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Cape Comedy is a quirky, pop culture thriller set in the tragically funny world of stand-up comedy.

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Publié par	First Edition Design Publishing
Date de parution	15 avril 2014
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781622875856
Langue	English

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Cape Comedy
Marc Weingarten

First Edition Design Publishing
From Marc's background, I understand his knowledge and descriptive detail of the comedy club world. It's his grasp and descriptive clarity of a serial killer that concerns me.
Kevin Nealon
Star of Saturday Night Live and HBO’s Weeds

This is my 45th year as a standup comedian so I know only one who has had years of experience in the complex world of stand-up comedy who could truly write about it. Marc Weingarten is the one.
Tom Dreesen
More than 60 appearances on The Tonight Show,
13 years as Frank Sinatra’s opening act

OMG! I Never thought he had it in him! I flipped over Marc's book! Every chapter better than the last. His writing, style and creativity was beyond enlightening and entertaining. The only downside - as a person, what an a_ _hole.
Bobby Slayton
Frequent guest on Politically Incorrect and Howard Stern,
Star of his own HBO Stand-Up Special

If the general public had any idea of the behind-the-scenes stories that have gone on in comedy clubs across the nation ... oh, Lordy. Most comics have kept our mouths shut, only because someone else has equal dirt on us to spill. Marc Weingarten, in his debut novel, unabashedly shares some of the raw truths and appallingly funny accounts in this fictional (or, is it?), comedic setting … pulled, I'm sure, from years in the biz.
Pam Stone
Co-Star of the ABC TV Sitcom, Coach

After reading this book, Marc will never be Unknown to me.
Murray Langston
The Unknown Comic
Marc knows and loves the comedy biz from the laughs out front to the deals out back. That includes that unfunny underbelly you didn't know exists. Grab 2 drinks and read it.
Alonzo Bodden
Last Comic Standing, Season 3 Grand Prize Winner
Feature Correspondent on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Marc is an authority on American Comedy and a very talented writer, both of which are evident in this book.
Blake Clark
Adam Sandler’s The Waterboy and 50 First Dates

Marc's experience as a comic and former comedy club owner helped mentor me in the early stages of my career, and is why this book is a must read for not only comedians, but anyone that's interested in the world of comedy! His honest nature and truthfulness is what I admire about him as a person, and is also what makes him such a rare and brilliant writer!
Bret Ernst
Star of Comedy Central Presents and
Co-star - Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show

Marc has always been ahead ahead of the curve. Even before there was a curve. Marc was one of the first comics during the comedy boom. He was among the first comedy club owners and comedy bookers. However, pioneers seldom get their just rewards. At last! It's his time. Marc has written a novel that's Gatsby-like in the way it unveils layers of the comedy world most people don't know exist. This fine piece of literature is destined to be on every bookshelf and/or underneath everybody's eyes.
Bruce Baum
Co-author: Letters From A Nut,
Writer on Whose Line is it Anyway and
Stars as his animated self in The Simpsons
To comics killing is everything. This book has everything.
Jack Coen
Writer / Producer of Tonight Show with Jay Leno

It’s great. If you love the world of comedy you will really enjoy this book.
Fran Capo
Good Morning America,
Larry King Live,
6x Guinness World Record Holder as the
World's Fastest Talking Woman

I've had numerous clients from Paula Jones to a Pulitzer Prize nominee, but Mr. Weingarten is the client I will miss the most for many reasons. He's a man of loyalty, integrity, and honor. He's intelligent, savvy, humorous, and wildly creative.
His writing speaks for itself. Mr. Weingarten's manuscripts are different. If you're tired of the same old regurgitated plotlines and characters, you're in for a rare treat. He has a unique style that copies no one and will be difficult, if not impossible, for other writers to imitate. This man won't settle for above average; he strives to break new ground with every word he puts to paper.
Kelly Mortimer
Literary Agent
Cape Comedy

First Edition Design Publishing
Cape Comedy
Copyright ©2014 Marc Weingarten

ISBN 978-1622-875-84-9 PRINT
ISBN 978-1622-875-85-6 EBOOK

LCCN 2014938339

April 2014

Published and Distributed by
First Edition Design Publishing, Inc.
P.O. Box 20217, Sarasota, FL 34276-3217
www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com

