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...strings of children from the pay-per-use showers and white-haired friends perched in camp chairs. The diversity of the audience was obviously attributable to this year’s line-up, which included such varied bands as Vampire Weekend, Sigur Ros, Talib Kweli, the Disco Biscuits, and comedian Chris Rock. There was something for everyone. I knew that there would be this musical diversity when I began my trip, but it still did not help me come to terms with the fact that a burnt-out heavy metal band now occupied the spotlight that only a few years...
...Maddow is the one AAR host who's had a continuous daily gig since the network began on March 31, 2004 (her 31st birthday). Air America originally hoped to lure audiences with brand names from other media: Saturday Night Live's Al Franken, rapper Chuck D., comedian-actress Janeane Garofalo. But radio talk is an acquired skill, and the two Air Americans best at it were both radio veterans: Randi Rhodes and Maddow. Rhodes, a hard-line humorist who mixed Michael-Savage-of-the-left analysis with Belle Barth earthiness, was AAR's top-rated host when she lost...
...This is the trademark Huckabee style: two parts comedian, two parts common-man populist, and all conservative pol. As they did on the campaign trail in Iowa, Huckabee's political speeches can still have the pacing of a stand-up comedy routine. "Obama got his speech, according to the media, on two tablets of stone, postmarked Mt. Sinai," he jokes one minute. "My dad used to say, 'Son, don't look so far up your family tree. There is stuff up there you don't need to see,' " he deadpans the next...
...Drugs Are Funny? So, when comedian Seth Rogen talks about taking illegal drugs in three of his answers to 10 Questions, it's hilarious [Aug. 18]? I acknowledge that his new film is a stoner comedy and that he has to promote it to his adoring fans - both teenagers and adults - but why should we find it amusing that Rogen is unabashed about his illegal (not to mention health-damaging) actions? Paige Varner, Albany, Georgia...
...anger is actually hotter than other anger. When he's being smug, he's smugger. He's emotion-plus.' JON STEWART, comedian, on the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, Senator Joe Biden...