Radio Comedy

Name: Radio Comedy
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ISBN: 9780195079180

ISBN-10: 0195079183

ISBN-13: 9780195079180

Edition: 1979 (Reprint)

Authors: Arthur Frank Wertheim

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Radio Comedy is a fascinating journey into the recent past of American popular culture, an exploration of radio's Golden Age of humor. Bringing together excerpts from the transcripts of shows that helped define a period, and offering many rare studio photographs, it brings to life once again the excitement that radio generated among American audiences of the 30s and 40s. Wertheim recaptures the uproarious comedy of Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Bob Hope, and Will Rogers, as well as the small town humor of programs such as Fibber McGee and Molly and Vic and Sade, showing how and why they became such a craze during the Great Depression and World War II eras. He also explores the…

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/22/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.38" wide x 8.06" long x 0.93" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English