Jeff Abraham

Jeff Abraham is an American publicist, comedy historian and author.[1] His only book—The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage—was written with Burt Kearns, and it was published on September 3, 2019, by Chicago Review Press.[2][3][4][5]

Career

As a publicist, Abraham has represented many comedy projects and comedians, including George Carlin[6] and David Brenner.[7] He has been a research consultant to authors[8] and documentarians,[9] and his Abraham Comedy Archives, a voluminous comedy album collection, has been a resource to writers and filmmakers alike.[10] He is a prolific podcast and radio guest, [11] and in 2022, he was featured in the Emmy award-winning HBO documentary series,George Carlin's American Dream.[12]

Abraham has conducted interviews for The Archive of American Television and worked closely with the Paley Center for Media. He is on the advisory board of the National Comedy Center.[13]

As an author and comedy historian, he is completing the first authorized biography of The Ritz Brothers.[14][15]

References
  1. "Jeff Abraham". Coasttocoastam.com. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  2. "Killer Set: The Strange History of Performers Dying Onstage". Vanity Fair. 4 September 2019.
  3. "'Show Won't Go On': Book Compiles Performers Who Died Onstage". NPR.org.
  4. Chilton, Martin (September 10, 2019). "He's dying up there: the macabre, surprisingly funny history of onstage deaths". Telegraph.co.uk.
  5. "Book review: The shows that didn't go on". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  6. "Comedian George Carlin diess". Tulsa World. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  7. "Comedian David Brenner Dies at 78". Hollywoodreporter.com. 15 March 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  8. Zoglin, Richard (10 February 2009). Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America. ISBN 9781582346250.
  9. "Jeff Abraham". IMDb.com. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  10. Kessler, Debra (26 May 2020). "The Abraham Comedy Archive: "Mr. Comedy" Jeff Abraham Has 5,000 Comedy Records and Counting". Theinterrobang.com. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  11. "Radio and Podcasts".
  12. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12899886/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1
  13. "Advisory Board of Directors - National Comedy Center". Comedycenter.org. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  14. "Hail Satire! with Vic Shuttee: Jeff Abraham, Publicist and Comedy Archivist (September 9, 2018)". Hailsatire.libsyn.com. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  15. "NiteLife Exchange Streaming Picks of the Week". Nitelife-exchange.com. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
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