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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 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.
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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.
PublicAffairs; August 2009
304 pages; ISBN 9780786746187
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304 pages; ISBN 9780786746187
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Subject categories
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > Comedy > General works
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > Tragedy > General works
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > History > Comprehensive, American and English
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > History > Compends, outlines, etc.
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > History > Medieval, general works
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > History > Medieval miracle plays, mysteries,
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > History > Renaissance, special topics
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > History > Modern, general works
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > History > 17th century
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > History > 18th century
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > History > 20th century
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > Technique of dramatic composition > General works, American and English
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > Technique of dramatic composition > General works, German
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > Technique of dramatic composition > Tragic effect
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > Technique of dramatic composition > Irony
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > Technique of dramatic composition > Character treatment
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > Technique of dramatic composition > Play within a play
- Academic > Literature > Drama > Special types
- Academic > Literature > Authorship > Technique. Literary composition, etc.
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > Study and Teaching
- Academic > Performing Arts > Theater > Biography of Critics
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- Performing Arts > Theater
- Performing Arts > Comedy
- Biography & Autobiography > Entertainment & Performing Arts
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0786746181
9780786746187
9781586488963