Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America

2009 • 1 Season • 7.0 Ended

Melding performance, biography and history, this features interviews with over 90 comedians, writers, producers, and historians.

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Episodes

E1. Nerds, Jerks & Oddballs: Would Ya Hit a Guy with Glasses?

60 min

This episode looks back at the bespectacled wannabe (Harold Lloyd) and the vain coward (Bob Hope) as the outsiders of their day. Along with pioneering...

E2. Breadwinners and Homemakers: Honey, I'm Home!

60 min

E3. The Knockabouts: Slip on a Banana Peel

60 min

Physical comedy and slapstick have always found rich soil in America. From the mastery of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton to the computer-generated...

E4. The Groundbreakers: When I'm Bad, I'm Better

60 min

In the ongoing war against hypocrisy, conservatism, political correctness, prejudice, prudery, censorship, sentimentality, liberalism, extremism, and...

E5. The Wiseguys: Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

60 min

America loves the wiseguy who defies convention by speaking the truth no matter the consequences. Whether in the form of the curmudgeonly W.C. Fields...

E6. Satire and Parody: Sock It To Me

60 min

Americans have always loved to make fun of the world around them using the slings and arrows of parody and satire. Whether it was Will Rogers, Johnny...