Margaret Hicks,Mick Napier: Chicago Comedy : A Fairly Serious History

Chicago Comedy : A Fairly Serious History


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Famous for being a city of broad shoulders, Chicago has also developed an international reputation for split sides and slapped knees. Watch the Chicago style of comedy evolve from nineteenth-century vaudeville, through the rebellious comics of the '50s and into the improvisation and sketch that ushered in a new millennium. Drawing on material both hilarious and profound, Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History touches on what makes Chicago different from other cities and how that difference produced some of the greatest minds comedy will ever know: Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Del Close, John Belushi, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and so many, many more.

It is an extraordinary story. An unknown young man of thirty abandons his job and launches into a new 'career' as a travelling preacher and healer. Immensely popular wit the general public, he quickly falls foul of the religious leaders of his day and then the political authorities. Just three years later he was dead, executed as a dangerous criminal. End of Story? Just the opposite! Three days later, his body had disappeared from his grave. That was only the beginning of the story of which you, the reader are now part. GAME OF THRONES: A NEW ORIGINAL SERIES, NOW ON HBO. But the school authorities detect a rebellious streak in him and insist he be sent to a special school far away. His mother refuses to yield him up, Chicago Comedy : A Fairly Serious History download epub and it is Simon who must drive the car as the trio flees across the mountains. The Childhood of Jesus is a profound, beautiful and continually surprising novel from a very great writer.


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Author: Margaret Hicks,Mick Napier
Number of Pages: 126 pages
Published Date: 02 May 2011
Publisher: History Press (SC)
Publication Country: Charleston, SC, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781609492113
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