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PRESS Democracynow.org, June 24, 2008 Portfolio.com, June 23, 2008 The Sound of Young America, June 12, 2008 Michael Krasny Show, May 8, 2008 92nd Street Y, March 20, 2008 Variety, March 19, 2008 Los Angeles Book Party Photos, March 4, 2008 Atlanta Journal-Constitution, March 4, 2008 Associated Press, February 21, 2008 New York Book Party Video, February 12, 2008 New York Book Party Photos, February 12, 2008 Today Show, February 4, 2008 New York Daily News, January 13, 2008 New York Post, January 20, 2008 Boston Globe, January 27, 2008 Christian Science Monitor, January 29, 2008 Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2008 New York Times (review), March 16, 2008 New York Times (editors' choice), March 23, 2008 Oregonian, March 23, 2008 PRAISE Required reading for anybody who has laughed or cried at the zingers tossed out by Richard Pryor or any of the other brilliant performers - from Lenny Bruce to Jerry Seinfeld - who populate this riveting, politically savvy, and fluently written account of the golden age of stand-up comedy. The stand-ups are the warriors of show business, and Richard Zoglin has brilliantly captured their funny and often desperate world. It's no small matter to revise an entire nation's sense of humor, but that's the unannounced revolution the stand-up comics of the 1970s accomplished. Richard Zoglin has told their story in this engagingly written, thoroughly reported book. Thoughtful, witty, and totally original in concept and execution, Comedy at the Edge is delicious reading - both as social history and as an edgy exploration of what makes us laugh in postmodern America.
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