Before Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields American comedy was innocent. After they left their hilarious smudges on the genre, comedy was anything but. Here in a captivating book comparing and contrasting these two premier American comics is the history of how flimflam came to prevail as a major comic form. These two comic geniuses excelled at a new brand of shtick, antiheroic humor that killed off the tame demeanor of their many predecessors in show business. By derailing the comedy oof innocence, Groucho and Fields brought film comedy to its Golden Age.
- ISBN13 9781934110959
- Publish Date 30 November 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University Press of Mississippi
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English