Finding the Funny: My Mad Ride Thru Late-Night Comedy: Regalo Press
Autor Madeleine Smithberg Cu Betsy Blocken Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 apr 2027
For more than four decades, Madeleine Smithberg helped shape the world of late-night comedy from behind the scenes. A three-time Peabody Award winner and Emmy-winning producer, she was instrumental in some of television's most influential late-night comedy programs. From producing outrageous segments for Late Night with David Letterman to helping create and build the original Daily Show, she shares the triumphs, disasters, and unexpected lessons behind some of television's most memorable moments.
Warm, candid, and laugh-out-loud funny, Finding the Funny is both a backstage pass to the evolution of modern comedy and the story of a trailblazing woman who built a remarkable career. Part memoir, part comedy history, and part master class in creative risk-taking, it is an entertaining and inspiring look at what it really takes to find the funny.
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ISBN-13: 9798895657942
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Regalo Press
Colecția Regalo Press
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Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Regalo Press
Colecția Regalo Press
Seria Regalo Press
Notă biografică
Madeleine Smithberg just might be the most influential woman in late-night comedy you’ve never heard of. She earned three Peabody’s and an Emmy Award for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, which she co-created and ran as executive producer for seven years. During her time at TDS she hired Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, and Mo Rocca based on her legendary gut for talent, and was instrumental in bringing onboard Jon Stewart, Ed Helms, Rob Corddry, and Lewis Black, among others. The format that she and her team built more than 30 years ago helped change the way college students get their news and is still as relevant today as it has ever been.
Before that, she spent six years as a talent coordinator, then producer, for NBC’s original Late Night with David Letterman, which she considers her “comedy graduate school.” The segment featuring a rhesus monkey in a blue satin dress attacking David Letterman may be the high point of her career.
As a producer, Madeleine has spent the past four decades making other people funny. Now it is time for her to tell us how she’s done it.
Before that, she spent six years as a talent coordinator, then producer, for NBC’s original Late Night with David Letterman, which she considers her “comedy graduate school.” The segment featuring a rhesus monkey in a blue satin dress attacking David Letterman may be the high point of her career.
As a producer, Madeleine has spent the past four decades making other people funny. Now it is time for her to tell us how she’s done it.
Recenzii
“Madeleine’s pioneering life in comedy is a lot like her laugh: full-throated, uncensored, involves real tears—wait, is she actually crying?—messy, totally unladylike, and absolutely glorious. (I hope there's an audiobook version, because you really need to hear her laugh.)
“Smithberg took a chance, hiring an unknown, untested, aspiring actor from the Chicago Theater scene. It was his biggest break and it changed his career forever. But enough about Stephen Colbert. She hired me right after that, and I owe her a lot.”
“Madeleine Smithberg was a talent coordinator for my earliest television shows. She had a fine eye for all things strange and startling. She proved the “what” was more important than the “who”. Or maybe it was the other way around. Either way, it was Madeleine’s unique guest bookings that got people’s attention in those early days. We all loved her brain and her energy and her Rolodex (Google it). Turns out she’s also a good storyteller. I know you’ll enjoy this book.”
“Madeleine’s rise from affable and effective staffer on Letterman to the creator of one of the most influential television shows in the history of political comedy is the stuff of legend. “How did she do it?” one might ask. In this marvelous book, we finally learn the answer. It’s legendary!”
“It wasn’t enough that Madeleine Smithberg was a key player in the breakthrough comedy that was David Letterman’s Late Night show on NBC, nor that she co-created The Daily Show, the most significant innovation on the late-night comedy landscape since the invention of Tonight in 1954. Now she has written a book about all of that.
And the life she’s lived before and after and in between. No surprise: it’s revealing and insightful, personal, and playful, and bust-a-gut hilarious on every page. Madeleine never had to look far to find the funny. It’s always been right there in her own creative hands.”
“I was there at the beginning and this is a story I didn’t know. How The Daily Show came to be and what went on behind the scenes. It’s a story worth telling. And Madeleine tells it well. And it’s funny.”
“Smithberg took a chance, hiring an unknown, untested, aspiring actor from the Chicago Theater scene. It was his biggest break and it changed his career forever. But enough about Stephen Colbert. She hired me right after that, and I owe her a lot.”
“Madeleine Smithberg was a talent coordinator for my earliest television shows. She had a fine eye for all things strange and startling. She proved the “what” was more important than the “who”. Or maybe it was the other way around. Either way, it was Madeleine’s unique guest bookings that got people’s attention in those early days. We all loved her brain and her energy and her Rolodex (Google it). Turns out she’s also a good storyteller. I know you’ll enjoy this book.”
“Madeleine’s rise from affable and effective staffer on Letterman to the creator of one of the most influential television shows in the history of political comedy is the stuff of legend. “How did she do it?” one might ask. In this marvelous book, we finally learn the answer. It’s legendary!”
“It wasn’t enough that Madeleine Smithberg was a key player in the breakthrough comedy that was David Letterman’s Late Night show on NBC, nor that she co-created The Daily Show, the most significant innovation on the late-night comedy landscape since the invention of Tonight in 1954. Now she has written a book about all of that.
And the life she’s lived before and after and in between. No surprise: it’s revealing and insightful, personal, and playful, and bust-a-gut hilarious on every page. Madeleine never had to look far to find the funny. It’s always been right there in her own creative hands.”
“I was there at the beginning and this is a story I didn’t know. How The Daily Show came to be and what went on behind the scenes. It’s a story worth telling. And Madeleine tells it well. And it’s funny.”
Descriere
Madeleine Smithberg, co-creator and original executive producer of The Daily Show, takes readers on a VIP backstage tour as she relives some of the most seminal moments in late-night comedy.