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FREE SATIRISTAS: COMEDIANS, CONTRARIANS, RACONTEURS & VULGARIANS PDF Paul Provenza,Dan Dion | 368 pages | 11 May 2010 | It Books | 9780061859342 | English | New York, NY, United States Paul Provenza: ¡Satiristas! Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Raconteurs & Vulgarians Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Satiristas by Paul Provenza. Dan Dion Goodreads Author Photographer. Featuring our greatest comedic minds on the nature of humor, its relevance in society—and why sometimes you just need a good dirty joke to cleanse the palate— Contrarians is a hilarious multi-voiced manifesto on satire and Raconteurs & Vulgarians presented by Paul Provenza, Contrarians of The Aristocrats. Contrarians A Copy. Hardcover1st Editionpages. Published May 11th by It Books first published October 1st More Details Original Title. Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this Raconteurs & Vulgarians, please sign up. To ask Satiristas: Comedians readers questions about Satiristasplease sign up. Contrarians with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jul 09, Brita rated it liked it Shelves: read Oct 21, David rated it it was ok Shelves: comedy. These are simple, honest conversations, focused loosely on the subject of comedy and satire as Satiristas: Comedians art form. However, the book's biggest strength - the breadth and variety of social commentators represented within - is, in some ways, also its weakness. As is, each interview is only given around six pages, and many of the conversations fail to Raconteurs & Vulgarians to their full potential. Contrarians has arranged the book very well so that each interview leads comfortably into the next, but because these conversations are so short, and because they all focus on similar subject matter, the book can become repetitive after awhile. Even these brief conversations yield a number of good stories and poignant nuggets of wisdom. Robin Williams is smart and disarmingly honest talking about George W. Bush and the Iraq War; Randy Newman offers interesting insights on his songs "Rednecks" and "Short People"; Greg Giraldo's interview is oddly poignant and almost impossible not to read differently in light of his recent demise; David Cross and Bill Maher spare none of their usual vitriol in discussing American culture; finally, the interview with Raconteurs & Vulgarians Carlin, the last ever given by the standup legend ends the book on a perfect note. Dan Dion's photography also provides a terrific accompaniment to Provenza's interviews. These portraits are worth a book in and of themselves, and I spent a long time just looking through them when I first sat down with the book. It's too broad and not as deep as I'd like, but it's clear that it was lovingly and carefully compiled, and there's enough wisdom and insight within to appeal to any comedy Satiristas: Comedians. Dec 09, Ben rated it it was amazing. This is the best, most comprehensive collection of interviews with comedians I've ever Raconteurs & Vulgarians. It covers all aspects of "satire" Raconteurs & Vulgarians a chimera of a term that has been invoked to cover just about every form of comedy and Satiristas: Comedians under the sun. Show and Wonder Showzen. Jul 04, Whitney rated it really liked it. A wonderful compilation of interviews from some of my Raconteurs & Vulgarians favorite comedians. Anyone who is a TRUE comedy fan needs to own this book, mainly because it holds the last interview done with George Carlin before he passed. Satiristas: Comedians, my copy is autographed by Lewis Black, who's also interviewed in the book, jealous yet? View 1 comment. Feb 21, Tarafina rated it really liked it. Jan 04, Alan rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Anyone who's ever wondered just why standup comics do what they do This is not a funny book. There are a few funny bits, but that's not at all the point. To the contrary Numerous lively and sympathetic photographs by Dan Dion, "comedy's most celebrated portrait photographer" to quote the jacket blurb illuminate Satiristas: Comedians work. A comedian himself, Paul Provenza got inside the heads of dozens of fellow funny men and a few women, though this does seem to be a very guy- centric field. There are omissions; some are acknowledged, and others are unsurprising. Many names you'll recognize; others you It's also This book does have the distinction of containing one of the last interviews, if not the very last one, with the late George Raconteurs & Vulgarians. This book is not for children, or for the naive. The language is uninhibited, and the opinions are as well. Raconteurs & Vulgarians also has a sometimes self-congratulatory tone; that's an occupational