecedented and unlimited access to the players themselves--Comedy at the Edge is a no-holds-barred, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most influential and tumultuous decades in American popular culture.--From source other than Library of Congress.
Source Don 03.2018 PARS
Subject Stand-up comedy -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN 9781582346243
1582346240
Standard No. NZ1 11612759
AU@ 000042325909

 
    
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