Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art

Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art

Sam Wasson
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A finalist for the 2017 George Freedley Memorial Award 

 

“A compelling, absolutely unputdownable story . . . And, in case you’re wondering, yes, the book is funny. In places, very funny. A remarkable story, magnificently told.” — Booklist

  

In this richly reported, scene-driven narrative, Sam Wasson charts the meteoric rise of improv from its unlikely beginnings in McCarthy-era Chicago. We
witness the chance meeting between Mike Nichols & Elaine May, hang out at the after-hours bar where Dan Aykroyd hosted friends like John Belushi, Bill Murray, & Gilda Radner, & go behind the scenes of cultural landmarks from The Graduate to The Colbert Report. Along the way, we befriend pioneers such as Harold Ramis, Chevy Chase, Steve Carell, Amy Poehler, Alan Arkin, Tina Fey, Judd Apatow, & many others. Wasson shows why improv deserves to be considered the great American art form of the last half century. 

  

Oneof the most important stories in American popular culture . . . Wasson
may be the first author to explain [improv’s] entire history . . . For that reason alone, it’s a valuable book.” — New York Times Book Review 

  

“A compelling history . . . It holds the element of surprise—true to the spirit of its subject.” — Entertainment Weekly

Año:
2017
Editorial:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
464
ISBN 10:
0544558251
ISBN 13:
9780544558250
Archivo:
EPUB, 23.74 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2017
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