I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Standup Comedy's Golden Era
- ISBN-10
- 1586488961
- ISBN-13
- 9781586488963
- Category
- Performing Arts
- Pages
- 280
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-07
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Author
- William Knoedelseder
Description
Full of revealing portraits of many of the best-known comedic talents of the 1970s, "I'm Dying Up Here" is also a poignant tale of the price of success and the terrible cost of failure--professional and moral.
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