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Behind the laughter : a comedian's tale of tragedy and hope / Anthony Griffith and Brigitte Travis-Griffin, with Mark Caro.

by Griffith, Anthony, author.

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Nashville, Tennessee : W Publishing Group, an imprint of Thomas Nelson, [2019]

Griffith, Anthony.

Comedians -- United States -- Biography.

African American comedians -- Biography.

Daughters -- United States -- Death.

Fathers and daughters -- United States.

9780785219507 (hardcover) :

0785219501 (hardcover) :

viii, 215 pages ; 24 cm

Prologue: standing on the star -- Losing the straitjacket -- Finding laughter and love -- Living in black and white -- Moving up and out -- Star-and soul-searching -- Patient and profiled -- Rising stars -- Road to "Tonight" -- The first "Tonight" set -- No one wants to know the jester's pain -- The second "Tonight" set -- The final days -- The aftermath -- The third "Tonight" set -- The zombie march -- Pump the brakes -- One more thing -- Finding our voices -- Catharsis -- The last reveal -- Ties bound tight.

"A couple's powerful story of how God comforts us so that we can comfort others. Anthony Griffith, a stand-up comic from Chicago's South Side, has lived on the borderline of comedy and tragedy. At the very time his career as a stand-up comedian was taking off, and he had finally achieved his dream of appearing on The Tonight Show, he was also enduring an unimaginable personal nightmare: his two-year-old daughter, Brittany Nicole, was dying from cancer. While Anthony performed under bright lights, he struggled not to succumb to the darkness of losing a child"--

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