The Letter man :
Material type: TextPublication details: Nigeria Premium Times Books 2022 Edition: First editionDescription: 466 illustrationsISBN: 9789787943380; 00Subject(s): Television personalities | Comedians | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY | PERFORMING ARTS | Comedians | Television personalitiesDDC classification: 791.4502/8092Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | DT515.83.O23 .M65 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0165548 | |
Books | Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). | DT515.83.O23 .M65 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0165549 | |
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Part I: Education of a talk-show host, 1947-1979. Shock jock ; When David met Merrill -- Part II: The anti-talk show, 1980-1984. The art of stupid ; Not tonight ; The Harvard takeover -- Part III: The archangel of irony, 1984-1987. The founding fathers of late night ; The writer under the stairs ; The Letterman generation ; The two Daves -- Part IV: Writer's block, 1988-1993. Comedy is not pretty! ; Meg and Mom -- Part V: The very big show, 1993-2015. The agony of victory ; The Oscar myth ; Hinky ; More fun than humans should be allowed to have.
In a career spanning more than thirty years, Letterman redefined the modern talk show with an ironic comic style that transcended traditional television. Yet he is a remote, even reclusive, figure whose career is widely misunderstood. Zinoman goes behind the scenes of Letterman's television career to illuminate the origins of his revolutionary comedy, its overlooked influences, and how his work intersects with and reveals his famously eccentric personality.
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