Chicago Comedy:: A Fairly Serious History
Margaret Hicks, "Chicago Comedy:: A Fairly Serious History"
English | ISBN: 1609492110 | 2011 | 128 pages | EPUB | 1028 KB
English | ISBN: 1609492110 | 2011 | 128 pages | EPUB | 1028 KB
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.