Brave New Workshop is a comedy theater in Minneapolis-St. Paul that has been satirizing local culture for over 50 years. It was founded in 1958 by Dudley Riggs as a way to draw customers to his coffeehouse. The theater helped launch the careers of many famous comedians like Al Franken, Tom Davis, Louie Anderson, and Lizz Winstead. The book tells the story of Brave New Workshop and its outsized influence on American comedy through television and film over the past 50 years.