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

Name: I'm Dying up Here Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era
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ISBN: 9781586488963

ISBN-10: 1586488961

ISBN-13: 9781586488963

Edition: N/A

Authors: William K. Knoedelseder

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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.

Book details

List price: $18.50
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 7/27/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.13" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue: A True Comic


Blood Brothers


The Hippest Room


Mitzi's Store


Tom, Dave, and George


All About Budd


Six Minutes, Twenty-two Laughs


The Boys' Club


Guns, Drugs, and Westwood


Comedy University


Richard's Baroness, Steve's Movie


The Funniest Year Ever


Roommates


The New Year's Resolution


Drugs and Theft


Order, Please


Diary of a Young Comic


The Gauntlet


Comedians for Compensation


Choosing Up Sides


Fire!


The Vote


All on the Line


Dave's Big Night


The Union Forever?


Jay's Big Flop


"My Name is Steve Lubetkin"


A Standing Ovation


Epilogue: The Prisoner of Memory


Index