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Product Description: The first biography of the beloved entertainer who broke the prime-time color barrier When The Flip Wilson Show debuted in 1970, black faces were still rare on television and black hosts nonexistent. Then came Flip—to instant acclaim...read more
Hardcover:
9780670025701 | Viking Pr, April 18, 2013, cover price $26.95
Paperback:
9780142180754 | Reprint edition (Plume, February 25, 2014), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: The first biography of the beloved entertainer who broke the prime-time color barrier When The Flip Wilson Show debuted in 1970, black faces were still rare on television and black hosts nonexistent.
CD/Spoken Word:
9781470881252 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 18, 2013), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: [MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.
9781470881276 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 18, 2013), cover price $29.95
Product Description: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case.] The rags-to-riches story of a groundbreaking, beloved entertainer. When The Flip Wilson Show debuted in 1970, black faces were still rare on television, black hosts nonexistent. So how did Clerow ''Flip'' Wilson go from Jersey City grade-school dropout to national celebrity, heralded on the cover of Time as ''TV's first black superstar''? Flip is a candid, entertaining biography of a consummate comedian who changed the face of American popular culture...read more
CD/Spoken Word:
9781470881283, titled "Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, April 18, 2013), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: [Library Edition Audiobook CD in vinyl case.
Paperback:
9780786468874 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, January 14, 2013, cover price $39.95
Hardcover:
9780313380846, titled "Icons of African American Comedy: A Joke of a Different Color" | Greenwood Pub Group, June 2, 2011, cover price $105.00
Product Description: OTHER COMEDIANS TELL JOKES. PAUL MOONEY TELLS THE TRUTH. For more than forty yearsâwhether writing for Richard Pryor and Saturday Night Live or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the countryâPaul Mooney has been provocative, incisive ...read more
Hardcover:
9781416587958 | Simon & Schuster, November 3, 2009, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: OTHER COMEDIANS TELL JOKES.
Paperback:
9781416587965 | 1 reprint edition (Gallery Books, July 6, 2010), cover price $17.99
Miscellaneous:
9781416968535 | Simon & Schuster, November 3, 2009, cover price $9.99
Product Description: The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian. Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose turbulent personal life often mirrors that of his fictional alter ego? Is he Chico Divine, the life of the party--any party, anytime, anywhere, getting ladies pregnant everywhere he goes? Or is he a soulful, tender family man who emerged from a hardscrabble ghetto upbringing and against all odds achieved superstardom, raised a solid family, prevailed over a collection of lethal bad habits, and is still ascending new heights and coming into his own? The answer is: Tracy Morgan is all that...read more
Hardcover:
9780385527774 | 1 edition (Spiegel & Grau, October 20, 2009), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Product Description: The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.Who is Tracy Morgan? The wildly unpredictable funnyman who rocketed to fame on Saturday Night Live? The Emmy-nominated actor behind the sly and ingenious character Tracy Jordan on the award-winning hit sitcom 30 Rock, whose turbulent personal life often mirrors that of his fictional alter ego? Is he Chico Divine, the life of the partyâany party, anytime, anywhereâgetting ladies pregnant everywhere he goes? Or is he a soulful, tender family man who emerged from a hardscrabble ghetto upbringing and, against all odds, achieved superstardom, raised a solid family, prevailed over a collection of lethal bad habits, and is still ascending new heights and coming into his own? The answer is: Tracy Morgan is all that...read more
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9780739381946 | Abridged edition (Random House, October 20, 2009), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The outrageously funny, heartbreaking, and surprising story of Tracy Morgan's rise from ghetto wiseass to superstar comedian.
Product Description: FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to attending the inauguration of President Barack Obama, where he narrowly avoided the Purple Tunnel of Doom but still saw nothing, David Alan Grier examines how he -- and America -- have changed for the better and the funnier...read more
Hardcover:
9781439154922 | Touchstone Books, October 6, 2009, cover price $24.99
Paperback:
9781439156827 | Reprint edition (Touchstone Books, February 23, 2013), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr.
