Title: Chicago comedy : a fairly serious history /
Authors: Hicks, Margaret, 1970-
Publisher: History Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Stand-up comedy Illinois Chicago HIstory.; Comedians Illinois Chicago Biography.; Theater Illinois Chicago History.; Improvisation (Acting); Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) Illinois Chicago History.; Radio comedies Illinois Chicago History and criticism.; Television comedies Illinois Chicago History and criticism.
Contents: Foreword / by Mick Napier -- Introduction -- A history lesson -- The savage tamed -- If you build it, they will come -- Gonna be a hot time in the old town tonight -- The phoenix -- On the road -- The mediums -- The sickness -- A stage, a chair, a suggestion -- Truth in comedy -- It goes up to eleven -- The paper wars -- The bridge -- Back to the future -- Epilogue.