The Stand-up Comedy Festival: Send in the Clowns

This book is a fictional account of a stand-up comedy festival, organized and hosted by the legendary Ed Sullivan of "Toast of the Town" fame. Although the event itself is make-believe, all the characters, 200 of America's greatest comedians and comediennes, are real. More than 50 of them will step up to the microphone to deliver their one liners. Among the performers are Fred Allen, Roseanne Barr, Milton Berle, George Burns, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, Billy Crystal, Ellen DeGeneris, Jimmy Durante, Whoopi Goldberg, Alan King, Jay Leno, Moms Mabely, Jack Paar, Joan Rivers, Jerry Seinfeld, Henny Youngman, and thirty-five other legendary comics. The five chapters are titled (1) The Art of Stand-up Comedy (2) Birth of an Idea (3) The Red Carpet (4) The Host (Ed Sullivan) and (5) The Performers. Laugh along with Ed Sullivan and the audience at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles, especially at the adlibs from non-performing comics in the audience.