Word: leno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could stake his claim to make Americans from coast-to-coast smile "just like in the good old days" on even more substantial grounds. For Dukakis has presided over a golden age of comedy in his home state. Jay Leno got his start on the local comedy circuit during Dukakis' first term in office, and Steven Wright and D.J. Hazard hit it big during the governor's second sojourn in the state house. It's no coincidence that no one was funny during the King Administration...
...while Beantown has sent many a talented stand-up cut-up out into the brightly lit, dimly conceived world of big-time comedy, it hasn't gotten much back in return. Top headliners don't come to town too often and homegrown prodigies such as Leno and Wright only pop in for occasional, surprise appearances at their old haunts. As a result, Boston comedy has been suffering from the excruciating boredom that inevitably results when the same young comics--those who can't break into the big time--perform at the same old clubs weekend after weekend...
Consumer grief is even becoming part of the pop culture. Comedian Jay Leno says that when he chided a supermarket clerk for failing to say thank you, she snapped, "It's printed on your receipt!" The film Back to the Future cracked up its audiences with a scene in which Michael J. Fox's character, who has traveled back in time, walks past a 1950s-era filling station and is flabbergasted to see four cheery attendants in neatly pressed coveralls. Like a pit crew at the Indianapolis 500, they dash up to a car and proceed to fill...