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Title: The Last Laugh by Phil Berger ISBN: 0-8154-1096-4 Publisher: Cooper Square Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Compulsive Jokers
Comment: A strange, nervous little book that I picked up at a bus station to have something to read on the journey and found myself engrossed by. The device is simple - Berger starts with the career of one obscure comic and follows it, weaving in and around it the careers of endless other comics - an initially obscure Lenny Bruce among them - and the book just goes on in one long series of anecdotes and bits and gags to tell the history of the business from mid-century or so and towards the present day. The book has a slightly antiquated, out of date feel to it - it's definitely about the era that preceded today's comics and the people they watched on TV - but it does capture something of the DRIVE of these people and their compulsiveness. Not a book to browse, a book to listen to like a long, long monologue. Full of the sweat of comics long ago shut down and gone to Florida to sell aluminium siding. Yes - that's one of the good things about this book - it's not a glam bio and tells it like it usually was - long, and difficult and here and there quite funny as well as painful.
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Title: Comic Lives by Betsy Borns ISBN: 0671626205 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 15 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $34.50 |
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Title: Seriously Funny : The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s by Gerald Nachman ISBN: 0375410309 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America by Lawrence J. Epstein ISBN: 1891620711 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 02 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: How to Be a Working Comic: An Insider's Guide to a Career in Stand-Up Comedy by Dave Schwensen ISBN: 0823088146 Publisher: Back Stage Books Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy by Franklyn Ajaye ISBN: 1879505541 Publisher: SCB International Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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