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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

It was described as a stand-up comedy history class and was discussed as being a great read, with stories about Johnny Carson.

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You gotta get his book. You know, it's about his life as a standup comedian.

— Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 12-19-16

Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 12-19-16

It was described as a stand-up comedy history class and was discussed as being a great read, with stories about Johnny Carson.

"

You gotta get his book. You know, it's about his life as a standup comedian.

Was it walking through the ashes of standup? My life as a standup comedian.

You gotta get the book because, you know, he started to tell me those, Johnny, first time he did the Tonight Show, he had cocaine, little baggie of cocaine in his fucking pocket.

He said the next time he did it, he did a joke about heart attacks and Johnny was really nervous about having a heart attack because he smoked and hated him.

And they made sure that he stayed in the fucking dressing room. They're like, you're never doing the show again and blah, blah, blah and all this type of shit.

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