Author: Emma RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Prohibited Comedy
Author: Emma RobinsonThe Comedians
Author: Kliph NesteroffPublisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802190863
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
“Funny [and] fascinating . . . If you’re a comedy nerd you’ll love this book.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, National Post, and Splitsider Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, this 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 vaudeville circuit at the turn of the last century, the book introduces the first stand-up comedian—an emcee who abandoned physical shtick for straight jokes. After the repeal of Prohibition, Mafia-run supper clubs replaced speakeasies, and mobsters replaced vaudeville impresarios as the comedian’s primary employer. In the 1950s, the late-night talk show brought stand-up to a wide public, while Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Jonathan Winters attacked conformity and staged a comedy rebellion in coffeehouses. From comedy’s part in the civil rights movement and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, to the first comedy clubs of the 1970s and the cocaine-fueled comedy boom of the 1980s, The Comedians culminates with a new era of media-driven celebrity in the twenty-first century. “Entertaining and carefully documented . . . jaw-dropping anecdotes . . . This book is a real treat.” —Merrill Markoe, TheWall Street Journal
Luis Royo Prohibited
Author: Luis RoyoPublisher: Norma Editorial
ISBN: 9781882931934
Category : Erotic drawing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The third volume of the Prohibited book saga, which completes the trilogy, contains a sensational illustrated story full of eroticism written by Luis Royo.
Lectures on the English Comic Writers
Author: William HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Lectures on the English comic writers. Lectures on the English poets
Author: William HazlittPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Women in France During the Eighteenth Century
Author: Julia KavanaghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Whitehall; or, The days of Charles i. By the author of Whitefriars
Author: Emma RobinsonCollection of Ancient and Modern British Authors
Author: Emma RobinsonWhitehall
Author: Emma RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Author: Emma Robinson