Funnymen - 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 Funnymen write by Ted Heller. This book was released on 2002-04-03. Funnymen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. SIGMUND "ZIGGY" BLISSMAN isn't the best-looking, sanest boy in the world. Far, far from it. But this misfit child of a failed husband-and-wife vaudeville team has one (and only one) thing going for him: He can crack people up merely by batting his eyelashes. And Vittorio "Vic" Fontana, the son of a fisherman, is a fraud. Barely able to carry a tune or even stay awake while attempting to, the indolent baritone (if that's what he is) has one thing going for him: Women love to look at him. On their own, they're failures. But on one summer night in the Catskills, they step onstage and together become the funniest men -- and the hottest act -- in America. Funnymen is the wildly inventive story of Fountain and Bliss, the comedy duo that delighted America in the 1940s and '50s. Conceived as a fictional oral biography and filled with more than seventy memorable characters, Funnymen details the extraordinary careers of two men whose professional success is never matched in their personal lives. The two men fight constantly with their managers, their wives, their children, their mistresses, and those responsible for their success: each other. The stories recounted about Vic and Ziggy -- and the truths Heller reveals about human ambition, egotism, and friendship -- make Funnymen a wild ride of a novel that is also a rare and imaginative masterpiece of storytelling.
Funnymen: Life and Times on the Greatest Show on Earth
Funnymen: Life and Times on the Greatest Show on Earth - 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 Funnymen: Life and Times on the Greatest Show on Earth write by . This book was released on . Funnymen: Life and Times on the Greatest Show on Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Baseball's Funnymen
Baseball's Funnymen - 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 Baseball's Funnymen write by Lew Freedman. This book was released on 2017-01-05. Baseball's Funnymen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Nick Altrock to Casey Stengel, Dizzy Dean to Satchel Paige, Bill Veeck to Bob Uecker, baseball has always admired the clever. This book tells the stories of some of the players, coaches, managers and broadcasters who had the most fun in the Major Leagues and made fans laugh out loud (or shake their heads in disbelief). The author recounts tales both famous and little known that capture the character of unusual and offbeat players, unique and engaging personalities and the succession of eccentrics who were officially dubbed "Clown Prince of Baseball."
The Funny Men
The Funny Men - 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 Funny Men write by Steve Allen. This book was released on 1956. The Funny Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Comic Genius
Comic Genius - 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 Comic Genius write by . This book was released on 2013-10-15. Comic Genius available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This star-studded tribute to the kings and queens of comedy draws together such legendary names as Steve Martin, Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Eddie Murphy, Robin Williams, Ricky Gervais, and many more. Granted extraordinary access, photographer Matt Hoyle has captured his subjects in portraits that are works of art in themselves—by turns zany and deadpan, laugh-out-loud and contemplative. Accompanying them are first-person reflections from each of the comedians on life and laughter that always cut straight to the heart of comedy: it's funny because it's true. Page after sidesplitting page in Comic Genius offers prose as engaging as each portrait is memorable. Here, in one handsome package, is the gift of laughter itself. Comic Genius is proud to support Save The Children.
