Constant Comedy: How I Started Comedy Central and Lost My Sense of Humor

This insider's memoir about the origins of Comedy Central is "a very, very funny book about an amazing piece of comedy history" (Jerry Zucker, cowriter and director of Airplane!).
Finalist, 2020 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest

In 1988, a young, mid-level employee named Art Bell pitched a novel concept—a television channel focused 100% on just one thing: comedy—to the chairman of HBO. The station that would soon become Comedy Central, with celebrated programs like South Park,...