Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America
Melding performance, biography and history, this features interviews with over 90 comedians, writers, producers, and historians.
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- Ep 1
1.Nerds, Jerks & Oddballs: Would Ya Hit a Guy with Glasses?
14-01-200960mThis episode looks back at the bespectacled wannabe (Harold Lloyd) and the vain coward (Bob Hope) as the outsiders of their day. Along with pioneering women in comedy like Phyllis...
- Ep 2
2.Breadwinners and Homemakers: Honey, I'm Home!
14-01-200960m - Ep 3
3.The Knockabouts: Slip on a Banana Peel
21-01-200960mPhysical comedy and slapstick have always found rich soil in America. From the mastery of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to the computer-generated antics that helped transform J...
- Ep 4
4.The Groundbreakers: When I'm Bad, I'm Better
21-01-200960mIn the ongoing war against hypocrisy, conservatism, political correctness, prejudice, prudery, censorship, sentimentality, liberalism, extremism, and complacency, it was always the...
- Ep 5
5.The Wiseguys: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
28-01-200960mAmerica loves the wiseguy who defies convention by speaking the truth no matter the consequences. Whether in the form of the curmudgeonly W.C. Fields of the 1930s or today’s Larry...
- Ep 6
6.Satire and Parody: Sock It To Me
28-01-200960mAmericans have always loved to make fun of the world around them using the slings and arrows of parody and satire. Whether it was Will Rogers, Johnny Carson, Jon Stewart, and Steph...
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