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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Jay Leno
Prologue
Introduction
PART ONE
Chapter 1 Growing Up Fatherless and Struggling to Find My Way
Chapter 2 Broadway Bound and the Unexpected Detour
Chapter 3 Building the House That Built Hilarity
Chapter 4 Flying by the Seat of My Pants
Chapter 5 The Improv Gets Hot
Chapter 6 A Future Film Legend Wanders into West 44th Street and I Nearly Produce My First Show
Chapter 7 The Singing Waitresses
Chapter 8 Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland . . . Onstage at the Improv
Chapter 9 Not So Blown Away by Bette Midler . . . at First
Chapter 10 Comedians Start Coming to the Improv
Chapter 11 The Anointment of King Richard
PART TWO
Chapter 12 Revelry and Rivalry
Chapter 13 Stiller and Meara
Chapter 14 More Momentum, My Monocle—and Lily Tomlin’s Grand Entrance
Chapter 15 The One and Only Rodney Dangerfield
Chapter 16 Robert Klein Elevates Stand-Up—and the Improv—to a New Level
Chapter 17 Locking Horns with David Brenner
Chapter 18 Richard Lewis
Chapter 19 The Hippest Room in America
Chapter 20 The Improv’s Gentle Giant
Chapter 21 The Improv and The Tonight Show
Chapter 22 A Tale of Two Comedy Clubs
Chapter 23 Meeting Jay
Chapter 24 Producing My First Show
PART THREE
Chapter 25 Expansion
Chapter 26 My Early California Adventures
Chapter 27 Andy Kaufman Turns Stand-Up Upside Down
Chapter 28 Dissing Larry David
Chapter 29 A Tsunami Named Robin
Chapter 30 Comedy’s Tragic Prinze
Chapter 31 A Troubling Nemesis Named Mitzi Shore
Chapter 32 Going Up in Flames
Chapter 33 Old Enemies and New Beginnings
PART FOUR
Chapter 34 An Evening at the Improv
Chapter 35 The Improv Explodes . . . and the Stakes Get Even Higher
Chapter 36 The Comedy Boom Busts and Finding Fallon
Chapter 37 Passing the Baton and Looking Ahead: The Early 2000s to the Present
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors
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