Bibliograph

Comedy at the edge, how stand-up in the 1970s changed America, Richard Zoglin

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Comedy at the edge, how stand-up in the 1970s changed America, Richard Zoglin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-238) and index

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Comedy at the edge

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

176861824

Responsibility statement

Richard Zoglin

Sub title

how stand-up in the 1970s changed America

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-holdsbarred, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most influential and tumultuous decades in American popular culture.--From source other than Library of Congress

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