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...comedy jungle, where Robin Williams is a big silverback ape and Jon Stewart a sneaky hyena, Flight of the Conchords are tiny fawns. Their whimsical acoustic-guitar songs and gentle banter totter out on spindly legs to nibble at funny bones. The duo, who claim to be the "fourth most popular folk parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naiveté. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy Forging the Future: Beyond the Punch Line | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...Harmon and Rob Schrab don't hate television. They just hate the executives who run television. And after creating what may be the most famous TV pilot that never aired--Heat Vision and Jack (1999), starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Owen Wilson--the impoverished writing duo took their revenge by starting an online network, channel101.com that cuts the Hollywood establishment out of the decision-making loop. The rules are simple: would-be TV producers make five-minute shows that are aired once a month at a West Hollywood bar, where a live audience votes on which ones should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy Forging the Future: TV Without the Networks | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

Saldana, now 26, is known to fans as Luny; Cabrera, 24, is called Tunes. Together, they are Luny Tunes, a producing duo with a Midas touch...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cooking with 'Gasolina' | 4/6/2006 | See Source »

Actually, not all of Batali's cookware looks great--his new plastic cutting boards feel as flimsy as Frisbees--but all of it looks different. That's because Batali's design team includes Sam and John Farber, the legendary father-son duo that founded OXO International, which makes those chunky, black Good Grips products that are some of the best-selling kitchen tools in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Super Mario! | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

...haven’t had the results quite yet.” PEPPERDINE 4, HARVARD 3 A win over the No. 2 Waves would have more than capped off the trip Saturday, but Pepperdine supplemented its doubles point with three straight-sets singles victories to inch by. The Harvard duo of juniors Gideon Valkin and Scott Denenberg took the No. 2 match 8-4, and sophomore Ashwin Kumar and freshman Sasha Ermakov pushed the top pair in the nation to a tiebreak at No. 1, but the Green Waves took the first and third matches for an early...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Stalls on Spring Break Trip | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

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