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Prologue xi
Chapter 1 1959-61 Coffee and Comedy, Hanging with Hef, and the Birth of a Sensation Alan Arkin Barbara Harris Paul Sills 3
Chapter 2 1961-67 Big Apple Bound, Naked Sonatas, and the Reign of King David Robert Klein Joan Rivers David Steinberg Fred Willard 19
Chapter 3 1967-74 How to Speak Hippie, Return of the Guru, and a Bowl Full of Fuck John Belushi Del Close Bill Murray Harold Ramis Betty Thomas 35
Chapter 4 1973-10 Livin' Large with Johnny Toronto, the Fury of Murray, and Taking Off in the Great White North Dan Aykroyd John Candy Eugene Levy Catherine O'Hara Gilda Radner Martin Short Dave Thomas 65
Chapter 5 1975-84 SCTV: Count Floyd, Johnny LaRue, and a Couple of Hosers, Eh John Candy Joe Flaherty Eugene Levy Rick Moranis Dave Thomas 91
Chapter 6 1975-80 Saturday Night Live, the Brothers Belushi, and a Mom Away from Mom Jim Belushi Tim Kazurinsky Shelley Long George Wendt 114
Chapter 7 1975-85 Mummy Opium, Death of a Hero, and the End of an Era Dan Castellaneta Mary Gross Richard Kind 135
Chapter 8 1978-91 Triumphs in Toronto, Shake-ups in Chicago, and a Van Down by the River Chris Farley Bonnie Hunt Mike Myers 154
Chapter 9 1988-95 Out with the Old, In with the New, and a Sweet Talker in Sweatpants Steve Carell Stephen Colbert Paul Dinello Amy Sedaris 187
Chapter 10 1995-2007 Renaissance on Wells Street, Chaos in Canada, and the Falls of Giants Scott Adsit Rachel Dratch Tina Fey Jack McBrayer 212
Chapter 11 2007-Present Offing Obama, Liberal Leanings, and a Still-Beating Heart 242
Epilogue 247
Acknowledgments 250
Selected Short Biographies of Second Citizens 253
Bibliography 259
Index 265
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Ingrida Ledins
reviewed Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater on July 26, 2015
Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater
One of comedy's three great universities--the others are the Harvard Lampoon and Saturday Night Live--The Second City has been a bastion of all that is bright, showy, and silly-smart in improvisation for the past fifty years.
This oral history is the troupe's literary best-of. The institutional narrative is interesting, the anecdotes are fascinating, and Thomas spoke with almost everyone still alive to tell the tales. (I may be unusual in my disappointment that he didn't get more from Rick Moranis.)
And so my gripe may be unfair. I come away from the book wishing I knew more about choices: between comics (For example, why didn't Jeff Garland make it to mainstage?), between topics, between scenes. Or, more basically, between good and bad comedy. If I had access to everyone interviewed for this book, I'd have ended my conversations with a single question: "What's funny?"
There may be no answer to that question, and Thomas may have asked it, which is why my gripe may be unfair. But it's the only question of any substance that Second City can address, and not exploring it more deeply is a missed opportunity.
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