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...time for outsider satirists like Mort Sahl and Lenny Bruce, and the counterculture years of the late '60s and '70s gave rise to stand-up social commentators like George Carlin, Richard Pryor and Robert Klein. By the '80s, however, stand-up had mostly retreated to the home front (Roseanne Barr), the trivia of everyday life (Jerry Seinfeld) and the carefully nonpartisan "topical" jokes of Johnny Carson. In the George W. Bush years, political comedy came back in style, not just for late-night hosts like David Letterman and Jon Stewart - who are far more willing than Carson...
Indeed, the Obama era has helped clarify an often overlooked dichotomy in late-night TV comedy: the divide between the political satirists (Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Letterman much of the time) and the topical jokesters (Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Fallon). O'Brien's middle-of-the-road, Carsonesque wisecracks in particular ("President Obama's approval ratings have slumped to an all-time low, which explains Obama's new Secret Service code name: NBC") are looking comparatively tame now that he's opposite the increasingly politicized Letterman - whose contempt for Bush-era politics comes through in his interviews as much...
Students also expressed concern that the changes—particularly those eliminating some late-night shuttle service—would endanger Quad residents by forcing them to trek home through the Cambridge Common late at night...
Most of the proposed shuttle service reductions that drew student protest last May—including cuts to late-night Quad trips—were not adopted in the 2009-2010 schedule, though weekend morning service has been eliminated...
Shuttle: 1. A bus to and from the Quad and Mather. 2. The vehicle you will chase and miss at 3:44 a.m. even though it’s supposed to leave at 3:45a.m. 3. No longer provides late-night service to the Quad. Wait, it still does. Does...