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...Ellsworth Kelly's early (1948-1955 drawings are on display through May 16.485 Broadway. 495-9400. Students $3. Never force the latest Bruce Willis action flick on a date again. For the same price, you can see brand-new one-of-a-kind entertainment in the from of Improv Boston. Back Alley Theater, 1253 Cambridge...
Doing presto comedy is a special talent; many Whose Line players are improv veterans who have appeared on the Brit version. (And, don't ask us why, a lot of them did time in Canada.) They possess the verbal agility of the Says You! gang, but their real comic eloquence is in body language. Check out Wayne Brady's encyclopedic jive as he enacts "the history of 20th century dance in 30 seconds" or his tail wagging and panting when told he is a superhero named Playful Licking Puppy Boy. A star is born...
...Improv Asylum Theater is hosting a sketch comedy act by Ace Theatricals. "Hey, There is Free Food in the Conference Room," is a great way to fuse laughter into an otherwise dismal Harvard night. 216 Hanover St. 263-6887. 6 p.m. $7 cover...
...comes as a surprise that last week Ornstein and nine other serious people took the stage at the Improv on Connecticut Avenue to vie for the title of Washington's Funniest Celebrity. Obviously the fact that it was all for a good cause, to benefit the Child Welfare League of America, gave the would-be comics flop insurance, but none of these people came to have their efforts patronized. They were in it for the glory...
...next contender was Matt Cooper of Newsweek, the odds-on favorite to win (though, having actually performed at the Improv, he was regarded the way Soviet-bloc Olympians used to be: as suspiciously professional). The round, bald Cooper suggested that Al Gore might try to copy Bill Clinton's formula for success and have an affair, then dismissed it with a riff on the media's skeptical reaction. "How do we know?" he had scornful reporters saying. "There's no DNA on the dress! Prove it!" Alone among the contestants, Cooper could do passably good imitations, including of Clinton...