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Kicking Through the Ashes My Life As A Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom

Ritch Shydner

Comedian Ritch Shydner is one of America's funniest and most enduring stand-up comics, a wry observer of life around him and a survivor of the 1980s comedy boom.

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Monday Morning Podcast

Rich Scheidner's book, "Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life as a Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom", was described by Bill Burr as his favorite because it encompassed the 1980s comedy boom that he witnessed and that inspired him to become a comedian.

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He's got a book called Kicking Through the Ashes, My Life as a Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom, which personally is my favorite, Eric, because I watched all of it and that made me want to be a comed...

— Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcas...

Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 12-15-16

Rich Scheidner's book, "Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life as a Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom", was described by Bill Burr as his favorite because it encompassed the 1980s comedy boom that he witnessed and that inspired him to become a comedian.

"

He's got a book called Kicking Through the Ashes, My Life as a Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom, which personally is my favorite, Eric, because I watched all of it and that made me want to be a comedian and all that.

You're kicking through the ashes. The parts that I read, what I loved about it is you do not sugarcoat any like the what happened, the odds of you making it, anything.

It was really kind of like you just kind of laid it out there.

Episode: Thursday Afternoon Monday Morning Podcast 12-15-16

Bill Burr had started reading Rich Shydner's new book "Kicking Through the Ashes" but hadn't finished it yet because his wife was pregnant.

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He's got a book called Kicking Through the Ashes, My Life as a Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom, which personally is my favorite, Eric, because I watched all of it and that made me want to be a comedian and all that.

You're kicking through the ashes. The parts that I read, what I loved about it is you do not sugarcoat any like the what happened, the odds of you making it, anything.

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