CALL ME LUCKY is an uplifting, triumphant, and wickedly funny portrait of one of comedy's most enigmatic and influential figures, Barry Crimmins, a beer-swilling, politically outspoken, and whip-smart comic whose efforts in the 1970s and 1980s fostered the talents of the next generation of standup comedians. Crimmins' gruff, hard-drinking, curmudgeonly demeanor concealed an undercurrent of wrath resulting from his long-suppressed and traumatic childhood abuse–a rage that eventually found its way out of comedy clubs and television shows and into the political arena.
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CALL ME LUCKY is an uplifting, triumphant, and wickedly funny portrait of one of comedy's most enigmatic and influential figures, Barry Crimmins, a beer-swilling, politically outspoken, and whip-smart comic whose efforts in the 1970s and 1980s fostered the talents of the next generation of standup comedians. Crimmins' gruff, hard-drinking, curmudgeonly demeanor concealed an undercurrent of wrath resulting from his long-suppressed and traumatic childhood abuse–a rage that eventually found its way out of comedy clubs and television shows and into the political arena.
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