Perfect Amount of Wrong: The Rise of Alt Comedy on Chicago's North Side - Hardcover

Arcadia Publishing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1540258343 ISBN 13: 9781540258342

Publisher: History PR, 2023

Synopsis

In just over a decade, a tiny, do-it-yourself stand-up scene on the North Side of Chicago produced some of the most successful and influential stand-up comedians of their generation. Hannibal Buress, T.J. Miller, Kyle Kinane, Cameron Esposito, Pete Holmes, Beth Stelling, Matt Braunger and Kumail Nanjiani make up a partial list of names of comics who emerged from a scene that had very little industry attention--or even a home club.

It was also a scene that took a backseat to the city's vaunted improv institution, and if we're being completely honest, it was a scene where comics mostly performed to drunks in the backs of dingy bars on their off nights. None of it was glamorous. None of it should have worked at all. But somehow, some way, the comedians from this scene have managed to etch their own names into the Chicago comedy pantheon. The Perfect Amount of Wrong is the story of that scene, as told by its veterans.

Edition details

• Publisher: History PR
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1540258343
• ISBN 13: 9781540258342
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 226