Make 'Em Laugh (The Funny Business of America)
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Funsters, The
| Author: | James Robert Parish & William T. Leonard, with Gregory W. Mank & Charles Hoyt |
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| Hardback: | 752 pages |
| Publisher: | Arlington House (1979) |
| Avg. Rating: |   [5.00/10] |
| In Print? | No |
The Three Stooges receive a 10-page chapter in the author’s extensive text examining hundreds of movie comedians and comics. Although not a particular fan of the boys, Parish is respectful and objectively discusses their contributions and legacy to movie comedy.
From the dust cover:
"They could pop up in any movie, as plumbers or secretaries or bank tellers; as wives or husbands or (would-be) lovers. They could be pompous or scatterbrained. What they all shared in common was a genius for making funny faces at life. They made us laugh at our world, and ourselves. They are The Hollywood Funsters: the comics, the clowns, and the jesters of the Silver Screen.
Their ranks include Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jack Benny, Phyllis Diller, Woody Allen, Jimmy Durante, The Three Stooges, and dozens more. Now the funniest men and women the world has ever known have a reference volume worthy of their outsized talents."
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