Seriously Funny

by Nachman, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9780823047864
• ISBN10: 0823047865
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns

Table of Contents

Setup Lines: Introduction	3	(46)
The 1950s
A Voice in the Wilderness	49	(50)
Mort Sahl
Rendering unto Caesar	99	(24)
Sid Caesar
Sing a Song of Strychnine	123	(28)
Tom Lehrer
The Start of Something Big	151	(27)
Steve Allen
And Now, a Laugh from Our Sponsor	178	(22)
Stan Freberg
Televisionary	200	(11)
Ernie Kovacs
Mom from Mars	211	(26)
Phyllis Diller
The Wild Child	237	(28)
Jonathan Winters
Out of Thin Air	265	(29)
Jean Shepherd
Bob Elliott
Ray Goulding
Call Interrupt	294	(24)
Shelley Berman
Double Jeopardy	318	(45)
Mike Nichols
Elaine May
The 1960s
Charlie Everybody	363	(26)
Bob Newhart
The Elvis of Stand-up	389	(47)
Lenny Bruce
Color-Coordinated	436	(8)
Godfrey Cambridge
Sibling Revelry: The Smothers Brothers	444	(19)
Bawdy and Soul	463	(17)
Mel Brooks
Curing the Body Politic	480	(29)
Dick Gregory
Lasting Impressions	509	(15)
David Frye
Vaughn Meader
Will Jordan
Schnook's Progress	524	(38)
Woody Allen
Father Goose, Inc.	562	(29)
Bill Cosby
Girl Squawk	591	(36)
Joan Rivers
Acknowledgments	627	(2)
Bibliography	629	(3)
Interviews	632	(3)
Index	635