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How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America
Bloomsbury Publishing
February 2008
On Sale: January 22, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 1582346240
EAN: 9781582346243
Hardcover
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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.
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