{"product_id":"stand-up-comedy-in-chicago-vince-vieceli-9781531669447","title":"Stand-Up Comedy in Chicago","description":"Ten years after Chicago saw its first full-time comedy club open, the landscape was decidedly different. \"Stand-up comedy has exploded in the last couple of years,\" a club owner told the Chicago Tribune in 1985, \"that's the only way to describe it: exploded.\" It was truly a comedy boom, with as many as 16 clubs operating at once, and it lasted nearly a decade before fading, taking with it some of Chicago's oldest comedy stages, including the Comedy Cottage, Comedy Womb, and Who's on First. Still, stalwarts like Barrel of Laughs (south) and Zanies (north) persevered. That part of the story is known; overlooked is the fact there was a comedy boom, period. To hear the story, it is as if stand-up comedy innately morphed from a dated nightclub scene to what one Chicago Sun-Times writer called \"Chicago's atomic comedy blast.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vince Vieceli, Bill Brady\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1531669441\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531669447\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcadia Publishing Library Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d","brand":"Vince Vieceli","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44067169304831,"sku":"9781531669447","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8508c3aa-2d70-4e67-9144-46ee8aa7b1ca.jpg?v=1685411611","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stand-up-comedy-in-chicago-vince-vieceli-9781531669447","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}