CD/Spoken Word:
9780743597722 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, October 6, 2009), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: FROM GROWING UP IN DETROIT, where he marched as a ten-year-old with Dr.
Library:
9780766028944 | Enslow Elementary, May 1, 2008, cover price $22.60 | About this edition: 'Elementary biography of comedian Chris Rock discussing his childhood, early career, and his rise as one of America's most famous comedians'--Provided by publisher.
Prior to the civil rights movement, comedians performed for audiences that were clearly delineated by race. Black comedians performed for black audiences and white comedians performed for whites. Yet during the past forty-five years, black comics have become progressively more central to mainstream culture. In "Laughing Mad", Bambi Haggins looks at how this transition occurred in a variety of media and shows how this integration has paved the way for black comedians and their audiences to affect each other. Historically, African American performers have been able to use comedy as a pedagogic tool, interjecting astute observations about race relations while the audience is laughing. And yet, Haggins makes the convincing argument that the potential of African American comedy remains fundamentally unfulfilled as the performances of blackness must be made culturally digestible for mass consumption. Rather than presenting biographies of individual performers, Haggins focuses on the ways in which the comic persona is constructed and changes across media, from stand-up, to the small screen, to film. She examines the comic televisual and cinematic personae of Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, Flip Wilson, and Richard Pryor and considers how these figures set the stage for black comedy in the next four decades. She reads Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock as emblematic of the first and second waves of post - civil rights era African American comedy, and she looks at the socio-cultural politics of Whoopi Goldberg's comic persona through the lens of gender and crossover. "Laughing Mad" also explores how the comedy of Dave Chappelle speaks to and for the post-soul generation. A rigorous analytic analysis, this book interrogates notions of identity, within both the African American community and mainstream popular culture. Written in engaging and accessible prose, it is also a book that will travel from the seminar room, to the barbershop, to the kitchen table, allowing readers to experience the sketches, stand-up, and film comedies with all the laughter they deserve.
Hardcover:
9780813539843 | Rutgers Univ Pr, March 15, 2007, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: Prior to the civil rights movement, comedians performed for audiences that were clearly delineated by race.
Paperback:
9780813539850 | Rutgers Univ Pr, March 15, 2007, cover price $27.95
Library:
9780791092255 | Chelsea House Pub, August 1, 2006, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Looks at the life and career of the popular comedian, actor, and producer.
A successful comedian describes his experiences growing up African American in the white suburbs of San Leandro, California, recalling his difficult childhood in a racist enclave, in a memoir based on his one-man show.
Hardcover:
9781401302337 | 1 edition (Hachette Books, July 11, 2006), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: A successful comedian describes his experiences growing up African American in the white suburbs of San Leandro, California, recalling his difficult childhood in a racist enclave, in a memoir based on his one-man show.
Miscellaneous:
9781401386207 | Hyperion Books, July 11, 2006, cover price $16.95
9781401385705 | Hyperion Books, July 11, 2006, cover price $16.95
9781401385712 | Hyperion Books, July 11, 2006, cover price $16.95
9781401385682 | Hyperion Books, July 11, 2006, cover price $16.95
9781401386214 | Hyperion Books, July 11, 2006, cover price $16.95
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Reveals the complex life and personality of a woman who left a difficult childhood behind to earn success as a comedian and an actress
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Hardcover:
9780735100787 | Replica Books, June 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Reveals the complex life and personality of a woman who left a difficult childhood behind to earn success as a comedian and an actress
Paperback:
9780806521428 | 2 sub edition (Citadel Pr, April 1, 2000), cover price $15.95
Hardcover:
9780836229806 | Andrews McMeel Pub, August 1, 1999, cover price $4.95
The author goes behind the scenes to reveal the complex life and personality of a woman who left a difficult childhood behind to earn success first as a comedian and then an Academy Award-winning actress.
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Hardcover:
9781559724319 | Birch Lane Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Reveals the complex life and personality of a woman who left a difficult childhood behind to earn success as a comedian and an actress
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