An American Comedy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An American Comedy write by Harold Lloyd. This book was released on 1928. An American Comedy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tim & Tom
Tim & Tom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tim & Tom write by Tim Reid. This book was released on 2009-02-15. Tim & Tom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As the heady promise of the 1960s sagged under the weight of widespread violence, rioting, and racial unrest, two young men--one black and one white--took to stages across the nation to help Americans confront their racial divide: by laughing at it. Tim and Tom tells the story of that pioneering duo, the first interracial comedy team in the history of show business--and the last. Tim Reid and Tom Dreesen polished their act in the nightclubs of Chicago, then took it on the road, not only in the North, but in the still-simmering South as well, developing routines that even today remain surprisingly frank--and remarkably funny--about race. Most nights, the shock of seeing an integrated comedy team quickly dissipated in uproarious laughter, but on some occasions the audience’s confusion and discomfort led to racist heckling, threats, and even violence. Though Tim and Tom perpetually seemed on the verge of making it big throughout their five years together, they grudgingly came to realize that they were ahead of their time: America was not yet ready to laugh at its own failed promise. Eventually, the grind of the road took its toll, as bitter arguments led to an acrimonious breakup. But the underlying bond of friendship Reid and Dreesen had forged with each groundbreaking joke has endured for decades, while their solo careers delivered the success that had eluded them as a team. By turns revealing, shocking, and riotously funny, Tim and Tom unearths a largely forgotten chapter in the history of comedy.
We Killed
We Killed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Killed write by Yael Kohen. This book was released on 2012-10-16. We Killed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kohen assembles America's most prominent comediennes to piece together an oral history about the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy.
The Comedians
The Comedians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Comedians write by Kliph Nesteroff. This book was released on 2015-11-03. The Comedians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “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
Comedy at the Edge
Comedy at the Edge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Comedy at the Edge write by Richard Zoglin. This book was released on 2009-02-10. Comedy at the Edge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surveys the stand-up comedy of the 1970s, citing the contributions of celebrity comics, from George Carlin and Richard Pryor to Robin Williams and Andy Kaufman, in an account that also evaluates the roles played by such clubs as Catch a Rising Star, the Improv, and the Comedy Store.
