I’m Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand Up Comedy’s Golden Era

In 1972,The Tonight Show moved from New York to Burbank, California and with it went an entire generation of comics, most of whom would go on to become the biggest stars of the comedy boom of the 1980s. In William Knoedelseder’s 2010 book I’m Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-up Comedy’s Golden… Continue reading I’m Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand Up Comedy’s Golden Era