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...When Davis says that "glorious old Hollywood" was in color, and "small comic England" in black and white, he's referring to the countries as well as the movies. After the war the U.S., the new top empire, rebounded into posterity; Britain, relinquishing India and its centuries of world rule, faced shortages of food, gasoline, all earthly essentials. The grinding deprivation of this grim landscape is superbly evoked by David Thomson, another movie-mad poet, in Try to Tell the Story, his new memoir of growing up in London around the same time as Davies in Liverpool. Davies shows...
...referred to people like Woody Allen and Ricky Gervais as comic influences. What is it about them? How would you characterize your particular comedy? I really like just super dry comedy. Obviously Ricky Gervais is the master of that, that's why I use that reference. Right now, that show Eastbound & Down by Jody Hill on HBO I think is genius. I like comedy that makes you cringe because it's uncomfortable, but at the same time you're laughing your ass off. (Read a Q&A with Eastbound & Down's Danny McBride...
...Labor Lost” —an obscure 1911 one-act farce written by French playwright Georges Feydeau. During Europe’s “Golden Age,” also known as the Belle Époque, “[Feydeau] ruled the comic stage,” Shapiro says. Yet “The Pregnant Pause,” which is showing in Adams House tonight and tomorrow, is one of a group of plays that reflect a darker period in Feydeau’s life and career. “[The play] is very funny...
...always knows what the right thing to do is ... He's the hardest working of all the comedians I came up with. I remember when we were all partying until 4 and getting up at noon. He always cut out time during his day as a young comic to make sure he sat down and wrote ... So his success, I think, for the people who knew him from when he started, is so not surprising because he was always kind of a rock star...
...meet David Letterman? I was performing at the Comic Strip in 1979, I think, and I came off stage, and the manager at the club said, You know, this guy named David Letterman just saw you. I was like, Wow! I was excited because he didn't even have his morning show yet, but we knew he was a great comic. But I got a call the next day from the talent coordinator of the Tonight Show who said, David Letterman said he saw you and that you might be a good candidate for the Tonight Show. I didn...