Monologue

✍ Scribed by Macks, Jon

• Book ID: 110458761
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 380 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780698168725

✦ Synopsis

"Jon Macks is one of the greatest comedy writers of all time." --Chris Rock
**A hilarious, revealing look behind the history and culture of American late-night TV, by a longtime comedy writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. **
Ever since Johnny Carson first popularized the late-night talk show in 1962 with The Tonight Show , the eleven p.m. to two a.m. comedy time slot on network television has remained an indelible part of our national culture. More than six popular late-night shows air every night of the week, and with recent major shake-ups in the industry, late-night television has never been more relevant to our public consciousness than it is today. Jon Macks, a veteran writer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno , takes us behind the scenes of this world for an in-depth, colorful look at what really makes these hosts the arbiters of public opinion.
From the opening monologue--what's funny, what's dangerous, what's...