I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era by William Knoedelseder

I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era



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I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era William Knoedelseder ebook
Page: 304
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781586488963
Publisher: PublicAffairs

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 performing—tried to change the system and incidentally tore apart their own close-knit community. In I’m Dying Up Here he tells the whole story of that golden age, of the strike that ended it, and of how those days still resonate in the lives of those who were there. Focusing on the "funniest people of their generation," Knoedelseder explores Comedy Camelot--the burgeoning Los Angeles comedy scene of the 1970s--and such shining stars as Leno, Letterman, and Andy Kaufman. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD. MORE EBOOKS:







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