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...Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour," 1969: The brothers, already in jeopardy with CBS for their satirical barbs, lose their show after an allegedly blasphemous guest spot by David Steinberg. The vein in which Steinberg took the Lord's name was comic...
...Meanwhile, Yorkin and Lear's breakthrough with "Family" has prompted a host of imitators ? led by Yorkin and Lear. The best of the shows to explore the comic territory they opened up is their "Sanford and Son" (also adapted from a British original), which made its debut on NBC last January...
...Written with poet Mason Hoffenberg, Southern's best-remembered comic novel, "Candy" (1964) had a curious history: first published in 1958 under the pseudonym "Maxwell Kenton" by the Paris-based Olympia Press (a firm that printed trite erotica and debuted groundbreaking works like "Lolita" and "Naked Lunch"), the book fell into a strange copyright limbo on these shores. In interviews, Southern quoted the book's sales at 7 million - it was a "New York Times" bestseller in its official U.S. edition, but thousands of copies were sold through bootleg printings of the book by no-name publishing houses, marketed...
...took a risk then. I chose being a possibly unemployed comic over being an employed copywriter. My boss at the time offered me a leave of absence, but I said I wouldn't be back. When he came to my first show, I made the mistake of asking him what he thought, and it was negative. From then on, I never asked that question again. It's only your opinion that matters. After my kids, I am most proud of having made my mark as a female comic in what was then strictly a male profession...
France's favorite comic-book character is Astérix, a diminutive Gaul who gets loaded on magic potion before beating the daylights out of Caesar's invading legions. In real life, Rome gave France the grape, whose sophisticated cultivation the French now claim as one of their crowning contributions to civilization. Recently, anti-globalization maestro José Bové has adopted Astérix's moustache along with his approach to foreign policy - with U.S. multinationals taking the place of the Roman army. That comic-book reading of 21st century economics prevailed last month in southern France, when Robert...