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Mentioned in our stories
- The Year a Comedy Record Outsold Almost EverythingIn 1960 an accountant from Chicago released a debut stand-up album that spent fourteen weeks at number one, won Album of the Year, and proved that comedy could be a recorded product rather than a live service.
- Improv Was Invented to Teach Immigrant Children EnglishThe theatre games that produced Second City, SCTV and half of Saturday Night Live were designed in the 1930s as social work for children — and reached comedy only because one of those children grew up to direct.