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Funnymen

Funnymen

Funnymen
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Funnymen Paperback - 2003

by Ted Heller

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What Woody Allen did for Broadway in "Broadway Danny Rose, " the author of the critically acclaimed "Slab Rat" does for nightclubs, Hollywood, the Catskills, and the early days of live TV in a wildly inventive novel about a Martin and Lewis-like comedy duo from the 1940s and 1950s.

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Scribner, 2003. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions.
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  • Title Funnymen
  • Author Ted Heller
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Scribner Tra
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Scribner, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2003
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0743235002I3N00
  • ISBN 9780743235006 / 0743235002
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.16 x 5.24 x 0.88 in (20.73 x 13.31 x 2.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Humorous fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Sigmund "Ziggy" Blissman isn't the best-looking, sanest boy in the world. Far from it. But this misfit child of a failed husband-and-wife vaudeville team has one thing going for him: He can crack people up just by batting his eyelashes. Vittorio "Vic" Fontana, the son of a fisherman, can barely carry a tune or even stay awake while attempting to, but he, too, has one thing going for him: Women love to look at him. On their own, these two men are failures. But one summer night in the Catskills, Ziggy and Vic step onstage and together become the funniest men -- and hottest act -- in America.
Written as a fictional oral history and filled with more than seventy memorable characters, Funnymen is the wildly inventive story of "Fountain and Bliss," the comedy duo that delighted America in the 1940s and 1950s. The episodes recounted here by managers, wives, children, mistresses, friends, fans, and foes -- and the truths Heller reveals about human ambition, egotism, and friendship -- make Funnymen not only a masterpiece of storytelling, but also a thoroughly hilarious read.

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ARNIE LATCHKEY [co-manager of Fountain and Bliss]: It's sad to say, but the funniest that Harry and Flo Blissman ever were was on the night that they were too dead to perform.

About the author

Ted Heller is the photo editor and a senior writer at Nickelodeon magazine and is a contributing writer for GQ. He lives in New York.

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