{"id":4790,"date":"2009-11-03T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2009-10-21T10:40:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T16:40:30","slug":"im-dying-up-here-by-william-knoedelseder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/im-dying-up-here-by-william-knoedelseder\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Dying Up Here by William Knoedelseder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2155170\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?isbn=9781586483173\/mc.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"123\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a>Died, killed, slayed&#8230;these comedy concepts are many and nebulous.\u00a0 They do not detract, however, from the chronicling in <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|2155170\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m Dying up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy&#8217;s Golden Era<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by William Knoedelseder.\u00a0 We get late 70&#8217;s snapshots in time of the rise (some meteoric, some not) of fresh-faced twentysomethings from all over the country dead-set on staking their claim in the stand-up comedy gold rush.<\/p>\n<p>We meet a big-chinned pipe-wielding kid out of Boston College named Jay Leno and a young Indiana ex-weatherman Dave Letterman (turns out management didn&#8217;t like his wisecracks during weathercasts).\u00a0 Three decades ago they were friends, galvanized through the common cause of working pro-bono for comedy tastemaker Mitzi Shore in her Hollywood clubs.\u00a0 Some of these bell-bottomed quipsters achieved the ultimate goal of sharing a two-shot with Johnny Carson.\u00a0 Some experienced the kind of bohemian poverty that would shock a college student on Ramen noodles.\u00a0 Still others among these clowns exhibited the kind of offstage sadness that got them into rehab clinics and cemeteries.<\/p>\n<p>This work tells the kind of unflattering after-closing stories that keep the pages turning.\u00a0 I wish there were more photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Died, killed, slayed&#8230;these comedy concepts are many and nebulous.\u00a0 They do not detract, however, from the chronicling in I&#8217;m Dying up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy&#8217;s Golden Era by William Knoedelseder.\u00a0 We get late 70&#8217;s snapshots in time of the rise (some meteoric, some not) of fresh-faced<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/im-dying-up-here-by-william-knoedelseder\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[524,883,882],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-comedy","tag-comics","tag-stand-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1fg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}