Leading with My Chin
by Jay Leno, Bill Zehme
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Autobiography of late night talk show host Jay Leno, in which he tells about his wholesome upbringing, and the steps he took that led him from doing stand-up comedy on college campuses, to life on the comedy club circuit, and finally to "The Tonight Show.".Tags
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This autobiography is a quick, easy read. It is sectioned off into paragraph-length remembrances, vignettes that read like on-stage jokes. Many evoke a chuckle, some a hilarious. These are mostly about life on the road in the clubs and among the rising stars and tragic ones. There is a lot about Jay's nonplussed Old World parents and life with his wife. The book goes up to him taking over The Tonight Show.
This book surprised me. It was actually good. Not superbly written perhaps, but funny and heart warming.
If you're really into Jay Leno, I suppose this might be entertaining. Otherwise, there's no reason to read this at all. He's more entertaining on TV.
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Bill Zehme is the author of the New York Times bestseller THE WAY YOU WEAR YOUR HAT: FRANK SINATRA AND THE LOST ART OF LIVIN'. Recognized among the nation's more unique interpreters of popular culture, he is a longtime writer at large for Esquire, and his impressionistic profiles have appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, and Vanity Fair. During the show more six years of research for LOST IN THE FUNHOUSE, he served as supervising producer of the network television retrospective Taxi: A Celebration and consulting producer of the NBC-TV special A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman. He lives in Chicago. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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- 792.7028092 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Theater: Plays, Ballet, Opera Variety shows and theatrical dancing; burlesque, cabaret, vaudeville, music hall, nightclubs modified standard subdivisions Techniques, procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials, miscellany Acting and performance standard subdivisions History, geographic treatment, biography Biography
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- PN1992.4 .L382 .A3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Broadcasting Television broadcasts
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Audiobook
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