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This in-depth compilation of the lives, works, and contributions of 12 icons of African-American comedy explores their impact on American entertainment and the way America thinks about race.

Despite the claim of many a Borscht Belt comic that he is a practitioner of "the world's second-oldest professsion, " stand-up comedy is a young and distinctly American literary form. It was not until the last decades of the nineteenth century when, enabled by unprecedented prosperity and the right to free expression, that monologists began appearing in American vaudeville halls. Yet even though it has since become an entertainment industry ma...

Live On the Sunset Strip", il capolavoro di Richard Pryor, può essere considerato la risposta moderna alla "Divina Commedia" di Dante? E la domanda da cui parte Eddie Tafoya per rintracciare le origini della stand-up comedy, la forma di spettacolo comico che in questo periodo storico vive il suo apogeo mediatico. Tafoya si addentra nel cuore della comicità americana, ne ripercorre le tappe per illustrare arditamente che i capolavori della stan...