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Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor

Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor

Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor
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Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor Paperback - 2022

by Bell, Art

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Ulysses Press, 11/15/2022 12:00:01. paperback. Good. 0.7087 in x 8.8976 in x 5.9843 in.
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  • Title Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor
  • Author Bell, Art
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ulysses Press
  • Publication date 11/15/2022 12:00:01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000709487
  • ISBN 9781646044412 / 164604441X
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.67 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.70 cm)
  • Size 0.7087 in x 8.8976 in x 5.9843 i
  • Category Pop Arts / Pop Culture
  • Library of Congress subjects Autobiographies, Television producers and directors - United
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2020936436
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
  • Quantity available 1
  • Bookseller catalogues Book

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From the publisher

Discover the riveting, hilarious true story of the birth of Comedy Central in what New York Times bestselling author, Dan Lyons, calls the "funniest behind-the-scenes memoir I've ever read, full of crazy characters, plot twists, and suspense."

Award-Winning Finalist in the Narrative: Non-Fiction category of the 2020 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest

In 1988, a young, mid-level employee named Art Bell pitched a novel concept--a television channel focused 100% on just one thing: comedy--to the chairman of HBO. The station that would soon become Comedy Central, with celebrated programs like South Park, Chapelle's Show, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report, was born.

Constant Comedy takes readers behind the scenes into the comedy startup on its way to becoming one of the most successful and creative purveyors of popular culture in the United States. From disastrous pitch meetings with comedians to the discovery of talents like Bill Maher and Jon Stewart, this intimate biography peers behind the curtain and reveals what it's really like to work, struggle, and ultimately succeed at the cutting edge of show business.

About the author

Art Bell is a writer and former television executive known for developing and launching the Comedy Channel (later Comedy Central) while at HBO; and, as president of Court TV, overseeing daily live courtroom coverage and the production of hundreds of hours of original true-crime television series, documentaries, and movies. His memoir Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor, was a finalist in the 2020 Best Book Awards in both the memoir and business categories. Bell has had short stories, nonfiction, and satire published in several journals, including Lowestoft Chronicle, Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature, The Ocotillo Review, Fiction Southeast, Castabout Arts and Literature, High Shelf Press, and Writers Read. What She's Hiding is his first novel. Bell lives with his wife, Carrie, in Park City, Utah.

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