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Author : Lenny Bruce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : 0333136772
Author : Lenny Bruce
Publisher : Harvill Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015020645787
Author : Lenny Bruce
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Law
ISBN : EAN:8596547189787
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "How to Talk Dirty and influence people" by Lenny Bruce. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Cohen, James Rab,John Cohen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1971-07-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0345222059
Author : Albert Goldman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:11075383
Author : Lenny Bruce
Publisher : New York : Ballantine Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004739947
From the Peter Neil Issacs collection.
Author : Frank Kofsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015038888668
From the Peter Neil Issacs collection.
Author : Kliph Nesteroff
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780802190864
“Funny [and] fascinating . . . If you’re a comedy nerd you’ll love this book.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews, National Post, and Splitsider Based on over two hundred original interviews and extensive archival research, this groundbreaking work is a narrative exploration of the way comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past one hundred years. Starting with the vaudeville circuit at the turn of the last century, the book introduces the first stand-up comedian—an emcee who abandoned physical shtick for straight jokes. After the repeal of Prohibition, Mafia-run supper clubs replaced speakeasies, and mobsters replaced vaudeville impresarios as the comedian’s primary employer. In the 1950s, the late-night talk show brought stand-up to a wide public, while Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, and Jonathan Winters attacked conformity and staged a comedy rebellion in coffeehouses. From comedy’s part in the civil rights movement and the social upheaval of the late 1960s, to the first comedy clubs of the 1970s and the cocaine-fueled comedy boom of the 1980s, The Comedians culminates with a new era of media-driven celebrity in the twenty-first century. “Entertaining and carefully documented . . . jaw-dropping anecdotes . . . This book is a real treat.” —Merrill Markoe, TheWall Street Journal
Author : Thomas Chong,Tommy Chong
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416953456
An iconic member of the counter-culture comedy duo traces their story from their introduction at a Vancouver comedy club to their renowned stand-up routines and movies to the drug controversies that marked their careers and their acrimonious separation.
Author : David Kaufman
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611683158
A lively look at four major Jewish celebrities of early 1960s America, who together made their mark on both American culture and Jewish identity
Author : Eric Bogosian
Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781559367394
"What Lenny Bruce was to the 1950s, Bob Dylan to the 1960s, Woody Allen to the 1970s--that's what Eric Bogosian is to this frightening moment of drift in our history."--Frank Rich, The New York Times
Author : Gerald Nachman
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780307490728
The comedians of the 1950s and 1960s were a totally different breed of relevant, revolutionary performer from any that came before or after, comics whose humor did much more than pry guffaws out of audiences. Gerald Nachman presents the stories of the groundbreaking comedy stars of those years, each one a cultural harbinger: • Mort Sahl, of a new political cynicism • Lenny Bruce, of the sexual, drug, and language revolution • Dick Gregory, of racial unrest • Bill Cosby and Godfrey Cambridge, of racial harmony • Phyllis Diller, of housewifely complaint • Mike Nichols & Elaine May and Woody Allen, of self-analytical angst and a rearrangement of male-female relations • Stan Freberg and Bob Newhart, of encroaching, pervasive pop media manipulation and, in the case of Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding, of the banalities of broadcasting • Mel Brooks, of the Yiddishization of American comedy • Sid Caesar, of a new awareness of the satirical possibilities of television • Joan Rivers, of the obsessive craving for celebrity gossip and of a latent bitchy sensibility • Tom Lehrer, of the inane, hypocritical, mawkishly sentimental nature of hallowed American folkways and, in the case of the Smothers Brothers, of overly revered folk songs and folklore • Steve Allen, of the late-night talk show as a force in American comedy • David Frye and Vaughn Meader, of the merger of showbiz and politics and, along with Will Jordan, of stretching the boundaries of mimicry • Shelley Berman, of a generation of obsessively self-confessional humor • Jonathan Winters and Jean Shepherd, of the daring new free-form improvisational comedy and of a sardonically updated view of Midwestern archetypes • Ernie Kovacs, of surreal visual effects and the unbounded vistas of video Taken together, they made up the faculty of a new school of vigorous, socially aware satire, a vibrant group of voices that reigned from approximately 1953 to 1965. Nachman shines a flashlight into the corners of these comedians’ chaotic and often troubled lives, illuminating their genius as well as their demons, damaged souls, and desperate drive. His exhaustive research and intimate interviews reveal characters that are intriguing and all too human, full of rich stories, confessions, regrets, and traumas. Seriously Funny is at once a dazzling cultural history and a joyous celebration of an extraordinary era in American comedy.
Author : Jack Davis,Will Elder,Al Jaffee,Harvey Kurtzman,Arnold Roth
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781606991794
You know MAD. Do you know Humbug? Harvey Kurtzman changed the face of American humor when he created the legendary MAD comic. As editor and chief writer from its inception in 1952, through its transformation into a slick magazine, and until he left MAD in 1956, he influenced an entire generation of cartoonists, comedians, and filmmakers. In 1962, he co-created the long-running Little Annie Fanny with his long-time artistic partner Will Elder forPlayboy, which he continued to produce until his virtual retirement in 1988. Between MAD and Annie Fanny, Kurtzman’s biographical summaries will note that he created and edited three other magazines―Trump, Humbug, and Help!―but, whereas his MAD and Annie Fanny are readily available in reprint form, his major satirical work in the interim period is virtually unknown. Humbug, which had poor distribution, may be the least known, but to those who treasure the rare original copies, it equals or even exceeds MAD in displaying Kurtzman’s creative genius. Humbug was unique in that it was actually published by the artists who created it: Kurtzman and his cohorts from MAD, Will Elder, Jack Davis, and Al Jaffee, were joined by universally acclaimed cartoonist Arnold Roth. With no publisher above them to rein them in, this little band of creators produced some of the most trenchant and engaging satire of American culture ever to appear on American newsstands.
Author : Stephen E. Kercher
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780226431659
We live in a time much like the postwar era. A time of arch political conservatism and vast social conformity. A time in which our nation’s leaders question and challenge the patriotism of those who oppose their policies. But before there was Jon Stewart, Al Franken, or Bill Maher, there were Mort Sahl, Stan Freberg, and Lenny Bruce—liberal satirists who, through their wry and scabrous comedic routines, waged war against the political ironies, contradictions, and hypocrisies of their times. Revel with a Cause is their story. Stephen Kercher here provides the first comprehensive look at the satiric humor that flourished in the United States during the 1950s and early 1960s. Focusing on an impressive range of comedy—not just standup comedians of the day but also satirical publications like MAD magazine, improvisational theater groups such asSecond City, the motion picture Dr. Strangelove, and TV shows like That Was the Week That Was—Kercher reminds us that the postwar era saw varieties of comic expression that were more challenging and nonconformist than we commonly remember. His history of these comedic luminaries shows that for a sizeable audience of educated, middle-class Americans who shared such liberal views, the period’s satire was a crucial mode of cultural dissent. For such individuals, satire was a vehicle through which concerns over the suppression of civil liberties, Cold War foreign policies, blind social conformity, and our heated racial crisis could be productively addressed. A vibrant and probing look at some of the most influential comedy of mid-twentieth-century America, Revel with a Cause belongs on the short list of essential books for anyone interested in the relationship between American politics and popular culture.
Author : Tony Hendra
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:39000006081124