Cover Art Painting – Michael Young

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means ─ electronic, mechanical, photo-copy, recording, or any other ─ except brief quotation in reviews, without the prior permission of the author or publisher.
PREFACE

The process of writing this novel, from the moment the very first word butted up against the very first page to now, took more than 18 years. It would not have been possible without the love, kindness and support of so many people. And because that list extends to just about everyone I’ve crossed paths with, know that I’m so grateful for all your interactions ... good and bad. You had your part in shaping this work as it shaped me.
There are three people, however, whose unconditional kindness need special mention. First and foremost my mother who saved my life and opened her heart to me in ways that I’ll never know but only a mother can. To my daughter, Jessica, who will never be anything less than the gift of all gifts to me. And to my former agent, Kelly Mortimer, who believed in me and had my back despite an illness that caused her to retire prematurely ... Thank you.

Comics are a special breed. I don’t quite understand the why of it, but lightning strikes us in ways it avoids others. It has always been my intention in writing this novel to unveil as much of this extraordinary world and its inhabitants as to allow for the truth to flavor the fiction. In that spirit, I present to you a couple of flavorful, yet truthful stories from my life before you reach the novel itself. These stories are relatively typical of almost every comic that’s ever worked a stage. And they are presented to you so you can begin the process of knowing more than what a microphone in front of a brick wall reveals.
Story 1: George Carlin

America’s green rooms: The stories they could tell if they were blue in the face.
For four years I owned, in partnership, a relatively famous green room in Pasadena. One that came with a stage that showcased America’s greatest comics: The Ice House.
On an innocuous Wednesday night in 1982, I found myself alone in that dismally dank colored room with George Carlin.
At the time, the Ice House was in danger of going belly-up and we’d begged the comedy community to help. They did so, categorically, in droves. Many, many comics turned out to help save the club including Gallagher, Robin Williams and on this night, George Carlin.
The emcee, I’d just introduced the middle act so I had some 25 minutes to kill. I killed it in conversation with George.
All the while we talked, he chain-smoked joint after joint. I’m guessing he consumed five. I say “guessing” because the contact high was so intense I’m still a bit buzzed to this day … some thirty years later.
Regardless, we ran on about politics, relationships and his act. I had the presence of mind to ask him what he was going to talk about onstage. He said, “I’ve got some new ideas about cats and dogs I want to play with.”
When the middle act finished, I introduced George to the audience, scampered to the back of the room and watched him work.
Now, it had been my experience with comics trying out new material that maybe they’d engage one or two new jokes. On occasion I’ve seen guys do a couple of minutes of new stuff. I don’t know that I’ve ever seen any comic risk trying more than ten minutes of brand new material on a given night.
Carlin was into his act for fifteen minutes or so when he started in on his domestic playmates. Five minutes turned into ten turned into forty minutes of never before attempted material on cats and dogs. No pauses to retrieve a thought. No breaking character because the reaction wasn’t what he expected. Just brilliance at the highest (no pun intended) level. It had to be depressingly devastating for any comic cashing a paycheck that night knowing and witnessing George’s mind unplugged. I’ve never seen anything like it before or since. An American treasure breeding as God is my witness.
Story 2: The Los Angeles Zoo

For comics, the days are mostly about fueling the nights. It’s kind of a multi-layered process where sometimes it’s about writing on your own; other times putting yourself in situations with other comics to laboratory the creativity. And then, of course, there are times when it’s none of that but simply about the need to laugh. After all, who cuts a hairdresser’s hair but another hairdresser?
When I first started out one of my great friends was Fred Smoot. As funny as he was onstage, he made me laugh even harder in the normal course of a day. He was a prankster whose road stories opening for the likes of Neil Diamond included driving a VW Van into the swimming pool where Neil and the band were sunning themselves. On this particular day Fred had this idea to go to the Los Angeles Zoo. It was the day following Fred’s appearance the night before on The Tonight Show.
Innocent enough on the surface, there was nothing innocent, however, about any of Fred’s ideas. So we called the zoo pretending to be who we weren’t: me a feature writer and Fred a photographer for the L.A. Times. We claimed we were doing an expose on American zoos. We figured it would get us in for free. It got us a whole helluva lot more than that.
We were taken to the office of Dr. Warren Thomas, the quirky and somewhat controversial zoo director whom I