![]() ![]() ![]() She starts in the 1950s, when comic success meant ridiculing and desexualizing yourself when Joan Rivers and Phyllis Diller emerged as America's favorite frustrated ladies when the joke was always on them. It's incendiary, much discussed, and, as proven in Yael Kohen's fascinating oral history, totally wrongheaded.In We Killed, Kohen pieces together the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy, gathering the country's most prominent comediennes and the writers, producers, nightclub owners, and colleagues who revolved around them. In We Killed, Yael Kohen assembles America's most prominent comediennes-along with the writers, producers, and nightclub owners in their orbit-to piece together the rise of women in American comedy. Binding is tight.Dust Jacket in mint condition and protected in Mylar.Signed by the author, Yael Kohen, on the title page.First Edition print.No matter how many times female comedians buck the conventional wisdom, people continue to ask: "Are women funny?" The question has been nagging at women off and on (mostly on) for the past sixty years. A contributing editor at Marie Claire, she covers books, pop culture, and issues important to working. ![]() Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/CollectibleBook appears to be untouched/unread. Yael Kohen is a reporter and editor in New York City. ![]()
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