Will’s Reviews > The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy > Status Update

An exhaustive history of stand up from the early days of vaudeville, the Marx Brothers, through radio, the early days of television, Vegas and the influence of the mob, the very odd 1960s & 70s, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson & Dave Letterman’s Tonight Shows, the boom of comedy clubs, influence of Eddie Murphy “Raw” and “Delirious”, SNL through to the podcast explosion in the early 2000s. A comedy fans’ bible.