TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tafoya, Eddie
AU  - Tafoya, Eddie
TI  - The legacy of the wisecrack : : stand-up comedy as the great American literary form
SN  - 9781599424958
U1  - 792.76 TAF 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Boca Raton
PB  -  : BrownWalker Press, 
KW  - Art
KW  -  Sports, games & entertainment
KW  - Stand-up comedy -- United States
KW  - Comedy -- History and criticism
KW  - Comedy
KW  - United States
N1  - "I want a real literature class" --
Dissecting Americanness --
Joke theories --
A stand-up prehistory --
A history of stand-up --
The American (comedic) jeremiad --
Steven Wright and the post-modern Picaresque --
Richard Pryor, American Dante --
Conclusion: the comedic frontier
ER  -