Here's to the Friars: The heart of show business - Hardcover
Joey Adams (1911-1999) was an American comedian who wrote "Strictly for Laughs" - a column in the New York Post. His widow, Cindy Adams, is a society/gossip columnist for the same paper. He was the author of many books, including "Borscht Belt". From KIRKUS REVIEW: "I'll tell you one thing about Sinatra,"" Milton Bede shouts at a Friars Club celebrity roast, ""no one has ever been turned away from his door--if--you're over 21 and have big knockers. . . Everything Sinatra touches turns to gold. I'm afraid to go to the toilet with him. . . What a crowd! I would say mob--but you know how sensitive Frank is."" Adams provides a field day of insult humor and boozy camaraderie in his history of the posh Manhattan club for entertainers, their agents and writers (current membership about 1,040). Born in 1904 as The Press Agents Association, it quickly hit upon the guest-of-honor dinner where the guest was boosted and knocked. Famed members tend to be deeply sentimental about their club and its parties for various charities. Mainly quotations from roasts, the book has some very funny pages, especially Jack Benny's, and many that are mere melted chicken fat--or worse, like an all-night booze with Dean Martin spluttering verbal hotfoots over his glass."
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- PublisherCrown Publishers
- Publication date1976
- ISBN 10 051752788X
- ISBN 13 9780517527887
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages186
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Photographs (illustrator). 1st Edition. To tell the story of the Friars Club is to tell the story of comedy in America: Benny, Alien, Jessel, Berle, Gleason, Rickles, Joe E. Lewis, Martin and Lewis, Abbott and Costello. Smith and Dale. the list is endless. Joey Adams tells an anecdotal, personality-oriented history of the club, spiked to the brim with hilarious routines, one-liners, reminiscences, gossip, and just plain nostalgia. And best of all are the incidents from the famous Friars' roasts-most of them X-rated and none of them ever before revealed to the public. The book includes sixty photographs of the celebrities, starting with the 1916 Friars Frolic and continuing up to the present day. HERE'S TO THE FRIARS is a delectable history of the American entertainment industry that is accurate, educational, but most of all, sidesplittingly funny. World-renowned comedian Joey Adams has been Goodwill Ambassador for three Presidents. He is the founder and chairman of the Actors Youth Fund and a former president of the American Guild of Variety Artists. Author of more than twenty-five books, Mr. Adams was recently appointed Commissioner for Youth of the City of New York. PRAISE FOR HERE'S TO THE FRIARS - Here's to the Friars! Here's to Joey Adams! And here's to the fortunate reader of this treasury of the best of show business - BOB HOPE. This is the greatest show business book. And only Joey Adams could write it. - MILTON BERLE. Not only is it hysterically funny, it is a fascinating narrative of the heydays of show business. Must reading. - HOWARD COSELL. The Friars is my favorite club. Joey Adams is my favorite comedian and writer. Together they make up my favorite book of the fast twenty-five years, Here's to the Friars. - GEORGIE JESSEL. Book. Seller Inventory # 000775
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