King Of The Half Hour: Nat Hiken And The Golden Age Of Tv Comedy (Television And Popular Culture),New

King Of The Half Hour: Nat Hiken And The Golden Age Of Tv Comedy (Television And Popular Culture),New

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Regarded by his contemporaries as one of televisions premier comedy creators, Nat Hiken was the driving creative force behind the classic 1950s and 1960s series Sgt. Bilko and the hilarious Car 54, Where Are You? King of the Half Hour, the first biography of Hiken, draws extensively on exclusive firsthand interviews with some of the wellknown TV personalities who worked with him, such as Carol Burnett, Fred Gwynne, Alan King, Al Lewis, and Herbert Ross. The book focuses on Hikens immense talent and remarkable career, from his early days in radio as Fred Allens head writer to his multiple Emmywinning years as writerproducerdirector on television. In addition to reestablishing Hiken's place in broadcast history, biographer, David Everitt places him in the larger story of early New York broadcasting. Hikens career paralleled the rise and fall of televisions Golden Age. He embodied the eras best qualitiescraftsmanship, a commitment to excellence and a distinctive, uproariously funny and quirky sense of humor. At the same time, his uncompromising independence prevented him from surviving the changes in the industry that brought the Golden Age to an end in the 1960s. His experiences bring a fresh and until now unknown perspective to the mediums most extraordinary period.

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