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With Bush's departure from the scene, much of the political urgency has drifted away from stand-up comedy. Pay a visit to a typical comedy club these days and you're more apt to get pummeled with details of the comedian's dating life than with his views on Obama's stimulus plan. "I'm not hearing a ton of political stuff," says Kevin Flynn, a New York-based stand-up who has a couple of Obama jokes in his repertoire but, like a lot of his colleagues, is still feeling his way along with the change in Administrations...
...stopped. The economic crisis has been a hot topic for months, health care is coming on strong, and favorite targets like Sarah Palin and Clinton have helped out by refusing to leave the stage. But when it comes to Obama, the comics are still groping. Greg Geraldo, a club stalwart whose material was filled with anti-Bush gibes a few years ago, has moved on to Obama, but mostly to execute a deft pivot - like a bit on John McCain's befuddlement at how to combat his Democratic foe during the presidential campaign. "How the f___ am I losing...
...edge on his obvious admiration for the President. "He's the first leader in my lifetime who's actually full of hope," Black says in his act. "His nipples are bursting with hope! He's lactating hope!" Talking after a recent set at New York's Gotham Comedy Club, Black admits that Obama is difficult to make fun of but insists he's had no trouble finding political material. "For me, it was never Bush. It was the social issues. Just because Bush left office, that doesn't mean stupidity has fled the country...
...Kennedy were asked to take a year off, and Kennedy spent the next two years serving in the U.S. Army as a military policeman in Paris before re-enrolling at Harvard in the fall of 1953. Upon returning to campus, Kennedy joined the all-male final club the Owl, an association he would sever in 2006 after drawing criticism for condemning Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito, Jr., for his one-time membership in a controversial club at Princeton.Kennedy had “really fond memories” of living in Winthrop C-33 as an upperclassman, according to Will...
Those packs of freshmen aren't the only new thing on campus today. Rapper and twitter guru MC Hammer is at the Faculty Club now to deliver a lecture on social media. This is his second talk on twitter at Harvard in less than a year (last February, he was at the Business School...