Budd Friedman

The Improv: An Oral History of the Comedy Club That Revolutionized Stand-Up

Sprecher: Heller, Johnny

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Tantor
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 656 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781665246798
• Artikelnr.: 61510597

Autorenporträt

Budd Friedman

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Jay Leno
Prologue
Introduction
Part One
1. Growing Up Fatherless and Struggling to Find My Way
2. Broadway Bound and the Unexpected Detour
3. Building the House That Hilarity Built
4. Flying by the Seat of My Pants
5. The Improv Gets Hot
6. A Future Film Legend Wanders into West 44th Street and I Nearly
Produce My First Show
7. The Singing Waitresses
8. Liza Minelli and Judy Garland . . . Onstage at the Improv
9. Not So Blown Away by Bette Midler . . . at First
10. Comedians Start Coming to the Improv
11. The Anointment of King Richard
Part Two
1. Revelry and Rivalry
2. Stiller and Meara
3. More Momentum, My Monocle-and Lily Tomlin's Grand Entrance
4. The One and Only Rodney Dangerfield
5. Robert Klein Elevates Stand-Up-and the Improv-to a New Level
6. Locking Horns with David Brenner
7. Richard Lewis
8. The Hippest Room in America
9. The Improv's Gentle Giant
10. The Improv and The Tonight Show
11. A Tale of Two Comedy Clubs
12. Meeting Jay
13. Producing My First Show
Part Three
14. Expansion
15. My Early California Adventures
16. Andy Kaufman Turns Stand-Up Upside Down
17. Dissing Larry David
18. A Tsunami Named Robin
19. Comedy's Tragic Prinze
20. A Troubling Nemesis Named Mitzi Shore
21. Going Up in Flames
22. Old Enemies and New Beginnings
Part Four
23. An Evening at the Improv
24. The Improv Explodes . . . and the Stakes Get Even Higher
25. The Comedy Boom Busts and Finding Fallon
26. Passing the Baton and Looking Ahead: The 2000s to the Present
Acknowledgments
About the Authors