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...first two times you tell it, you’ll get a great reaction,” said comedian Harrison R. Greenbaum ’08. “The third or fourth time, it’s maybe not as good because you haven’t rehearsed it enough yet so that it sounds unrehearsed...
...nature of his job.” Colbert had been very blunt about what that nature was. “I don’t perceive my role as a newsman at all,” he said during the interview. “I’m a comedian from stem to stern. You can cut me open and count the rings of jokes.” “If people learn something about the news by watching my show, that’s incidental to my goal,” he said. As the audience laughed...
...hear about Michael Richards' comments, in which he repeatedly used the N word? Is that the comedian? Yes. So many of these comedians are obscene that I would have no idea whether they were serious or it was part of their act. It was a terrible insult to African Americans, but so many things on TV are so insulting...
...Clear Channel (no awards yet). And, oh, yes, Goldberg, 51, writes children's books in her spare time. Her latest, Whoopi's Big Book of Manners (Hyperion), takes on a particular pet peeve of hers: rude kids. Not her grandkids, of course. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with the comedian...
...couple of mollycoddles out there want to put the kibosh on that? Line 'em up, man. Line up pop culture from The Nigger of the Narcissus to The Birth of a Nation to To Kill a Mockingbird, right on through N.W.A. and "Niggas vs. Black People," and on to comedian Dave Chappelle playing a blind Ku Klux Klan member who ends up yelling "nigger" at himself...