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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...fact, many of the jokes in Harris’s almost-satire are limper than the canned gags that Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., tosses off about the Curse of the Bambino...

Author: By Joshua D. Gottlieb, | Title: Hitting the Right Note? | 12/2/2003 | See Source »

...comedy is just a touch limper, fluffier. Gone is the economic clarity of early stand-up routines like her phone call to God, what you can tell about people by their groceries (whipped cream, lawn chair, douche) and how toilet seats get wet. Ellen, at her best, is a comedian who could make doubters like Jerry Lewis, who says women aren't funny, curse their Y chromosomes. But in her new routine, God turns out--ooh, novel!--to be a forty-sevenish black woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Ellen, Back Again | 7/24/2000 | See Source »

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