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Category - Non Fiction / History
Format - Paperback
Condition - Good
Listed - A year ago
Views - 6
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Ships From - Texas
Est. Publication Date - Feb 2009
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Comedy at the Edge is a detailed examination of how our current political, religious and cultural sensibility emerged from small comedy clubs€¦An irresistible read and a key book for understanding our era. Buffalo News What Peter Biskind did for filmmaking, Richard Zoglin does for comedy in this meticulously researched and eminently readable account of stand-up comedy in the 1970s, when a small group of brilliant, iconoclastic comedians ruled the world€”and quite possibly changed it, too.
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Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America
ISBN: 9781582346250
Publisher Description
A lighthearted survey of stand-up comedy in the 1970s draws on meticulous interviews to cite the contributions of celebrity comics, from George Carlin and Richard Pryor to Robin Williams and Andy Kauf...
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