Radio Comedy

by Arthur Frank Wertheim

Book Overview

Radio Comedy is a fascinating journey into the recent past of American popular culture, an exploration of radio's Golden Age of humor. Bringing together excerpts from the transcripts of shows that helped define a period, and offering many rare studio photographs, it brings to life once again the excitement that radio generated among American audiences of the 30s and 40s. Wertheim recaptures the uproarious comedy of Amos 'n' Andy, Jack Benny, Fred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195079183
• ISBN13: 9780195079180
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.1"