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I'm Dying Up Here

Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era

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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 <i>Tonight Show</i>. 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 <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, 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>I'm Dying Up Here</i> 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.

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I'm Dying Up Here, William Knoedelseder

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Titul
I'm Dying Up Here
Podtitul
Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era
Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavateľ
PublicAffairs
Rok vydania
2017
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
304
ISBN10
1610398661
ISBN13
9781610398664
Série
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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 <i>Tonight Show</i>. 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 <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, 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>I'm Dying Up Here</i> 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.