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My first impression after putting down this surprisingly impressive book of interviews with legendary comedians of the early to mid 20th century is how great an interviewer Larry Wilde was. Its clear from the responses and reactions that he got from these almost untouchable figures that they were just as impressed, maybe even taken aback. Wilde knew, and still knows (as of 2016 the 88-year-old author is still with us) the history and craft of comedy at least as well as the people he interviewed, and the result is a timeless Ur-text that still holds great value for anyone interested in the history of entertainment, comedy or in the particular art of stand-up. Even in our era of rawer, edgier comedians like Bill Burr and Louis C.K., budding comics could learn a lot from the more genteel, vintage practitioners of the art.As it happens, The Great Comedians Talk About Comedy, is a very old book, first published in 1968, and of the 16 comedians featured therein, only four are still living as of May 2016. Wilde produced an updated edition a few years back that added Jerry Seinfeld, but my public library still only had the original edition, so I was not able to peruse the added material.Thats hardly relevant, really, because Wilde achieved something I dont think anyone else had or has since, simply by gathering together a cast of comedy legends this distinguished. The effort alone in arranging these interviews must have been herculean.At the time, there was only one female stand-up comedian in the business, Phyllis Diller (although Joan Rivers was starting to make strides and was mentioned herein), and her story of making it in an all-male comedy fraternity during the pre-liberation era makes for fascinating reading. Wilde caps his book with the oldest and probably the most admired comedian from the days of vaudeville, Ed Wynn, a man who virtually all the other comedians in the book pay homage to. Its an appropriate nod and also valuable, because in addition to the inclusion of Wynn the books coverage of other very old great grey eminences of comedy would be the last chance to catch them on the record for posterity. (Wynn died just months after this interview).So, simply as an oral history -- capturing the words, wisdom and historical reminiscences of the standard-bearers of a lost era of show business -- the book is gem, in addition to containing what are still very cogent insights into the nature of the comic art. Those insights have not dated and still have the power to enlighten, even if the styles of comedy practiced by many of the subjects in this book have receded into oblivion.The most impressive interview in the book, perhaps surprisingly, was that with Joey Bishop, a machine-gun lightning wit who made his name as part of the Rat Pack, and who I remember with fondness as one of the best guest hosts for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show back in the 70s. In this interview, Bishop comes off as one of the most thoughtful practitioners of comedy, a virtual philosopher king of the art.Along the way, the cast of this book includes -- quite impressively -- Bob Hope, George Burns, Jerry Lewis, Johnny Carson, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Jimmy Durante, George Jessel, among others, along with then-members of the comic new guard, Woody Allen, Dick Gregory, Shelley Berman (very interesting, and an unjustly forgotten comic innovator) and more. The inclusion of some of the people herein, such as Maurice Chevalier, might strike some as odd, as one does not really think of him as strictly a comedian, but his inclusion is still valuable in terms of context in tracing the currents of 20th-century entertainment. The French entertainers who influenced Chevalier and others might not otherwise have been touched upon without his inclusion.Chevaliers inclusion also touches on the nature of personality in comedy. Over and over in the book, one of the constant themes is likeability -- that quality that makes one person a star and any other technically competent comedian an also-ran.My reason for checking this book out was mainly a nostalgic one, partly because I remember all of these comedians from TV as a child and felt saddened that most of them have been forgotten by new generations. Another reason, also nostalgic, is that I had checked out this book from my local library decades ago. In fact, I am almost positive that this copy is the exact same one I checked out lo those many years ago. Its one of those library books that has 45-year-old boogers and food and blood stains stuck in the pages. They might be the same boogers and stains that were inside it when I checked this book out 40 years ago when I was a kid. No, I didnt put them in there. I dont use library books as Kleenex. Im pretty sure this is the same copy, which has somehow survived the purges of out-of-fashion stuff that libraries are not above carrying out. Anyway, hopefully, none of this effluvia presents a health hazard anymore.While reading it -- I am not shitting you -- I dropped part of an egg sandwich on something Milton Berle was saying -- which somehow seems entirely appropriate.(KevinR@Ky 2016)
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