We Killed The Rise of Women in American Comedy

Name: We Killed The Rise of Women in American Comedy
Price: 6.48 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780374287238

ISBN-10: 0374287236

ISBN-13: 9780374287238

Edition: 2012

Authors: Yael Kohen

List price: $27.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $6.48

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

More than fifty years of iconic comediennes, unmediated and unfilteredIn January 2007,Vanity Fairpublished an essay by Christopher Hitchens called “Why Women Aren’t Funny.” It was incendiary, much-discussed, and—as proven by Yael Kohen’s fascinating oral history—totally wrongheaded.InWe Killed, Kohen assembles America’s most prominent comediennes (and the writers, producers, nightclub owners, and colleagues who revolved around them) to piece together the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy. We start in the 1950s, when comic success meant ridiculing and desexualizing yourself. Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller emerged as America’s favorite frustrated ladies; the joke…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/16/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Cast of Characters


Authorï¿½s Note


Introduction



Mothers of Invention


Headlining




Lily of the Underground


Headlining




Prime Time


Headlining



In the Spot: Carol Burnett



Saturday Night Live: The Boysï¿½ Club


Headlining




I Am Woman


Headlining



In the Spot: Merrill Markoe



The Boom Yours


Headlining: Roseanne



In the Spot: Ellen DeGeneres



Ianeane Garofalo and Friends


Headlining




Saturday Night Live: The Girlsï¿½s Club


Headlining




Comic Rising


Headlining



Acknowledgments