Word: hbo
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...slavery. That subject doesn't even come up except in a couple of lame one-liners. It's more about sex, or at least juvenile double entendres about sex, and potty humor. But the central character--unlike those on the old series Martin on Fox, Def Comedy Jam on HBO and many of the other so-called urban-oriented programs that have drawn large African-American audiences in recent years--is no buffoon. In fact, as played by portly Chi McBride, he's the smartest character on the show...
...scene: a perfectly pleasant press luncheon at the HBO offices. CHRIS ROCK is holding forth to a room of journalists about his 13 new TV shows--and sex. He says it's always good material. Having effortlessly charmed the room, he takes the last question from Tracii McGregor, an editor at The Source, a hip-hop magazine. She tells Rock that his photo in whiteface in Vanity Fair was jarring to many of her black friends and asks him what was behind it. "I'm a clown. I'm a comedian," Rock says. "Do you want me to be Dick...
...Montreal--the comic equivalent of the PBA championships--designed his or her act for the television execs in the audience. The art of telling jokes died with the comedy glut of the '80s, and in its place has grown not the rarefied, cerebral, arch alternacomedy that Janeane Garofalo, HBO's Mr. Show and Andy Kaufman-reincarnation Andy Dick have hyped but two much simpler comedic forms: characters and physical gags--the two forms that TV houses most comfortably. Cable has created an endless number of Comedy Central-ready troupes: there are 50 sketch groups in Toronto alone. The cleverest...
APPOINTED. PATRICIA FILI-KRUSHEL, 44; as president of ABC Television; in New York City. Fili-Krushel, formerly an executive at Lifetime Television and HBO, is the first woman to lead a major TV network...
...hours for the privilege of watching him do it. Jerry Seinfeld has been on a month-long global tour, working out kinks in his stand-up routine in preparation for a five-night, 10-show Broadway run that will include a performance to be aired live on HBO Sunday, Aug. 9. "Welcome to the Seiny workshop," he cracked to a sold-out house at an old haunt of his, the 250-seat Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, Calif., last week. After several years of the lush life of a sitcom phenomenon, is Seinfeld still funny in front...