The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy

by Kliph Nesteroff

Book Overview

Jokes change from generation to generation, but the experience of the comedian transcends the ages: the drive, jealousy, heartbreak, and triumph. From the Marx Brothers to Milton Berle to George... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802123988
• ISBN13: 9780802123985
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

If you like skipping from fact to fact, this is your book.

A frenetic book where one is barraged on each page with micro-facts, seemingly all related to comics and drug culture. Nothing uplifting about this book and questionable if some of the many comedians profiled in it were ever funny. I found myself disliking most of them as I read the book. I prefer to be inspired by people's lives, not demoralized.