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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 all 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 Camelotbut it couldn't last. William Knoedelseder, then a cub reporter covering the scene for the Los Angeles Times , was there when the comedianswho were not paid for performingtried to change the system and incidentally tore apart their own close-knit community. In I'm Dying Up Here he tells the whole 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 Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In 1978, Knoedelseder ( Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, the Music Business, and the Mafia ) was a journalist assigned to cover newcomers transforming the comedy clubs: For the next two years, I had stage-side seats at the best show in show business.... I met and wrote about Jay Leno,

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Author

Knoedelseder, William

Publisher

PublicAffairs ; Perseus Running [distributor

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781586483173

Category

humor

Subjects

Performing Arts, Sports, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.92 / 5 (925 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14