The Funniest One in the Room: The Lives and Legends of Del CloseChicago Review Press, 1. 4. 2008 - 416 strán (strany) Nichols and May. John Belushi. Bill Murray. Chris Farley. Tina Fey. Mike Myers. Stephen Colbert. For nearly a half century, Del Close—cocreator of the Harold, director for the Second City, San Francisco's the Committee, and the ImprovOlympic, and “house metaphysician” for Saturday Night Live—influenced improvisational theater's greatest comedic talents. His students went on to found the Groundlings in Los Angeles, the Upright Citizens Brigade in both New York and Los Angeles, and the Annoyance Theatre in Chicago. But this Pied Piper of improv has gone largely unrecognized outside the close-knit comedy community. Del was never one to let the truth of his life stand in the way of a good story—and yet the truth is even more fascinating than the fiction. In his early years, he traveled the country with Dr. Dracula's Den of Living Nightmares, knew L. Ron Hubbard before Scientology, and appeared in The Blob. Del cavorted with the Merry Pranksters, used aversion therapy to recover from alcoholism, and kicked a cocaine habit with the help of a coven of witches. And when he was dying, Del bequeathed his postmortem skull to the Goodman Theatre for use in its productions of Hamlet—a final legend that lives on, long beyond the death of the father of long-form improvisation. |
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... Drug Store , Hoover volunteering his father's telephone company car . When they needed a victim , they approached Del , who was happy to oblige , and played his part with aplomb . The newspaper reported that the six gave written ...
... drugs . The St. Louis Compass was in the heart of the Beat Genera- tion . Flicker recalled that there weren't many hard drugs , mostly down- ers like sleeping pills and uppers like Benzedrine , but there was mari- juana everywhere , and ...
... drugs . Darden sympathized with his friend , but the others were angry . It was during this period , facing personal ... drug use seems to have contributed . It is also easy to speculate that his mental infirmity was related to his ...
... drug use , however , and there is more rea- son to think that he was self - medicating to cope with his problems . Though he would be no stranger to what he called “ the loony bin ” in the coming years , this was apparently his first ...
... drug use continued unabated , and among friends , he referred to himself as the chairman of the New York Narcotics Festival . When there was a new drug on the New York scene , he would show up with it , according to Ted Flicker : " The ...
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7 Stongehenge and a Skate Through the Sewers | 95 |
8 The Merry Pranksters and My Mother the Car | 109 |
17 The ImprovOlympic | 239 |
18 Roaches in the Dental Floss | 251 |
19 The Return of the Harold the Barons Barracudas and Charna | 267 |
20 The Brain of the Galaxy | 285 |
21 Chris Farley The Blob and Farewell to Second City | 300 |
22 Workshops Reunions and the Family | 316 |
23 Close Youve Gone Sane | 331 |
24 The Party | 350 |
With the Committee in San Francisco | 118 |
10 The Birth of Harold Spidering and a Pornographic Western | 132 |
11 Pretty Much a Blur | 153 |
Belushi and the Bean Can | 165 |
13 Valium Vitriol and Ancient Egyptian Opium | 175 |
14 The Clockwork Orange Treatment | 193 |
15 Junkies Give the Best Shots | 208 |
16 Saturday Night Live Tennessee Williams and the Cleanup | 220 |
25 Curtain Call | 364 |
Bibliography | 376 |
Notes | 377 |
Interviews | 386 |
Acknowledgments | 389 |
Works of Del Close | 393 |
Index | 410 |