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...kind of blasé postfeminism--What is this, like, 1973?--although Silverman's stand-up has always had a strong woman's consciousness. Or you could just call it confidence, which Silverman, 36, has every reason to feel. For more than a decade, she has been known as a comic's comic for her demurely provocative stage act--captured in the 2005 movie Jesus Is Magic--in which she delivers jokes about AIDS, race, the Holocaust, 9/11 and ethnic stereotypes with disconcerting intimacy. (One of her most famous jokes: "I was raped by a doctor--which is so bittersweet...
...next, to be set in the Brisbane his family discovered on emigrating from England when Hall was 12, is, like the nation, a work in progress. "No country lives with its whole history," he says. "We only live with the stories we choose to tell." In Hall's blackly comic and underrated Hitler (2000), these stories now include a mustard gas-blinded future F?hrer who staggers off an Illawarra and South Coast Steamship Company boat in 1919, making fiendish fun of "the fact, universally acknowledged, that nothing ever happens in Australia." With his finely fervent fiction, Rodney Hall proves that...
...bunch of degenerates I've known and a degenerate part of myself. I had benign polyps on my vocal cords that were removed the day after I filmed the scene. It worked well for the character because he's supposed to have been up for days. That's something comic and heartbreaking: a guy who's doing these sex, drugs and rock-'n'-roll things, but he's really a wienie lawyer. Any chance of an Arrested Development movie? I had held out hope that we would do the movie version. It's [creator] Mitch Hurwitz's call. We didn...
...Ugly win, a missing Prince, a cranky comic - we've come to expect the unexpected on the night Hollywood lets its hair down...
...While Brits Hugh Laurie and Sacha Baron Cohen supplied the night's wittiest quips, comic Eddie Murphy turned in a snoozer of an acceptance speech for his supporting actor win as Dreamgirls' James "Thunder" Early. Surely beating Jack Nicholson warrants more than a couple shout-outs to his producers and agents? Backstage, when quizzed on jokes about his film career, Murphy snapped, ""Have I become that uncool?" No, Eddie, but it wouldn't hurt to write a few funny lines in case you get another crack at this speech thing at the Oscars. Or, there's always showing...