Mark Twain’s Career-Changing Comedy Tour (Tom Ashbrook, On Point)

In 1895, Mark Twain was in trouble. The great American writer and humorist – steamboat man and creator of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn – was way down on his luck. Deep in debt after a series of disastrous investments. Famous and beloved, but worse than broke at almost 60. So he hit the road. On a worldwide stand-up comedy tour by steamship and rickshaw that took him everywhere. A comeback tour of redemption. This hour On Point, on the global road with Mark Twain, at the point of desperation. — Tom Ashbrook
Interview:

http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/09/27/mark-twain-comedy-tour