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Flip : the inside story of TV's first Black superstar / Kevin Cook.

Author: Cook, Kevin, 1956-

Publisher: New York : Viking, c2013.

ISBN: 9780670025701 (hbk.)
0670025704 (hbk.)

Description: 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Wilson, Flip.
Comedians United States Biography.
African American comedians Biography.
Television personalities United States Biography.
African American television personalities United States Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts. bisacsh

Summary: Chronicles Wilson's meteoric rise through the Chitlin' Circuit of segregated nightclubs to his breakthrough on Johnny Carson's Tonight show to his hit variety show, on which he created such outrageous characters as the sassy Geraldine and flock-fleecing Reverend Leroy.

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