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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

Bill Burr mentioned that he really enjoyed this book by Rich Shydner and that the book provided context to what stand up comedy was like in the 1980s.

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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

Bill Burr mentioned that he really enjoyed this book by Rich Shydner and that the book provided context to what stand up comedy was like in the 1980s.

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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 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.

You've done books in the past and stuff. And how did this whole thing like, I mean, it had to be through just telling stories of guys like me knowing how interested I am in this shit.

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