Stand-Up Comedy in Chicago Vince Vieceli

Stand-Up Comedy in Chicago

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Book Title
Stand-Up Comedy in Chicago
Author
Vince Vieceli
ISBN
9781531669447
Ten years after Chicago saw its first full-time comedy club open, the landscape was decidedly different. "Stand-up comedy has exploded in the last couple of years," a club owner told the Chicago Tribune in 1985, "that's the only way to describe it: exploded." It was truly a comedy boom, with as many as 16 clubs operating at once, and it lasted nearly a decade before fading, taking with it some of Chicago's oldest comedy stages, including the Comedy Cottage, Comedy Womb, and Who's on First. Still, stalwarts like Barrel of Laughs (south) and Zanies (north) persevered. That part of the story is known; overlooked is the fact there was a comedy boom, period. To hear the story, it is as if stand-up comedy innately morphed from a dated nightclub scene to what one Chicago Sun-Times writer called "Chicago's atomic comedy blast."Binding Type: HardcoverAuthor: Vince Vieceli, Bill BradyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing Library EditionsPublished: 04/14/2014ISBN: 9781531669447Pages: 130Weight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d
Ten years after Chicago saw its first full-time comedy club open, the landscape was decidedly different. "Stand-up comedy has exploded in the last couple of years," a club owner told the Chicago Tribune in 1985, "that's the only way to describe it: exploded." It was truly a comedy boom, with as many as 16 clubs operating at once, and it lasted nearly a decade before fading, taking with it some of Chicago's oldest comedy stages, including the Comedy Cottage, Comedy Womb, and Who's on First. Still, stalwarts like Barrel of Laughs (south) and Zanies (north) persevered. That part of the story is known; overlooked is the fact there was a comedy boom, period. To hear the story, it is as if stand-up comedy innately morphed from a dated nightclub scene to what one Chicago Sun-Times writer called "Chicago's atomic comedy blast."

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Vince Vieceli, Bill Brady
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Published: 04/14/2014
ISBN: 9781531669447
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d
Ten years after Chicago saw its first full-time comedy club open, the landscape was decidedly different. "Stand-up comedy has exploded in the last couple of years," a club owner told the Chicago Tribune in 1985, "that's the only way to describe it: exploded." It was truly a comedy boom, with as many as 16 clubs operating at once, and it lasted nearly a decade before fading, taking with it some of Chicago's oldest comedy stages, including the Comedy Cottage, Comedy Womb, and Who's on First. Still, stalwarts like Barrel of Laughs (south) and Zanies (north) persevered. That part of the story is known; overlooked is the fact there was a comedy boom, period. To hear the story, it is as if stand-up comedy innately morphed from a dated nightclub scene to what one Chicago Sun-Times writer called "Chicago's atomic comedy blast."

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Vince Vieceli, Bill Brady
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Published: 04/14/2014
ISBN: 9781531669447
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d