Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art

by Sam Wasson

Book Overview

A Finalist for the 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award

"With Saturday Night Live looming ever larger in the pop culture landscape, it's time for a history of improv comedy. Wasson delivers, moving nimbly from improv's origins in 1950s Chicago to movies like Caddyshack and TV shows like The Colbert Report." --Entertainment Weekly

"A compelling, absolutely unputdownable story . . . And, in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0544557204
• ISBN13: 9780544557208
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"