Flying Funny: My Life without a Net
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| Rating | : | 4.76 (640 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071CH64QD |
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| Number of Pages | : | 555 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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If you love show biz, comedy, the circus, or just want to laugh your ass off, you’ll get his book Flying Funny!"—Louie Anderson"The great Dudley Riggs is a titan of comedy. It will pull you by the sleeve and set you on the tightrope or the flying trapeze until you find yourself landing on the stage of an improv theater. And fly he did! Life without a net is a brave and honorable journey, and Dudley shares exactly this in his story. He let us perform at his theater when we were just getting started, so we owe him a blurb. So buy this book."—Penn & Teller"It’s a luc
Flying Funny Kills! BOFFO! Loren Ek When I lived in Minneapolis I often attended shows at Riggs' Brave New Workshop. Great improv guests.Delighted that Dudley has written this all-consuming book. BOFFO!. Circus History realty Interesting and fast read with lots of circus info. If you loved the circus as a child, you will find this book full of fun, interesting facts. A bygone time that is not disappearing, but Changing.. I don't know which stories I liked best--how Riggs' father used him as a tot in A delightful account of a fascinating life by a master storyteller. Someone alive today who actually grew up in the circus! A trapeze artist no less.I read it to my partner and we both laughed out loud over and over. I don't know which stories I liked best--how Riggs' father used him as a tot in the circus and vaudeville, how as a terrified young man he had to drive a huge truck filled with lio
Son of the acclaimed aerial flyers Riggs and Riggs, he made his circus debut as a polar prince parading in a wagon pulled by a polar bear. From his early life in circus and vaudeville to his creation of the Brave New Workshop, we see how his show business experience and instincts helped him create in Minneapolis what became the “next wave” in American entertainment—improvisation. Home was the circus. With a wry sense of humor and infectious warmth, he shares the exhilaration of flying whether through the air or on the stage.. And what a story it is. Eventually he had to learn to “fly funny” because he grew too tall to fly straight. Dudley Riggs didn’t have to run away from home to join the circus. Later, he moved to Minneapolis where he founded the Brave New Workshop, launching the careers of comic greats such as Penn and Telle