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Joey Adams (1911–1999) was an American comedian who wrote "Strictly for Laughs" - a column in the New York Post. His widow, Cindy Adams, is a society/gossip columnist for the same paper. He was the author of many books, including "Borscht Belt". From KIRKUS REVIEW: "I'll tell you one thing about Sinatra,"" Milton Bede shouts at a Friars Club celebrity roast, ""no one has ever been turned away from his door--if--you're over 21 and have big knockers. . . Everything Sinatra touches turns to gold. I'm afraid to go to the toilet with him. . . What a crowd! I would say mob--but you know how sensitive Frank is."" Adams provides a field day of insult humor and boozy camaraderie in his history of the posh Manhattan club for entertainers, their agents and writers (current membership about 1,040). Born in 1904 as The Press Agents Association, it quickly hit upon the guest-of-honor dinner where the guest was boosted and knocked. Famed members tend to be deeply sentimental about their club and its parties for various charities. Mainly quotations from roasts, the book has some very funny pages, especially Jack Benny's, and many that are mere melted chicken fat--or worse, like an all-night booze with Dean Martin spluttering verbal hotfoots over his glass."
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First edition. First edition/ printing (no statement as is correct). Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket. Hardcover. 186 pp. with index. Illustrated with photographs. Joey Adams provides an anecdotal, personality-oriented history of the Friar's Club, a private club founded in New York in 1904 whose members traditionally were drawn from the world of comedians and other celebrities. The Friar's Club is best known for its "roasts" of famous members, many of them X-rated though some were later broadcast on television. Virually every big-time name in American comedy in the first half of the 20th century was a member; the club is still located in "The Monestery" as its home is called, on East 55th Street in Manhattan. Seller Inventory # E22847
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