This is a book about three things: 1. A room called the Comedy Cellar. 2. Who gets to speak in that room. 3. What they get to say. The Comedy Cellar is a tiny basement club in New York's Greenwich Village. Run according to the principles of its owners, the Dworman family, it became a safe place for stand-ups ...
Based on research at the Australian National Film and Sound Archive, a film studies academic provides new insight into Australian comedy films of the 1930s and the extraordinary period of social change in which they were produced.
