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...when most comedians are too cool to care, here's an odd twist: the two best stand-up comics on TV are the ones who have ventured most boldly into the political arena. Not the easy-to-take, nonpartisan "topicality" of Leno and Letterman, but informed, savvy, opinionated comedy about real issues. Miller and Maher are helping stand-up comedy escape from its contemporary cul- de-sac, where Jerry Seinfeld clones obsess about sex, TV and life's little annoyances. These two comics read the whole newspaper -- not just the funny clippings their writers collect for them...
Indigo Girls aren't made-for-video babes. They are not about belly buttons or cleavage or appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman chewing cigars and spouting four-letter words to get attention. Although their CDs have sold consistently well -- their self-titled debut album went platinum -- both Girls harbor acid feelings about the image-conscious video age. "MTV has hurt music in one sense because people now judge a song by more than just the song," says Ray. But, she concedes, "in the sense of having another art form around -- video -- MTV is probably a good thing...
That should be enough for the Leno and Letterman monologues. But by now Washington is more transfixed by the really dirty part -- the politics. In a week when Clinton won a close but smashing victory in Congress on assault weapons, the big question is what impact the lawsuit could have on his effectiveness as President. Even if the case is dismissed, it can't help the President to have the national imagination supplied with one more image of him as the Libido in Chief. And at a time when public curiosity about the tales of Clinton's womanizing might have...
...David Letterman himself came on the show and he's a sincere person. He went out of his way backstage and on the air to compliment the show. That's someone whose opinion I respect. Because he knows what it takes to do a show...
...year ago at this time, when I found out even the possibility of doing this, I said to myself, 'Boy, whoever follows David Letterman, regardless of what they do, is going to get the shit kicked out of them for a while And Lorne Michaels told me, 'You're going to take a pounding for a while. Are you up for that?' I said, 'Yes'. Is this the easiest way to do a show? No. it's not. The easiest way to do a show is get your show, do it in relative obscurity, have it be in kind...