Laughing in the Dark: A Decade of Subversive Comedy

by Laurie Stone

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In this entertaining survey of the last ten years in comedy, Stone covers the new generation of daring and thoughtful comedians and performers - innovators with fresh outlooks and unmuzzled voices. Stone lends critical attention to stand-up, honoring the craft and guts required for the solo stroll. Here is the entire comic circus under one tent: iconoclasts and political provocateurs, soloists and troupes, and TV top dogs. Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, Eric Bogosian, Holly Hughes, Spalding show more Gray, Rosie O'Donnell, Tracey Ullman, Richard Lewis, Penn & Teller, Leno and Letterman are included - but so are the brightest, lesser-known artists. Stone especially champions boundary bashers: comics on the social margins who juice language and goose social taboos. show less

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Laurie Stone
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Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History
DDC/MDS
792.2 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Theater: Plays, Ballet, Opera Comedy and melodrama
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PN1969 .C65 .S76 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Special types
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