I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden EraPublicAffairs, 25 авг. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 368 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 Tonight Show. 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 Los Angeles Times, 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'm Dying Up Here 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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The Hippest Room | 19 |
Mitzis Store | 31 |
Tom Dave and George | 45 |
All About Budd | 59 |
Six MinutesTwentytwo Laughs | 65 |
The Boys Club | 71 |
Diary of a Young Comic | 141 |
The Gauntlet | 147 |
Comedians for Compensation | 153 |
Choosing Up Sides | 165 |
Fire | 175 |
The Vote | 181 |
All on the Line | 189 |
Daves Big Night | 203 |
Guns Drugs and Westwood | 81 |
Comedy University | 87 |
Richards Baroness Steves Movie | 93 |
The Funniest Year Ever | 101 |
Rommates | 111 |
The New Years Resolution | 117 |
Drugs and Theft | 125 |
Order Please | 135 |
The Union Forever? | 211 |
Jays Big Flop | 223 |
My Name Is Steve Lubetkin | 231 |
A Standing Ovation | 245 |
The Prisoner of Memory | 253 |
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About the Author | 281 |
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