I Like It Better When You're Funny: Working in Television and Other Precarious Adventures - Hardcover

Grodin, Charles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375507841 ISBN 13: 9780375507847

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Complemented by humorous behind-the-scenes anecdotes, the author provides a memoir of his transition from award-winning actor to TV talk-show host and commentator and shares his insights into American culture and media.

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About the Author:

Charles Grodin has had a unique career path, from Broadway to Hollywood to television commentary. Along the way he has written four acclaimed books, including It Would Be So Nice If You Weren’t Here, which was a national bestseller. Mr. Grodin won an Outer Critics Circle Award as best actor in Same Time, Next Year on Broadway. He won an Emmy Award as a writer for the Paul Simon special. For thirty years he starred in a number of outstanding films, including The Heartbreak Kid, Seems Like Old Times, Midnight Run, and the Beethoven movies. In 1995, Mr. Grodin began a successful career as a television talk show host; he received four Cable Ace Award nominations for The Charles Grodin Show, which appeared on CNBC and MSNBC. He is currently the commentator for the CBS newsmagazine program 60 Minutes II as well as a commentator

From the Inside Flap:

author, 60 Minutes II commentator, and world-champion raconteur Charles Grodin is back and better than ever in this revealing, opinionated, and delightful memoir about life, America, and cable TV.
In a thirty-five-year acting career that ranged from studying at the Actors Studio with Lee Strasberg to appearing in a box-office smash with a dog named Beethoven, Charles Grodin achieved the American dream. But at the peak of his career in the early 1990s, with a son entering first grade, he decided to give it all up so he could stay close to home. Years earlier, Johnny Carson had put him under exclusive contract as a guest on The Tonight Show. Now, he began a career in television with his own daily talk show on the cable channel CNBC. In I Like It Better When You’re Funny, we join him on a behind-the-scenes journey through the television industry. What he discovers there is more challenging, more startling, and funnier than he ever could have imagined.
In this wide-ranging memoir, Charle

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375507841
• ISBN 13: 9780375507847
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 242