Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History - Hardcover

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781540229922

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by Margaret Hicks (Author), Mick Napier (Foreword by)

Famous for being a city of broad shoulders, Chicago has also developed an international reputation for split sides and slapped knees. Watch the Chicago style of comedy evolve from nineteenth-century vaudeville, through the rebellious comics of the '50s and into the improvisation and sketch that ushered in a new millennium. Drawing on material both hilarious and profound, Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History touches on what makes Chicago different from other cities and how that difference produced some of the greatest minds comedy will ever know: Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Del Close, John Belushi, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and so many, many more.

Number of Pages: 130

Dimensions: 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN

Publication Date: April 22, 2011

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