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**What Peter Biskind did for filmmaking, __Time__ magazine critic Richard Zoglin does for comedy in this meticulously researched and hilariously readable account of stand-up comedy in the 1970s.** In the rock-and-roll 1970s, a new breed of comic, inspired by the fearless Lenny Bruce, made telling jokes an art form. Innovative comedians like George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Robert Klein, and, later, Steve Martin, Albert Brooks, Robin Williams, and Andy Kaufman, tore through the country and became as big as rock stars in an era when __Saturday Night Live__ was the apotheosis of cool and the Improv, Catch a Rising Star, and the Comedy Store were the hottest clubs around. In __Comedy at the Edge__, Richard Zoglin gives a backstage view of the time, when a group of brilliant, iconoclastic comedians ruled the world—and quite possibly changed it, too. Based on extensive interviews with club owners, agents, producers—and with unprecedented and unlimited access to the players themselves—__Comedy at the Edge__ is a no-holdsbarred, behind-the-scenes look at one of the most influential and tumultuous decades in American popular culture.

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Author

Richard Zoglin

Publisher

Bloomsbury USA; Bloomsbury; Distributed to the trade by Macmillan

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781582346250

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.78 / 5 (497 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13