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...invited to perform at the 2007 HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and is a host of “3 Men and a Chick Flick” on the WE network this season. Chosen as one of Comedy Central’s “Fresh Faces of Comedy?? and named one of Back Stage Magazine’s “10 Standout Stand-ups,” he also performs at NYC’s Gotham Comedy Club and the Comedy Cellar...
What all of this reveals is that in contemporary comedy??indeed in contemporary American culture at large—there is only one remaining taboo...
...Clandon’s two younger children, Dolly and Phil represent hyper-education gone wild. Phil, in particular, is a character rich with the kind of verbal weirdness that makes “You Never Can Tell” such an incisive comedy??he insists on calling the dentist Valentine a “gum architect” and frequently references his “knowledge of human nature”—but Stuntz doesn’t quite know what to do with Phil’s quirks...
Perhaps these segments are meant to spice up the narrative, and keep casual viewers happy; in any case, this “gonzo comedy?? suits Fox (the film’s distributors) far more than Cohen’s old “Da Ali G Show” home HBO. Cohen’s real strength, here as always, is in using his deadpan portrayal of a totally oblivious foreigner to expose prejudice and hypocrisy in the supposedly civilized world...
...Classical Club will be working with a fresh translation of Aristophanes’ comedy??one they created themselves. “We’re presenting an original translation of the play,” Catennacio explains. “Classics concentrators and affiliates helped translate the play from the original Greek...