Jeff Abraham
{{Short description|American publicist}}
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Jeff Abraham is an American publicist, comedy historian, and author.{{Cite web|url=https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/abraham-jeff-102245/|title=Jeff Abraham|website=Coasttocoastam.com|access-date=10 December 2021}} 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.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/09/show-wont-go-on-book-performers-dead-onstage|title=Killer Set: The Strange History of Performers Dying Onstage|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=4 September 2019 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/09/21/762988694/show-wont-go-on-book-compiles-performers-who-died-on-stage|title='Show Won't Go On': Book Compiles Performers Who Died Onstage|website=NPR.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/dying-bizarre-history-onstage-deaths/|title=He's dying up there: the macabre, surprisingly funny history of onstage deaths|first=Martin|last=Chilton|date=September 10, 2019|website=Telegraph.co.uk}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.jpost.com/opinion/book-review-the-shows-that-didnt-go-on-618210|title=Book review: The shows that didn't go on|newspaper=The Jerusalem Post|access-date=10 December 2021}}
Career
As a publicist, Abraham has represented many comedy projects and comedians, including George Carlin{{Cite news|url=https://tulsaworld.com/archive/comedian-george-carlin-dies/article_9eab57db-c8be-5f6a-9536-5472dd07efb9.html|title=Comedian George Carlin diess|newspaper=Tulsa World|access-date=10 December 2021}} and David Brenner.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/david-brenner-dead-stand-up-688854/|title=Comedian David Brenner Dies at 78|website=Hollywoodreporter.com|date=15 March 2014|access-date=10 December 2021}} He has been a research consultant to authors{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtCmCAAAQBAJ&q=jeff+abraham&pg=PA226|title = Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America|isbn = 9781582346250|last1 = Zoglin|first1 = Richard|date = 10 February 2009| publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA }} and documentarians,{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1781066/|title=Jeff Abraham|website=IMDb.com|access-date=10 December 2021}} and his Abraham Comedy Archives, a voluminous comedy album collection, has been a resource to writers and filmmakers alike.{{Cite web|url=https://theinterrobang.com/the-abraham-comedy-archive-mr-comedy-jeff-abraham-has-5000-comedy-records-and-counting/|title=The Abraham Comedy Archive: "Mr. Comedy" Jeff Abraham Has 5,000 Comedy Records and Counting|first=Debra|last=Kessler|website=Theinterrobang.com|date=26 May 2020|access-date=10 December 2021}} He is a prolific podcast and radio guest, {{cite web | url=https://theshowwontgoon.com/radio-podcasts | title=Radio and Podcasts | access-date=2020-04-25 | archive-date=2019-10-22 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022170329/https://theshowwontgoon.com/radio-podcasts | url-status=dead }} and in 2022, he was featured in the Emmy award-winning HBO documentary series,George Carlin's American Dream.https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12899886/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1 {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=June 2022}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://comedycenter.org/advisory-board/|title=Advisory Board of Directors - National Comedy Center|website=Comedycenter.org|access-date=10 December 2021}}
As an author and comedy historian, he is completing the first authorized biography of The Ritz Brothers.{{Cite web|url=https://hailsatire.libsyn.com/jeff-abraham-publicist-and-comedy-archivist-september-9-2018|title=Hail Satire! with Vic Shuttee: Jeff Abraham, Publicist and Comedy Archivist (September 9, 2018)|website=Hailsatire.libsyn.com|access-date=10 December 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://nitelifeexchange.com/nitelife-exchange-streaming-picks-of-the-week-3/|title=NiteLife Exchange Streaming Picks of the Week|website=Nitelife-exchange.com|date=10 April 2020 |access-date=10 December 2021}}
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