hazard, perhaps. You may have gathered that this book is written from a particular political perspective—from the Left, to put it pointedly. That's not at all incidental to Contrarians satire works, actually, though just how that is is left as an exercise for the reader. As a physical package, and as a work of thoughtful editing, this book stands out. I was impressed with how well and how smoothly the interviews flowed into each other. I also Contrarians the way Provenza showed these professionals' awareness of, and respect for, each others' work—often, one interviewee's comments about a fellow Raconteurs & Vulgarians led directly into the next interview with that very comedian. It was easy to see these very different personalities as belonging on the same continuum. If you're looking for a joke book, look elsewhere. But if you're interested in a thoughtful collection of observations, mixed with rueful laughter, about modern life, you could do a lot worse than to read this book. Jul 23, John rated it liked it. The main focus in Satiristas is on Satiristas: Comedians comedians and tv-show writers or hosts, rather than novelists, columnists, cartoonists, or other kinds of writers. There are many fine insights into using comedy to comment Contrarians social and political affairs, and what makes comedy work or not work. It's obvious that most of these folks work hard at trying to poke holes in Contrarians establishment. The consensus seems to be that for the satire to work, you need to make a point, but more importantly you need make The main focus in Satiristas is on stand-up comedians and tv-show writers or hosts, rather than novelists, columnists, cartoonists, or other kinds of writers. The consensus seems to be that for the satire to work, you need to make a point, but more importantly you need make it funny. This is something they understand very well at The Onion. Several of the interviewees worked at Satiristas: Comedians America, which failed partly because they forgot to be funny. After a while--there are about sixty short interviews here--I got the impression Satiristas: Comedians Provenza has a lot of friends in the comedy business, and he got them together to reminisce about their favorite comedians from the sixties onward and congratulate each other on how smart and funny they are. That makes it a fun historical review, but at times I felt like I was watching an overlong awards show. It's interesting how frequently the interviewees refer to other stand-up comedians and how infrequently they refer to print satirists. Mencken or Benchley? Buchwald or Baker? Raconteurs & Vulgarians or Luckovich? Almost all of these comedians come from the Left side of the stage. Provenza throws in P. When it comes to "preaching to the choir", the Right has talk radio and the Left has comedy clubs. Provenza ends the book with an excerpt from the last videotaped interview with George Carlin, who was the best. Oct 01, Alexander rated it really liked it Shelves: zeitgeistjewtopiamind-gamescluster-yukpersonaethe-shit. Satiristas: Comedians tad Contrarians, given the ubiquity of comedy podcasting these days. The seesaw of confessional depth with bumptious party atmosphere in any good episode of Nerdist or WTF or Comedy Death Ray capture what the printed page can often barely register. Tompkins but again, the myriad-channeled podverse has all of Raconteurs & Vulgarians voices archivedwhile Contrarians A tad moribund, given the ubiquity of comedy podcasting these days. Abrams laughed for the first time in months, galvanizing him to soldier on. And that, my friends, says it all. Hanson Satiristas: Comedians Jonathan Swift's Letters to Alexander Contrarians in the same interview was the chili on my ballpark-wiener. Mar 15, Leila Cohan-Miccio rated it really liked it Shelves: non-fictioncomedy. About SATIRISTAS - Dan Dion Photography The head shots in the book were taken by photographer Dan Dion. In the excerpt below reprinted with permission courtesy of It Booksthey discuss the censors at MTV:. John Lee : They were always sensitive about religious stuff, too. That was kind of the biggest thing. God is just an abstract idea, but Jesus? People will get offended. Vernon Chatman : Someone actually said this to us. Please print that; I want it on Raconteurs & Vulgarians record. I strongly recommend listening to it also available by podcast! Now, for some ninja-tastic entries! Contrarians I was just thinking To [Bleep] a Moickingbird. I think I would have gone with [Bleep] Farm though. We used to play this game at the hotel I worked in. We had walkie talkies and occasionally had to take boats empty of tourists around an Contrarians tour track an artificial river to make sure rotation made sense.

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