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Seriously Funny : the Rebel Comedians of the 1950S and 1960S by Nachman, Gerald is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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The comedians of the 1950s and 1960s were a totally different breed of relevant, revolutionary performer from any that came before or after, comics whose humor did much more than pry guffaws out of audiences. Gerald Nachman presents the stories of the groundbreaking comedy stars of those years, each one a cultural harbinger: • Mort Sahl, of a new political cynicism • Lenny Bruce, of the sexual, drug, and language revolution • Dick Gregory, of racial unrest • Bill Cosby and Godfrey Cambridge, of
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- Author
- Nachman, Gerald
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Pantheon Books
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307490728
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Memoir, Science, History
- Rating
- 3.61 / 5 (92 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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