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 | The Legacy of the Wisecrack: Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form by Eddie Tafoya Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 1-59942-495-9 / 1599424959 ISBN-13: 978-1-59942-495-8 / 9781599424958 Despite the claim of many a Borscht Belt comic that he is a practitioner of "the world's second-oldest professsion," stand-up comedy is a young and distinctly American literary form. It was not until the last decades of the nineteenth century when, enabled by unprecedented prosperity and the right t | |