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Improv Nation
How We Made a Great American Art
Sam Wasson
- 485 pages
- English
- ePUB (adapté aux mobiles)
- Disponible sur iOS et Android
Improv Nation
How We Made a Great American Art
Sam Wasson
Ă propos de ce livre
"Like the best of his subjects, which include Stephen Colbert, Bill Murray and Tina Fey, Wasson has perfect timing."â Minneapolis Star-Tribune Finalist for the 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award In this richly reported, scene-driven narrative, Sam Wasson charts the meteoric rise of improv from its unlikely beginnings in McCarthy-era Chicago. We witness the chance meeting between Mike Nichols and Elaine May, hang out at the after-hours bar where Dan Aykroyd hosted friends like John Belushi, Bill Murray, and Gilda Radner, and go behind the scenes of cultural landmarks from The Graduate to The Colbert Report. Along the way, we befriend pioneers such as Harold Ramis, Chevy Chase, Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, Alan Arkin, Tina Fey, Judd Apatow, and many others. "Compelling, absolutely unputdownableâŠAnd, in case you're wondering, yes, the book is funny. In places, very funny. A remarkable story, magnificently told."â Booklist "One of the most important stories in American popular cultureâŠWasson may be the first author to explain [improv's] entire historyâŠa valuable book."â The New York Times Book Review " Improv Nation masterfully tells a new history of American comedyâŠIt holds the element of surpriseâtrue to the spirit of its subject."â Entertainment Weekly
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Informations
Table des matiĂšres
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Hi, How Are You?
- We the Jews
- 1940â1955
- 1955â1956
- 1956â1959
- 1959â1962
- 1962â1963
- 1963â1967
- 1967â1968
- We the Punks
- 1969â1972
- 1972
- 1973â1974
- 1974â1975
- 1975â1976
- 1977â1982
- 1982â1984
- Photos
- We the Nerds
- 1984â1987
- 1988â1994
- 1995â2001
- 2001â2008
- Goodnight, Everyone
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- Sample Chapter from FOSSE
- Buy the Book
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH