Jonathan Winters: After The Beep - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0399515356 ISBN 13: 9780399515354

Publisher: Perigee Trade, 1989

Synopsis

A close friend of the noted comedian for more than thirty-five years presents a selection of zany bits Winters has left on his telephone answering machine

About this title

From Library Journal:

A comedian's success lies both in the quality of his prepared material and his delivery. Thus, reading these impromptu, transcribed telephone messages, complete with every "uh" left by Jonathan Winters on author Smith's machine, is not funny. This book does a disservice to Winters's talents. The anecdotes in the introduction and epilogue reveal embarrassing weaknesses of Winters that friends probably should not tell. The 30 photographs, showing the author with Winters over the years, seem superfluous and self-congratulatory. One photo is of Winters making an obscene gesture (giving someone the finger). The book's premise is unsound; the language is at times vulgar; and the final piece is racist. Maybe you had to be there. Not recommended.
- Annie Davis, Technology Training Assocs., Cambridge, Mass.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perigee Trade
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0399515356
• ISBN 13: 9780399515354
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Jim B. Smith