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...Young comics of the '70s were as suspicious of Vietnam humor as they were of mother-in-law jokes. Their stuff was apolitical--but radical. It challenged the very notion of making people laugh. When Albert Brooks impersonated a mime so inept he must describe his movements, or Andy Kaufman turned on a plastic record player and lip-synched to the Mighty Mouse theme song, the laughter was uneasy or unheard. Audiences were forced to wonder: Is this supposed to be funny? And that was funny, in a new way. By renouncing the notion of the stand-up as sage...
...Brooks and Kaufman were the art house of post-funny, Martin was the mall. He bounded onstage with enormous energy, madly strumming his banjo ("I'm a-ramblin'!"), working the balloon animals, exhausting the audience into submission. Even if people didn't understand that he was playing the character of a jerk, they applauded as a reward for his efforts. After years of one-night stands in cities with interchangeably bland hotel rooms, Martin and his faux-idiocy finally caught on. (Guest spots on the Tonight Show and SNL helped.) The nobody was suddenly...
Adam Coffin, a research analyst for Rep. Jay Kaufman (D-Arlington), said the bill met with little opposition, despite the fact that states lack jurisdiction over foreign policy. It was passed by both houses of the state legislature, with considerable support from community activists and key legislators, Coffin said...
...Perhaps more bitter than a premature departure is when the tenure application of a popular professor is denied. Last year, two star junior professors—Sociology Professor Jason A. Kaufman ’93 and Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson—were both denied tenure after being nominated by their respective departments. Both will have to leave soon and find teaching jobs elsewhere, after spending years at Harvard...
...Amuse-confuse was in the air in the late ?70s and early ?80s. In the comedy clubs, performers like Albert Brooks, Andy Kaufman, Harry Shearer and Art Metrano were blazing the conceptual trail of "post-funny comedy." Kaufman would play the Mighty Mouse theme on an old phonograph, or read long passages from The Great Gatsby, or assume the guise of obnoxious Tony Clifton, all to the discomfort of an audience who might have come to hear jokes. Metrano donned a tux and sang, endlessly, the old razzmatazz "Fine and Dandy," but only the notes...