Excerpts from "The Comedians" by Kilph Nesteroff, part 2

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Mon, 05/20/2019 - 11:00pm to Tue, 05/21/2019 - 12:00am

We continue with more readings from the book by Kilph Nesteroff, "The Comedians; Drunks, Thieves Scoundrels and the History of American Comedy" This month we cover the rise of Las Vegas and the change that comedy went through in the late 1950's with the work of Lenny Bruce and Mort Sahl.

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