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...rapidly growing nationwide network of comedy clubs. A few big-city night spots, like New York's Improvisation (sister club of the Los Angeles version) and Los Angeles' Comedy Store, have for years served as a proving ground for young comics, helping launch the careers of Robin Williams, Joe Piscopo, David Letterman and dozens more. Now clubs with names like the Punch Line, Laff Stop and Funny Bone are spreading the yuks everywhere from Kalamazoo, Mich., to Ozark, Ala. At least 260 full-time comedy clubs -- ranging from posh nighteries like New York's Caroline's to converted Chinese restaurants...
...which would surely expand the range of DeVito roles. "He could take on Edward G. Robinson parts, or even romantic leads," Rhea says. "When people get to know him, they'll see he's capable of anything." One thing: people who get to know him are usually beguiled. Joe Piscopo, who starred with him in Brian DePalma's Wise Guys, calls DeVito "the most likable man ever created by God." When asked how DeVito deals with problems about his height, Piscopo seems perplexed. "Danny short? Is Danny short? I never noticed. I've always looked...
...source of pride and some embarrassment. Most of the 47 radio stations in Lima, Peru, play mainly American pop music. In Nairobi last week, ten of the 16 movies playing were American, and in a record store at the Sarit Centre shopping mall, a poster of Joe Piscopo, of all people, is on the wall -- not far from the ubiquitous Sly Stallone. The Rambo prototype, First Blood, was a big hit last year in Peking. The A-Team has been the most popular series in Argentina for three years running, beaten only by the Oscar telecast, always the highest-rated...
...Ayatullah Doumanian" may have been television's most public and widely publicized embarrassment since My Mother the Car. From 1981 to 1985, Producer Dick Ebersol got the show back on a firmer, though slicker, course from which Eddie Murphy busted loose, as did his pal Joe Piscopo. Then Ebersol left, and Michaels, with a new cast and a lot of the old staff, took over again, but without the original brew of fervor and innocence...
...black. "Eddie is beyond brilliant," says Brest. "Audiences can vicariously enjoy a ride on his quicksilver mind, whirling a million miles an hour." Robert Wachs, Murphy's comanager since 1979, gauges the actor's appeal this way: "People want to gift wrap him and take him home." Joe Piscopo, Murphy's partner for 3 1/2 years on Saturday Night Live, says that "Eddie is actually playing himself on-screen. He manages to be totally natural and relaxed. I'd also like him to try something more serious, though, something with Scorcese or Coppola. I know he can pull...