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Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar (Audio MP3 CD) (Unabridged)
Flip The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar - Audio MP3 CD - Unabridged Author:Kevin Cook, Mirron Willis (Narrator) When "The Flip Wilson Show" debuted in 1970, black faces were rare on television, black hosts nonexistent. So how did Clerow "Flip" Wilson go from Jersey City grade-school dropout to national celebrity, heralded by Time as "TV's first black superstar"? — Flip is a candid, entertaining biography of a cons... more »ummate comedian who changed the face of American pop culture. It chronicles Flip's meteoric rise through segregated nightclubs to his breakthrough on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" to his hit variety show, on which he created such outrageous and hilarious characters as the sassy Geraldine and flock-fleecing Reverend Leroy.
Read by Mirron Willis. 1 audio MP3 disc (approximately 8 hr.) « less