Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
by Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9780446505314
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication date: 12/2/2008
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 8.80 (w) x 11.10 (h) x 1.60 (d)
Overview
From the most popular routines and the most ingenious physical shtick to the snappiest wisecracks and the most biting satire of the last century, MAKE 'EM LAUGH illuminates who we are as a nation by exploring what makes us laugh, and why. Authors Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor draw on countless sources to chronicle the past century of American comedy and the geniuses who created and performed it-melding biography, American history, and a lotta laughs into an exuberant, important book.
