Joe Franklin's Encyclopedia of Comedians
- ISBN-10
- 0806507748
- ISBN-13
- 9780806507743
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 347
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981-10
- Publisher
- Lyle Stuart
- Author
- Joe Franklin
Description
Combing every medium--vaudeville, musical comedy, films, radio, and television--Franklin brings together, in text and pictures, the comedians and the classic routines that have, for nearly a century, made America laugh
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