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We're not worthy / Jason Klamm ; foreword by David Wain.

by Klamm, Jason, 1980- author.

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Cleveland, Ohio : 1984 Publishing, [2023]

In living color (Television program)

Mr. Show with Bob and David (Television program)

Sketch comedy television programs -- History and criticism.

Nineteen nineties.

9781948221269 (hardbound) :

1948221268 (hardbound)

366 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Friday night frolic : the birth of sketch comedy on TV -- Stupid human tricks : Late night with David Letterman -- A do-it-yourself movement : The Compass, The Second City, and The Committee -- Sniglets and hedgehog sandwiches : Not necessarily the news -- The show that bumped SNL : Almost live! -- And The Simpsons : The Tracey Ullman show -- Easy to beat up, hard to kill : The Kids in the Hall -- Canadian content : sketch shows from the Great White North -- Poets and geniuses : iO/ImprovOlympic -- Unskied snow : In living color -- A taste that's oddly familiar : The Ben Stiller show -- No time to breathe : the weirder side of 90's sketch -- I am a we and there's eleven of us : The State -- At its best when you were in middle school : Saturday night live -- Gelatinous cube eats village : Wayne's world -- Cookin' with gas : The Groundlings -- It's your fault for watching : Late night with Conan O'Brien -- Performing for snotty rich Anglo brats : House of Buggin' -- The lighter side : MADtv -- Don't do your act : LA's alternative comedy scene -- Devour cowards every hour : Mr. Show with Bob and David -- Too many nipples : The Dana Carvey show -- When improv was illegal : Theatresports and ComedySportz -- Leave them wanting some : one-offs and pilots -- Veal chops in dill sauce : The Bert Fershners -- Staging a comeback : Viva variety -- Not another pineapple : improv comes to TV -- Hit and run comedy : Upright Citizen's Brigade -- ... and the rest : every other sketch show (nearly of the '90s).

"We're Not Worthy is the definitive account of '90s sketch comedy, the decade that forever changed what we laugh at. Author and comedian Jason Klamm goes behind the scenes of more than 50 sketch shows that ruled the''90s, including groundbreaking staples such as In Living Color, MTV's The State, Mr. Show, Kids in the Hall, The Ben Stiller Show, and Mad TV, along with several swiftly canceled gigs (The Dana Carvey Show, anyone?). Each show seemed to launch at least one big name into the stratosphere: The Wayans family, Ben Stiller, Jennifer Coolidge, Amy Poehler, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell, Judd Apatow, Janeane Garofalo ... the list goes on and on. Klamm brings readers back to the '90s comedy landscape like never before, through over 150 new and candid interviews with trailblazers such as Mike Myers, Bob Odenkirk, Carol Burnett, Tommy Davidson, Adam McKay, Dave Thomas, Patton Oswalt, Reno 911!'s Kerri Kenney-Silver, and a litany of additional favorites. Plus the producers, writers, directors, and other insiders that pulled it all together. Steeped with hilarious stories, on-the-set antics, and head-turning television politics, We're Not Worthy is a revealing trip back to the decade that placed comedy on the razor's edge"-- Publisher's description

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