Article: Eccentrics of Comedy.(Book Review)

ECCENTRICS OF COMEDY

By Anthony Slide. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 1998. 157 pp.

Eccentrics of Comedy is a curious book in that it examines neither a particular form of popular culture nor a particular historical period but rather an aspect of the metagenre "comedy" that author Anthony Slide calls "eccentricity." In Eccentrics of Comedy, Slide provides biographical sketches for thirteen "eccentric" comedians from a wide variety of backgrounds and media, while providing precious little explanation as to what exactly his conception of "eccentricity" entails.

The thirteen personalities (really fourteen, as one act is a duo) examined by Slide come from ...

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