s="h3color tiny">This review is from: The Great Clowns of American Television (McFarland Classics) (Paperback)

   Being born in 1950, I was lucky enough to grow up watching many of the comedy greats of all-time on television. It's easy remembering all those nights of shared laughter with the family sitting around the boob tube watching Red Skelton, Jackie Gleason, Dick Van Dyke, Carol Burnett and others. Karin Adir provides an entertaining, insightful and affectionate look at 17 of those masters of comedy in this 2002 McFarland & Company release.Either I was too young or my family hadn't purchased a TV in time to see Milton Berle, Ed Wynn, Oleson & Johnson or Sid Caesar. It doesn't take much to bring back memories of almost all of the other performers covered in Adir's book - Ernie Kovacs, Danny Kaye, Martha Raye, Soupy Sales, Flip Wilson, Jonathan Winters and Tim Conway. Skelton was probably the purest clown; Kovacs, the most mind-blowing. I was happy to see Conway included; he was/is a comedic genius. Before he joined the Carol Burnett Show, it was entertaining. After he joined, it...Read more