I'm dying up here : heartbreak and high times in stand-up comedy's golden era

The Resource I'm dying up here : heartbreak and high times in stand-up comedy's golden era

Label

I'm dying up here : heartbreak and high times in stand-up comedy's golden era

Title remainder

heartbreak and high times in stand-up comedy's golden era

Statement of responsibility

William Knoedelseder

Title variation

I am dying up here
Heartbreak and high times in stand-up comedy's golden era

Language

eng

Summary

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 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 was then a cub reporter covering the burgeoning local comedy scene for the Los Angeles Times. He was there when the comedians--not paid by the clubs where they performed--tried to change the system and incidentally tore apart their own close-knit community. Here he tells the 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.--From publisher description

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

792.7/60973

Illustrations

illustrations
plates

Index

index present

LC call number

PN1969.C65

LC item number

K56 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries
bibliography

Context

Context of I'm dying up here : heartbreak and high times in stand-up comedy's golden era

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Calgary Public Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.

Context

Work of