Comedians
by:
Arthur Grace (author)
Grace spent over a year backstage in comedy clubs and concert halls across the nation, photographing and interviewing the men and women who make us laugh, to produce this intimate and often surprising look at the grit behind the glamour in the life of a stand-up comic. Features George Burns,...
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Grace spent over a year backstage in comedy clubs and concert halls across the nation, photographing and interviewing the men and women who make us laugh, to produce this intimate and often surprising look at the grit behind the glamour in the life of a stand-up comic. Features George Burns, Whoopi Goldberg, Robin Williams, Lily Tomlin, Billy Crystal, Bob Hope, and many others. Photographs.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780766941038 (0766941035)
ASIN: 0766941035
Publish date: 1999-10
Publisher: World Pubns
Edition language: English
I don't get why Theroux doesn't like this one, and its odd for a guy who doesn't really seem to like a book to write the intro. Oh well. This is great stuff. It's full of Greene's typical insights into human nature and into the European ex-pat “predicament,” we might call it. The perspective of ...