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Title: Make 'Em Laugh

Subtitle: 35 Years of the Comic Strip, the Greatest Comedy Club of All Time!

Author: Jeffrey Gurian, Richie Tieken

Narrator: Brian Eslick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

When you are a kid starting out as a stand-up comic...you dream about the nine oclock spot on Saturday night at the Comic Strip. - Jerry Seinfeld

Once in a lifetime a venue comes along that changes show business dramatically, that fosters growth and camaraderie, experimentation and freedom. The Comic Strip is one of those places, and Make Em Laugh is an inside look at how it all happened, straight from the mouths of the stars who built their careers on its stage. Owner Richie Tienken and a wealth of comics open their hearts and souls to share their most intimate memories, the laughs and tears, the good times and the bad, in order to paint an all-encompassing, behind-the-scenes history of this iconic club. Interviews include famous comedians, such as:

Relive the excitement as these comics explain how they came to belong to the Comic Strip family, and how they went on to enjoy huge careers, bringing laughter to millions of people all over the world. This book is a must for any comedian or comedy lovers library!

Editorial Reviews:

The Comic Strip is a legendary launching-spot for the careers of great comedians, and Make 'Em Laugh shows just how it gained that reputation. Narrator Brian Eslick inhabits both ends of these interviews with comic greats, alternating between journalistic probing and quick-witted replies with ease. Featuring interviews with the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Lisa Lampanelli, Billy Crystal, Paul Reiser, and Ray Romano, Make 'Em Laugh recalls career beginnings, highs, and lows, documenting both the rise of these stars and the growing acclaim for The Comic Strip itself. Revealing and hilarious, this collection is a vital entry in the recording of comic history.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Excellent easy read

Fascinating read about NYC's first comedy clubs

Fascinating read about the original NYC Comedy Clubs and the struggling-at-first comedians who are now big. I particularly liked the format of the book, with intros by Guran, and entire chapters written by the Masters themselves in their own words -like Jerry Seinfeld. It was a book that needed to be written, and although I have read others, i.e Dangerfield's bio, I loved the all-embracing concept of this book.

As Bob Saget said on the back cover: "No one says 'No' to Jeffrey Gurian" ... and now I see why!

What makes this book so perfect is that Gurian himself has been a member of the Comic Strip's family throughout the years. Gurian is not just a writer, interviewer or a mere acquaintance but in the inner circle of many, many comedians in this book. He's also an accomplished comic, so he knows which questions to ask, and how to ask them not only to make the book entertaining, but to capture the essence of each person. Gurian doesn't just know them as superstars - he knows their back story, and knows many of them as friends. He's unbelievably good at drawing out the essence of each person in only a few pages, or, from a single selected joke, as he did in a celebrity joke book he wrote based on his writings for the famed Friars Roasts, appropriately titled "Filthy, Funny and Totally Offensive: Jokes So Dirty Comedians and Entertainers Only Tell Them to Each Other." I want to devour anything and everything Gurian writes.