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The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue

The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue

Author: Robert Klein

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

ISBN: 9781439144367

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 384

View: 234

Dear Reader, When we asked the beloved award-winning comedian and actor Robert Klein to write a book, you can imagine our utter surprise when he told us that he wanted to write about sixth-century Chinese pottery. Thankfully, he hit a creative brick wall (since he doesn't really know anything about pottery from China or anywhere else). Then came similar failures to write books about sea turtles, circumnavigation of the globe, building jet engines at home, the sociology of chickens, or fungi of the skin. Luckily, Mr. Klein's paramount concern was the consumer. He knew that if we, his publishers, were going to boldly ask you to purchase his book (see above for price), he would have to write something so good, so worthwhile, so meaningful as to make you want to send additional money to your bookseller in gratitude for having allowed you to partake in this reading experience. So Mr. Klein set out to write about what he knows best: himself. This book is about the adventures of a child who becomes a young man: how he thinks and dreams and lusts and fears and laughs and handles adversity. From the beginning of his distinguished career as a comedian, Robert Klein established himself as a pioneer in observational humor and razor-sharp routines that are infectiously funny. Now -- for the first time -- Klein brings his trademark humor and honesty to the printed page. In this portrait of a comic as a young man, Klein takes us back to the people and streets of his Bronx neighborhood, the eccentric cast of characters in the Catskills hotels and bungalow colonies where he worked, the college dorms where he received more than an academic education, the 1964 World's Fair where he fell in love, New York City and Chicago in the 1960s as he developed his talent, and Los Angeles just as he was about to embark on a show business career. Throughout, Klein reveals the hilarity of growing up and explores the mysteries and his own foibles in sex and relationships. He recounts with wit and poignancy losing his virginity with a prostitute, bringing home a German girlfriend to his Jewish family, and the amorous adventures of the busboy he once was. With an ego more fragile than Chinese pottery, Robert Klein has written a funny and evocative coming-of-age memoir -- well worth the price (if we say so ourselves). Enjoy. All the best, The Publisher
The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue
Language: en
Pages: 384

The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue

Authors: Robert Klein
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-14 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Dear Reader, When we asked the beloved award-winning comedian and actor Robert Klein to write a book, you can imagine our utter surprise when he told us that he wanted to write about sixth-century Chinese pottery. Thankfully, he hit a creative brick wall (since he doesn't really know anything about
Boulevard of Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 274

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Authors: Constance Rosenblum
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-18 - Publisher: NYU Press

Presents a history of the thoroughfare designed by Louis Aloys Risse that spans over four miles through the center of the West Bronx, the Grand Boulevard, and Concourse and explores the various aspects of Jewish communal life near the boulevard.
Teaching Class Clowns (And What They Can Teach Us)
Language: en
Pages: 128

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Authors: William W. Purkey, William Watson Purkey
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-23 - Publisher: Corwin Press

'?"A challenging opportunity for the teacher to capitalize on this all-too-often overlooked student." ?Donald W. Russell, Professor Emeritus and Acting Dean School of Education, University of North Carolina, Greensboro "Offers much needed fresh air and insightful messages." ?John J. Schmidt, Professor of Counselor EducationEast Carolina University "For a class clown,
A Vulgar Art
Language: en
Pages: 240

A Vulgar Art

Authors: Ian Brodie
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-29 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

In A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, engaging the discipline’s central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance. Because stand-up comedy is a rather broad category, people who study it often begin by relating it to something they recognize—“literature” or “theatre”; “editorial” or
Kvetching and Shpritzing
Language: en
Pages: 248

Kvetching and Shpritzing

Authors: Joseph Dorinson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-03 - Publisher: McFarland

Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture. Scholars of humor—from Sigmund Freud to Woody Allen—have studied the essence of the Jewish joke, at once a defense mechanism against a hostile world and a means of cultural affirmation. Where did this wit originate? Why

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