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Get “The History of Stand-Up”!

I had the best time this afternoon rapping with the illimitable Wayne Federman about stand-up comedy and vaudeville on his podcast. In addition to being the former headwriter for Jimmy Fallon, a co-producer of Judd Apatow’s great Garry Shandling doc we mentioned here, and a guest star on TV shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm, Silicon Valley and Difficult People, Federman wrote the terrific book The History of Stand-Up from Mark Twain to Dave Chapelle, which came out back in March. My episode of the podcast won’t be online until some next year, but I thought I’d let you know about the book now that it’s holiday shopping season. In addition to being a really funny guy, Federman really knows his beans when it comes to show biz lore and connecting the dots between the generations! Get the book here. And listen to the first two seasons of his podcast here.

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.