There's Laughter in the Air! Radio's Top Comedians and Their Best Shows

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Performing Arts

Authors: Jack Gaver, Dave Stanley In Year : 1945

Book Language: English

Audiobook: There's Laughter in the Air! Radio's Top Comedians and Their Best Shows

00 - Then and Now
01 - Fred Allen (Juggler's Progress)
02 - Bob Hope (While There's Life!)
03 - Jack Benny (The Fiddler from Waukegan!)
04 - Bergen and McCarthy (Alter Ego!)
05 - Fibber McGee and Molly (The Folks from Peoria!)
06 - Ed Gardner (Absentee Ownership!)
07 - Eddie Cantor (Girls, Girls, Girls!)
08 - Abbott and Costello (Laborers in the Cornfield!)
09 - Amos 'N' Andy (Blackface!)
10 - Ed Wyn (The Fire Chief!)
11 - Fanny Brice (The Brat!)
12 - Milton Berle (Peck's Bad Berle!)
13 - Colonel Stoopnagle (The Colonel!)
14 - Easy Aces (Aces!)
15 - Burns and Allen (Be Dumb, Sweet Maid!)
16 - Phil Baker (Squeeze Play!)
17 - The Great Gildersleeve
18 - Durante and Moore (The Sweetest Guy in the World!)
19 - Joan Davis (I'ze a Muggin'!)
20 - Jack Kirkwood (The Early Bird!)
21 - Raymond Knight (Cuckoo!)

There's Laughter in the Air takes readers on a sidesplitting romp through the world of old-time radio comedy. It gives a brief history of the medium and brief but intimate accounts of some of the biggest acts from the 1930s and 1940s. Gaver and Stanley give insight on several luminaries from the days of vintage radio: Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Fibber McGee and Molly, Burns and Allen, Amos 'n Andy, and more! (Summary by ChuckW)