The Funniest One in the Room: The Lives and Legends of Del CloseChicago Review Press, 01/04/2008 - 416 páginas Nichols and May. John Belushi. Bill Murray. Chris Farley. Tina Fey. Mike Myers. Stephen Colbert. For nearly a half century, Del Close—cocreator of the Harold, director for the Second City, San Francisco's the Committee, and the ImprovOlympic, and “house metaphysician” for Saturday Night Live—influenced improvisational theater's greatest comedic talents. His students went on to found the Groundlings in Los Angeles, the Upright Citizens Brigade in both New York and Los Angeles, and the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago. But this Pied Piper of improv has gone largely unrecognized outside the close-knit comedy community. Del was never one to let the truth of his life stand in the way of a good story—and yet the truth is even more fascinating than the fiction. In his early years, he traveled the country with Dr. Dracula's Den of Living Nightmares, knew L. Ron Hubbard before Scientology, and appeared in The Blob. Del cavorted with the Merry Pranksters, used aversion therapy to recover from alcoholism, and kicked a cocaine habit with the help of a coven of witches. And when he was dying, Del bequeathed his postmortem skull to the Goodman Theatre for use in its productions of Hamlet—a final legend that lives on, long beyond the death of the father of long-form improvisation. |
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... You've Gone Sane ! " 331 24 The Party 25 Curtain Call Bibliography 350 364 376 Notes 377 Interviews 386 389 Acknowledgments Appendix : Works of Del Close Index 410 393 Introduction “Hey, you know who's coming to my party? Del.
... interview with playwright John Guare , Del claimed that he had played " pit drums in the Folly burlesque theater in Kansas City . I had no desire to do it myself , but I did tear the collars when the comedians bent over and split their ...
... interview . Del would enter to music from Ketèlbey's In a Persian Market and , dressed in bulbul trou- sers , would assist Dr. Dracula's magic and perform his fire - eating act . This guy had a midnight show - y'know , at the movie ...
... interview , supported Del's memories . Although Del used to call it Dr. Dracula's Tomb of Terror , it was actually called Dr. Dracula's Den of Living Nightmares . " Del Close was an assistant on the show for not too long a time ...
... rescinded , while Del left the Barter . In an interview fifty years later , Flicker simply could not recall the exact circumstances . “ I liked Jerry , and Jerry had been doing commedia dell'arte . He was 42 The Funniest One in the Room.
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7 Stongehenge and a Skate Through the Sewers | 95 |
8 The Merry Pranksters and My Mother the Car | 109 |
17 The ImprovOlympic | 239 |
18 Roaches in the Dental Floss | 251 |
19 The Return of the Harold the Barons Barracudas and Charna | 267 |
20 The Brain of the Galaxy | 285 |
21 Chris Farley The Blob and Farewell to Second City | 300 |
22 Workshops Reunions and the Family | 316 |
23 Close Youve Gone Sane | 331 |
24 The Party | 350 |
With the Committee in San Francisco | 118 |
10 The Birth of Harold Spidering and a Pornographic Western | 132 |
11 Pretty Much a Blur | 153 |
Belushi and the Bean Can | 165 |
13 Valium Vitriol and Ancient Egyptian Opium | 175 |
14 The Clockwork Orange Treatment | 193 |
15 Junkies Give the Best Shots | 208 |
16 Saturday Night Live Tennessee Williams and the Cleanup | 220 |
25 Curtain Call | 364 |
Bibliography | 376 |
Notes | 377 |
Interviews | 386 |
Acknowledgments | 389 |
Works of Del Close | 393 |
Index | 410 |
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