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Jeff Abraham
Jeff Abraham is an American publicist, comedy historian and author. His book, '' The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage'', was written with Burt Kearns, and published on September 3, 2019, by Chicago Review Press. Career As a publicist, Abraham has represented many comedy projects and comedians, including George Carlin and David Brenner. He has been a research consultant to authors and documentarians, and his Abraham Comedy Archives, a voluminous comedy album collection, has been a resource to writers and filmmakers alike. He is a prolific podcast and radio guest, and in 2022, he was featured in the Emmy award-winning HBO documentary series,''George Carlin's American Dream''. Abraham has conducted interviews for The Archive of American Television and worked closely with the Paley Center for Media. He is on the advisory board of the National Comedy Center. As an author and comedy historian, he is completing the first authoriz ...
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The Show Won't Go On
''The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage'' is a 2019 nonfiction book written by Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns. It is the first comprehensive study of the phenomenon of performers who died onstage, or were stricken onstage and died soon after. The book was published on 3 September 2019 by Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press, or CRP, is a U.S. book publisher and an independent company founded in 1973. Chicago Review Press publishes approximately 60 new titles yearly under eight imprints: Chicago Review Press, Lawrence Hill Books, Academy Chicago, ... under its A Cappella Books imprint. ''The Show Won't Go On'' covers the deaths of performers both famous and obscure, grouped into performing arts genres, including theatre, comedy, magic and escape artistry, dance, classical music, opera, rock 'n' roll, hip hop, country music, gospel music, jazz, international pop music, television, radio, social media, vaudeville and the ...
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Ritz Brothers
The Ritz Brothers were an American family comedy act who performed extensively on stage, in nightclubs and in films from 1925 to the late 1960s. A fourth brother, George, acted as their manager. Early life The four brothers were born to Austrian-born Jewish haberdasher Max Joachim and his wife Pauline, only three of them performed together. They also had a sister Gertrude. All three brothers were born in Newark, New Jersey. The family name was Joachim (pronounced "jo-ACK-him", Harry explained on a Joe Franklin TV interview), but the eldest brother Al, a vaudeville dancer, adopted a new professional name after he saw the name "Ritz" on the side of a laundry truck. Jimmy and Harry followed suit when the brothers formed a team. The Ritzes emphasized precision dancing in their act, and added comedy material as they went along. By the early 1930s they were stage headliners. Movie career In 1934 Educational Pictures, producers of short subjects, hired "The Three Ritz Brothers" to ma ...
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American Comedy Writers
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American Consulting Businesspeople
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American Publicists
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American Male Writers
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Living People
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Year Of Birth Missing (living People)
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropical and subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the seasonal tropics, the annual wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, as do the Julian calendars. For the Gregorian calendar, the average length of the calendar year (the ...
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National Comedy Center
The National Comedy Center is an American museum dedicated to comedy. The museum and its archives are located in Lucille Ball’s hometown of Jamestown, New York. The museum documents the history of comedy and the artists, producers, writers, cartoonists, and other notable figures who have influenced its development in the US. It was designated as the United States' official cultural institution and museum dedicated to comedy by the United States Congress on February 26, 2019. The museum includes more than 50 immersive experiences through comedy history, from early vaudeville acts to viral memes. Visitors have a ‘humor profile’ created on entry and stored on an RFID wristband called a ‘Laugh Band’. Content is then presented according to individual tastes, from broad slapstick to edgy satire. Along with educational games and competitions, guests can also create their own comedic content with interactive activities like performing stand-up, recreating iconic funny faces, a ...
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