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Nearly 90 audience members walked out in the middle of a sold-out performance last Thursday at the American Repertory Theatre (ART) to protest the explicit language and subject matter, according to the show’s star, improvisational monologist Mike Daisey...
...than Lenny ever was. In 1961, comedian Shelley Berman told TIME, "I don't dislike him, but people needed Lenny Bruce for the same reason they needed Hitler." (Hmmm. I don't think Lenny's four-letter word was Jews.) And Jean Shepherd, whom I cherish as a radio monologist, later railed against the Lenny Bruce threat ? of the hip people lording it over the square ? saying it was "a new kind of Jew burning, I think it could lead to a new kind of gas oven." (Goldman, Bruce's biographer, wrote, on no evidence, "Hitler was Lenny's ultimate...
...Hefty and balding, looking nothing like the generically adorable Kens and Barbies of today?s news shows, Kuralt was a throwback to such early TV hosts and humorists as Dave Garroway, Will Shriner, Jimmy Dean and the young monologist Andy Griffith - but with a touch of the Hallmark poet and a zeal to bring to broadcast life an America most people didn?t know (or care) still existed. As TV zoomed into the electronic age, Kuralt stayed unplugged, logging 50,000 miles a year in his mobile home-office. TIME called his reports for the CBS Evening News ?two-minute...
This collection of random musings from the monologist-actress and chic wit again makes the case that Bernhard's brand of observational humor is like no one else's. In her new work, Bernhard draws on her boundless imagination to pay homage to her housepainter, Jewish mysticism and Brenda Vaccaro while conjuring up ad campaigns for Mother Teresa-inspired day wear. Do we mind that Bernhard's reflections can be a bit too solipsistic, a bit over the top? Nope...
...this regard is High Incident, a recently launched ABC police series (Mondays, 9 p.m. est). Fortunately, no character is named High or Incident. But despite a high-class pedigree--the show is produced by the Dreamworks team of Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen, with creative guidance from monologist Eric Bogosian--High Incident maintains an embarrassingly CHiPs-like feel as its cast of eight Ray-Ban-wearing patrol-car cops meander about a fictional Los Angeles suburb responding to wacky calls...