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Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
x, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Billy Crystal is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. With his trademark wit and heart, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old, from insomnia to memory loss to leaving dinners with half your meal on your shirt. In humorous chapters like Buying the Plot and Nodding Off, Crystal not only catalogues his physical gripes, but offers a road map to his 77 million fellow baby boomers who are arriving at this milestone age...
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An intimate look into the life and work of the revered master comedian and actor, Robin Williams.
Told largely through his own voice captured in interviews and audio recordings, this documentary takes an initimate look at the life and work of beloved American comedian and actor Robin Williams. Includes never-before-seen home video and movie/TV outtake footage as well as personal archival material and new interviews with those who knew Williams best....
Author
Language
English
Description
With his tender, funny memoir of four decades in the business, one of the first writers for Saturday Night Live traces the history of American comedy.
Alan Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to the last of the Borscht Belt standups. Then one night, despite bombing on stage, he caught the attention of Lorne Michaels and became one of the first writers at Saturday Night Live, where...
Alan Zweibel started his comedy career selling jokes for seven dollars apiece to the last of the Borscht Belt standups. Then one night, despite bombing on stage, he caught the attention of Lorne Michaels and became one of the first writers at Saturday Night Live, where...
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Series
Language
English
Description
He was "Mr. Entertainment," a show-business meteor who blazed across the twentieth century. Sammy Davis, Jr. had the kind of career that was indisputably legendary, yet his life was complex, complicated, and contradictory. Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me explores Davis' journey to create his own identity - as a black man who embraced Judaism - through the shifting tides of civil rights.
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Language
English
Description
In the late 1950's, a fresh style of standup comedy emerged tackling previously taboo subjects as sex, religion, politics, and drugs. Here are those comedians who took the big risks years ago and paved the way for today's crop of maverick comics. From the legendary Mel Brooks, to the irreverent Andy Kaufman, Richard Pryor, Steve Martin, and Bob Newhart, experience some of comedies most legendary comedians, and their ground breaking acts!