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Chan also shared with FlyBy a copy of the speech he gave at the staff sendoff meeting this past Wednesday evening...
...surprising, and wonderful, thing happened after Carlin's death. The outpouring of praise from his comedy peers, and a bounty of clips from his nearly 50 years of stand-up, amounted to more than just the obligatory Hollywood sendoff for another departed star. They actually helped make the case for Carlin's immense importance in the world of comedy, a case never made during his lifetime. And so, the ceremony in which Carlin was posthumously awarded the annual Mark Twain Prize in American Humor - taped last November at the Kennedy Center, and airing on PBS on Wednesday...
...Printed on tatty black-and-white stock, WWN was the journalistic guilty pleasure of the '80s and' 90s. And now it has nonetheless received an affectionate media sendoff. One writer called it "the newspaper of record for astrology and giant tumor-related news"; another, "easily the world's best drunken supermarket impulse buy." Bat Boy Lives!: The Weekly World News Guide to Politics, Culture, Celebrities, Alien Abductions, and the Mutant Freaks that Shape Our World, a 2005 book that compiled some of the paper's most shocking (i.e., silliest) stories, quotes Johnny Depp as saying, "The only gossip...
...Patriot League Challenge, Klein posted a two day total of 147—the lowest score for any golfer in the field. The victory was Klein’s first of the year—third of his career—and made for a special sendoff for the senior...
...another baby after their first miscarriage, band leaders Angus Andrew and Aaron Hemphill decided to go it without a bass player and create an experimental record that wears its “challenging” nature like a merit badge. It’s supposed to be a defiant sendoff, I think, to the fans who liked their good music, and a snide mealy-mouthed pout of “we don’t need no dang bass player!” that sounds more like “We knew we couldn’t top our first...