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Seriously Funny : The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s by Nachman, Gerald is a humor available to read on EtoBox.
What is Seriously Funny : The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s about?
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 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 racial harmony Phyllis Diller, of housewifely complaint Mike Nichols & Elaine May and Woody Allen, of self-analytical angst and a rearrangement of male-female relations Stan Freberg and Bob Newhart, of encroaching, pervasive pop media manipulation and, in the case of Bob Elliott & Ray Goulding, of the banalities of broadcasting Mel Brooks, of the Yiddishization of American comedy Sid Caesar, of a new awareness of the satirical possibilities of television Joan Rivers, of the obsessive craving for celebrity gossip and of a latent bitchy sensibility Tom Lehrer, of the inane, hypocritical, mawkishly sentimental nature of hallowed American folkways and, in the case of the Smothers Brothers, of overly revered folk s
Who reads Seriously Funny : The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Nachman, Gerald
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780375410307
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Sports, Literary Fiction, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.61 / 5 (92 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14