Entertaining and insightful, The Ultimate Green Room takes you behind the scenes of the green room (i.e., the waiting room/dressing room) of every comedy club across the country. Relevant to stand-up comics, aspiring performers, comedy lovers, and entertainment executives, this unique journey into the world of the stand-up comic provides an insider's look at the comedian's career path. Author Barbara Corry interviewed over 100 comics at all career stages, detailing their early influences and wise directives on precisely how one learns the craft. Each chapter also features humorous anecdotes that reveql the funnies, scariest, and most embarrassing moments of performing live. These war stories round out the portrait of the comedian and, ultimately, the headliner. More than just a how-to guide, Corry weaves valuable insights about a uniquely American craft and offers sociology students an all encompassing look at a fascinating subculture and the process of professional socialization.

Barbara Corry received her master's degree in sociology from DePaul University in Chicago and later pursued doctoral work in sociology at the University of Southern California. A lifelong fan of comedy, she has spent every weekend since 1993 working on staff at the Ice House Comedy Club in Pasadena.

The book is available on Amazon.com now. The website www.theultimategreenroom.com will be up Dec 17, and at that time you may direct inquiries to barbara@theultimategreenroom. Happy reading.