See You In Nairobi: How Work Became Fun-The Second Time Around Adventures in the Laugh Trade - Softcover

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One of the most important questions you'll ever ask in this lifetime can be answered only by the person looking back at you from your mirror.The question is: "How do I find out who I am and what I want to do?"It usually doesn't faze those who are lucky enough to have a clear picture of how they see themselves. The student heading for med. school knows what's in store for him: the work, the respect, the honors, the money, the quickie with Nurse Florence Nightenhot under the O.R. table, the nine-iron, the sand trap and the malpractice suit. But what about the students who have been unable to latch onto specific goals? The English majors, liberal arts majors, the economics majors. What will it be for them? A career in business, a chief executive of IBM? Or will they be running a fast-food stand selling "The Whopper?"There's no statute of limitations on deciding what you want to be. The verdict can come a year after college, or five years after or possibly longer. And even if one does make a concrete decision, the concrete can crack pretty fast because things change.With Howard Albrecht, that fellow we all know and love, it took twenty years but he finally found, "what he wanted to do in life" write comedy for the likes of Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Alan King, Bob Newhart, Dom DeLuise and many, many others. That decision has given him, for the past thirty some odd years, a great deal of pleasure, pain, excitement, stress, anger, contentment, and out and out fun. This memoir tells of those years and his adventures in the laugh trade.

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Before his segue into show biz writing, Howard Albrecht put in twenty years with the family business, Albrecht's, with stores in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and throughout the Connecticut and New Jersey area. After years of buying, selling and handling women's clothing with and without them in it, he asked himself the big question, "There must be something else." There was. An opportunity to use the skills of jokery he had learned as a child spending summers in the Catskills watching and listening to a wide array of comics and working as a standup comedian during World War II in the USO. He was hired to become a writer on The Jonathan Winters Show and with that as a springboard just kept going from there.Sol Weinstein, in the meantime, was also deeply into satire, spoofery and overweight, the former as author of the bestselling "Oy Oy Seven - Israel Bond" spy howlers and the latter because of his almost erotic involvement with banana-flavored yogurt. They joined forces in 1971 having met through computer dating, Weinstein telling the machine he was Gina Lollobrigida, and Albrecht believing him, like the impetuous fool that he is. Since then they 've written a host of TV variety and situation comedy shows including Bob Hope Specials, Dean Martin Specials, numerous Alan King topical specials, Barney Miller, Doc, Three's Company and Love Boat. Four satirical books have clicked off their typewriter, "The Oddfather", "Jonathan Segal Chicken", Oh, Henry" and a chilling satire about a woman possessed by the demon of gluttony and only one man can save her, "The Exerciser."After eighteen years of television and book writing with Sol and five screenplays with Harold Jack Bloom, Howard finally sat down at the computer to write a jaunty, jolly remembrance of all those shows and jokes, giving the reader a candid insight into the pain, pleasure, stress, excitement and pure out and out fun of working in the comedy trade.

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  • PublisherAuthorHouse
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 1420875299
  • ISBN 13 9781420875294
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages372

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