A Funny Time to Be Gay
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In A Funny Time to Be Gay, Ed Karvoski Jr. traces the evolution of gay and lesbian comedy from the few pioneers in New York's Greenwich Village in the seventies, to the mavericks who played San Francisco's famed Valencia Rose in the eighties, to the comics who starred in their own TV specials in the nineties and continue to headline comedy clubs. Among the more than 30 humorists spotlighted... - TOM AMMIANO - longtime San Francisco elected official - JUDY CARTER - three-time author including The Homo Handbook - KATE CLINTON - three-time author including Don't Get Me Started - SABRINA MATTHEWS - star of own Comedy Central special - BOB SMITH - three-time author including Openly Bob and star of own HBO special - JASON STUART - frequent TV guest appearances - ROBIN TYLER - performer, producer and proprietor of a women's cruise line - SUZANNE WESTENHOEFER - star of own HBO special - DANNY WILLIAMS - longtime MC at RSVP Cruises ... and more "To the next generation of showbiz hopefuls who are gay or lesbian and choose not to hide it: make a grand entrance onto the comedy-club stages and television and film studios. The closet door has been set ajar. As any of these openly gay and lesbians comics will tell you, 'A funny thing happened on the way out of the closet '"
-- Ed Karvoski Jr., from author's introduction
-- Ed Karvoski Jr., from author's introduction
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0684818965
ISBN13:9780684818962
Release Date:January 1997
Publisher:Gallery Books
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.73 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Entertaining and informational
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
"Gay stand-up comedy is not just alive and well these days but flourishing in a big way, as Ed Karvoski Jr. proves in his recent book, A FUNNY TIME TO BE GAY. ... The interviews that precede the monologues are not only entertaining, but informational. ... There are no closets in Karvoski's book, just page after page of humor and a very good read." -- Lester Strong, BALTIMORE GAY PAPER
Funny and fun
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
"A FUNNY TIME TO BE GAY is as funny as it is fun to read." -- Gregg Shapiro, OUTLINES
Laugh all the way through
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
"This is one of the few books I've been able to read and laugh all the way through. Get it!" -- Bill Kaiser, ON THE PURPLE CIRCUIT
Historical perspective
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
"What sets A FUNNY TIME TO BE GAY apart from the ever-increasing number of gay comedy books out there is that it chronicles the rise of gay stand-up and gives it some historical perspective." -- J.S. Hall, BAY WINDOWS
Informative, welll thought-out
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
"For the most part, Karvoski lets these hilarious comics speak for themselves, but his introductions are informative, well thought-out, and actually trace a telling line through the relatively new phenomenon of gay stand-up comedy." -- Jim Gifford, THE PINK PAGES
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