Barbara P. (gotchagal) - , reviewed on 9/2/2009 + 97 more book reviews

Even funnier - and more bizarre - than the stories comedians tell onstage are the stories they tell each other.

Cumulatively, these stories shine a hilarious - and often shocking - spotlight onto the real nature of telling jokes for a living. Yet, until now, this was a world hidden from the public, accessible only to comics who'd paid heavy dues.

In what is truly a landmark publication, I KILLED presents the never-before-published recollections of America's comedy pantheon: an awesomely talented lineup that ranges from hip urban comics such as Lewis Black, Paul Rodriquez, & Carlos Mencia to blue-collar belly-laughers Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, & Ron White. Particularly well represented TV & motion picture comedy stars, personalities as varied as Red Buttons, Brett Butler, Jonathan Winters, Dick Martin, Paula Poundstone, Dennis Miller, Tom Arnold, Bill Maher, Larry David, Phyllis Diller, Tim Allen, Drew Carey, Jay Leno, Jerry Seinfeld, Rita Rudner, Chris Rock, Mike Myers, and making their own posthumous cameos are such legends as Richard Pryor, Rodney Dangerfield, Sam Kinison, Milton Berle, Johnny Carson and Andy Kaufman.

All told, more than 200 practicioners of the comic arts "came clean" for this shockingly revealing & surprisingly insightful book. Read it and laugh as you share in their sometimes outrageous experiences & really get to know them. A very good book.

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