Mixed Nuts: America’s Love Affair, with Comedy Teams From Burns & Allen to Belushi & Aykroyd

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Year: 2004
Pages: 305
Binding Hardcover
ISBN 1586481908

Product Code: 756797756

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Lawrence J. Epstein (au). Provides a lively history of entertainment from early vaudeville through radio, film & TV. Presents the complete story of America’s comedy teams, revisiting some of their best-loved routines, revealing the personal stories that lay behind them, & showing how the comedians shaped & were shaped by their eras. From 19th-century vaudeville to the stars of silent movies, radio, & sitcoms -- comedians like Burns & Allen, Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, Lucille Ball & Vivian Vance, Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis, the Smothers Brothers, the casts of “Friends” & “Seinfeld” & beyond -- it was comedy teams & their witty or wild-eyed routines that have provided wit & wisdom & created a particularly American kind of laughter. Photos.

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