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The Perfect Amount of Wrong : The Rise of Alt Comedy on Chicago's North Side.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bridenstine, Mike.
- Series:
- The History Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stand-up comedy--Illinois--Chicago--History.
- Comedians--Illinois--Chicago.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2023.
- Summary:
- In just over a decade, a tiny, do-it-yourself stand-up scene on the North Side of Chicago produced some of the most successful and influential stand-up comedians of their generation. Hannibal Buress, T.J. Miller, Kyle Kinane, Cameron Esposito, Pete Holmes, Beth Stelling, Matt Braunger and Kumail Nanjiani make up a partial list of names of comics who emerged from a scene that had very little industry attention--or even a home club. It was also a scene that took a backseat to the city's vaunted improv institution, and if we're being completely honest, it was a scene where comics mostly performed to drunks in the backs of dingy bars on their off nights. None of it was glamorous. None of it should have worked at all. But somehow, some way, the comedians from this scene have managed to etch their own names into the Chicago comedy pantheon. The Perfect Amount of Wrong is the story of that scene, as told by its veterans.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword, by Pete Holmes
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Intro
- 1. Genesis
- 2. The Comedy Asylum
- 3. The Elevated (Beginnings)
- 4. The Red Lion (Beginnings)
- 5. Midnight Bible School
- 6. Piñata Full of Bees
- 7. Anti-Comedy
- 8. The End of the Red Lion
- 9. The Festival
- 10. The Anti-Festival
- 11. Dwayne
- 12. The Den (Beginnings)
- 13. Kro
- 14. The Lincoln Lodge (Beginnings)
- 15. The Den (Peak)
- 16. 2004 (Beginnings)
- 17. A Whole Dave Odd Chapter
- 18. ChUC
- 19. 2006
- 20. The Elevated (End)
- 21. 2007
- 22. Exodus
- 23. Blerds (End)
- Outro
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bridenstine, Mike The Perfect Amount of Wrong
- ISBN:
- 9781439679067
- 1439679061
- OCLC:
- 1417195298
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