Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America
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ISBN-13: 9781582346250
ISBN-10: 1582346259
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Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America by Zoglin, Richard. Paperback edition. ISBN: 9781582346250.
Comedy at the Edge is a detailed examination of how our current political, religious and cultural sensibility emerged from small comedy clubs¦An irresistible read and a key book for understanding our era.Buffalo News What Peter Biskind did for filmmaking, Richard Zoglin does for comedy in this meticulously researched and eminently readable account of stand-up comedy in the 1970s, when a small group of brilliant, iconoclastic comedians ruled the worldand quite possibly changed it, too.
