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  title info:
    title: I'm dying up here
    sub title: heartbreak and high times in stand-up comedy's golden era
  title info:
    title: I am dying up here
  name:
    name part: Knoedelseder, William
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2009
    edition: 1st ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 280 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: In the mid-1970s, Jay Leno, David Letterman, Andy Kaufman, Richard Lewis, Robin Williams, Elayne Boosler, Tom Dreesen, and several hundred other shameless showoffs and incorrigible cutups from across the country migrated en masse to Los Angeles, the new home of Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. There, in a late-night world of sex, drugs, dreams and laughter, they created an artistic community unlike any before or since. It was Comedy Camelot--but it couldn't last. William Knoedelseder was then a cub reporter covering the burgeoning local comedy scene for the Los Angeles Times. He was there when the comedians--not paid by the clubs where they performed--tried to change the system and incidentally tore apart their own close-knit community. Here he tells the story of that golden age, of the strike that ended it, and of how those days still resonate in the lives of those who were there.--From publisher description.
  table of contents: Prologue: A true comic -- Blood brothers -- The hippest room -- Mitzi's store -- Tom, Dave, and George -- All about Budd -- Six minutes, twenty-two laughs -- The boys' club -- Guns, drugs, and Westwood -- Comedy university -- Richard's baroness, Steve's movie -- The funniest year ever -- Roommates -- The New Year's resolution --- Drugs and theft -- Order, please -- Diary of a young comic -- The gauntlet -- Comedians for compensation -- Choosing up sides -- Fire! -- The vote -- All on the line -- Dave's big night --The union forever? -- Jay's big flop -- "My name is Steve Lubetkin" -- A standing ovation -- Epilogue: the prisoner of memory.
  note: William Knoedelseder.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Stand-up comedy
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: PN1969.C65 K56 2009
  classification: 792.7/60973
  classification: 809.2
  identifier: 9781586483173 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 158648317X (alk. paper)
  identifier: 2009013751
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090408
    record change date: 20151111062545.0
    record identifier: in00002519411