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I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era
William Knoedelseder
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Description for I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era
Paperback. Full of revealing portraits of many of the best-known comedic talents of the 1970s, "I'm Dying Up Here" is also a poignant tale of the price of success and the terrible cost of failure--professional and moral. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12-pp. b/w photos on text. BIC Classification: ASZB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 435.
In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show . There, in a late-night world of sex, drugs, dreams and laughter, they created an artistic community unlike any before or since. It was Comedy Camelot,but it couldn't last. William Knoedelseder, then a cub reporter covering the scene for the Los Angeles Times , was there when the comedians,who were not paid for ... Read more
In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show . There, in a late-night world of sex, drugs, dreams and laughter, they created an artistic community unlike any before or since. It was Comedy Camelot,but it couldn't last. William Knoedelseder, then a cub reporter covering the scene for the Los Angeles Times , was there when the comedians,who were not paid for ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781586488963
SKU
V9781586488963
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About William Knoedelseder
William Knoedelseder is the author of Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, The Music Business, and the Mafia, and In Eddie's Name. He lives near Los Angeles, California.
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