Word: comicality
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...you’ve heard this one.Three undergraduates walk into a bar—one from Emerson College, one from Boston University (BU), and one from Harvard. More specifically, they walk into The Comedy Studio on the third floor of the Hong Kong restaurant, where a handful of young comics are testing out their raw stand-up routines.The students from Emerson and BU both do their schtick, but the Harvard kid merely listens politely. After an enjoyable evening of comedy, the three emerge on to Mass Ave. and go their separate ways. Get it? Get it? Okay, that bombed...
...films have continued to bounce quickly around the Web, particularly a violent gangster rap video starring Natalie Portman. He, like South Park, has given mainstream exposure to a young, punky, reference-packed, comic book--influenced humor that has been better represented on the Web than on TV. And as with most punky projects, Samberg thinks he's getting away with it more than he is. SNL used to have contributors, such as Albert Brooks, who would submit finished videos. "They take the risk," says Michaels of the Lonely Island submissions. "For us, if it doesn't play well, it just...
...Benjamin Spock for conspiracy to encourage draft evasion, after Coffin delivered to the Justice Department more than 100 draft cards they had collected at antiwar rallies. (The conviction was later overturned.) An early supporter of gay rights and the basis for the "thoroughly modern" minister Scot Sloan in the comic strip Doonesbury, Coffin said part of his job was to be a "disturber of the peace...
...observant and physically handicapped sister whose sabotaged love affair leads her to attempt to curtail Adela’s headlong impulses; her cutting remarks bring a sarcastic humor to the show. And the maid Ellen C. Quigley ’07, who serves both as an additional source of comic relief and as a second mother figure, adds a much-needed warmth to the discontented themes of the play.HRDC acting and directing veteran Birnbaum’s direction is characteristically excellent. Although some plot points are never resolved, and the presence of some scenes distracts from the main drama between...
Other viral videos show genuine comic smarts. One night in January a couple of Emerson College students named Jonathan Ade and Patrick DiNicola had a brain wave and stayed up late re-editing footage from the Back to the Future trilogy to create Brokeback to the Future, the time-traveling love story of young Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and mad scientist Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd). Viral gold. "A friend of ours posted it onto YouTube," says Ade, 21. "After that point it got away from us." Brokeback to the Future has been viewed more than 3 million times...