I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up

I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era
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In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from all across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. There, in a late-night world of sex, drugs, dreams and laughter, they created an artistic community unlike any before or since. It was Comedy Camelotâ€”but it couldn't last.
William Knoedelseder, then a cub reporter covering the scene for the Los Angeles Times, was there when the comediansâ€”who were not paid for performingâ€”tried to change the system and incidentally tore apart their own close-knit community. In I'm Dying Up Here he tells the whole story of that golden age, of the strike that ended it, and of how those days still resonate in the lives of those who were there.
Country USA
Brand PublicAffairs
Manufacturer PublicAffairs
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 12-pp. b/w photos on text
ReleaseDate 2010-07-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781586488963

I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era