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When the culture began to change in the late 1960s - when the old one-liner comics on The Ed Sullivan Show were looking pretty tired and irrelevant to a younger generation experimenting with drugs and protesting the war in Vietnam - George Carlin was the most important stand-up comedian in America. By the time he died Sunday night (of heart failure at age 71), the transformation he helped bring about in stand-up had become so ingrained that it's hard to think of Carlin as one of America's most radical and courageous popular artists...
...college concerts, releasing best-selling records (his breakthrough 1972 album, FM & AM, spent 35 weeks on the Billboard pop charts, revitalizing a comedy-record business that had fallen on hard times). When NBC introduced a new late-night comedy show in 1975 called Saturday Night Live, Carlin was the comedian they turned to as the first guest host. And when HBO began rolling out its influential series of "On Location" comedy concerts, Carlin was among its most popular stars, headlining a record 14 one-man shows for the network, the last just a few months...
...your favorite contemporary comedians? -Pedro Serra, RIO DE JANEIROIt depends on what you define as contemporary. I am a huge fan of Alan Arkin. I think he is such a great actor and such a funny person, and so dry and so smart. In terms of people who are my age and my generation, wow, there are so many. Jim Carrey is a brilliant physical comedian and also has a great handle on more dramatic roles. I've enjoyed Ben Stiller in a ton of things. Sacha Baron Cohen, I think, is amazing, the way he disappears into the character...
...delivered bags of rice and drinking water to Nargis refugees. The country's top brass have not taken kindly to such private largesse, setting up roadblocks to deter relief convoys and hassling some monks who hand out mosquito nets or scoops of rice. An aid effort spearheaded by a comedian who made government misrule his fodder was bound to irk the junta...
...police who arrested Maung Thura on June 4 did not indicate why he was being taken away, a common practice in a country with little regard for legal due process. Authorities also took more from the home than just the comedian. They took his computer, which contained video files of the plight of Nargis survivors. In addition, the security forces seized two DVDs. One was samizdat footage of the diamond-encrusted 2006 wedding ceremony of Than Shwe's daughter; the film highlighted the life of privilege led by the country's ruling elite, even as many Burmese struggle to fill...