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Each Monday night, Leno meets with several of his writers at his rather gloomy mock-Tudor house in Beverly Hills to piece together the Tonight show monologue. The sessions begin at 11 and usually run till 4 a.m. On one recent occasion the group that gathered around his kitchen table consisted of Jimmy Brogan, pale, scholarly-looking, wearing a blue baseball cap, a stand-up comedian admired by other comedians; Ron Richards, also a comedian, wry and pleasant; and Chuck Martin, a young stand-up and the only one not on Leno's payroll, sitting in like a rookie playing...
...chronology. It is rapid and provocative, each scene change marked by the resounding clang of the frying pan and distorted recordings of the dialogue that have transpired on stage. The result is something very much like a current Reebok crosstrainer commercial, the kind of thing the play seems to mock. The 27 scene changes are clocked and set into motion with finesse, a credit to the lighting and set crew. However, these changes also pose a problem. Too abrupt and vague at times, they tend to jerk the audience, confusing an otherwise entertaining plot and sleek production...
...highlight of the afternoon session was a mock interview, designed to acquaint lawyers with the potential difficulties of interviewing Haitian clients...
Adam Lane, whose light-hearted exegesis of Matthew 16:23 appeared in his cartoon "Drawn and Quartered" on February 28, is not the first person to mock the founder of Christianity. The crown of thorns that he depicts on Jesus head is a reminder of that...
Nicholson Baker is a subatomic physicist of fiction, a quantum suburban Proust. He is a wizard at anatomizing the micromechanics of mental life, at charting the quicksilver zigzags of decision and indecision, a writer who can spin out a mock epic from a pair of broken shoelaces...