Flip
Subtitle: the inside story of TV's first Black superstar
By: Kevin Cook
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780670025701
Subjects: Television personalities; African American television personalities; Comedians; Biography; African American comedians
Description: Chronicles Wilson's meteoric rise through the Chitlin' Circuit of segregated nightclubs to his breakthrough on Johnny Carson's Tonight show to his hit variety show, on which he created such outrageous characters as the sassy Geraldine and flock-fleecing Reverend Leroy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Killer ride; title: Rags. Jersey City runaway ; He flippeth! ; Look at the lights ; Circuit rider ; Miami vise ; Flip flops; title: Riches. Surprises ; One giant leap ; Thursday night lights ; Top of the world ; Crossroads; title: Liberty. Looking for the why ; Flip out ; God's fool ; Naked in the wind; title: Epilogue: Back to the beach.