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...movie, you wouldn't believe it. It was just the greatest set ever; I mean I was f___ing killing. And I even said, "The red light's on - I gotta go," and people were like, "NOOO! STAY!" So I finished and stepped off the stage and thought, Wow! I'm a genius. And then probably the next 16 times, I just bombed. I couldn't understand it - "Wait, these are the same jokes I told last week." People just hated...
...about New York cabdrivers and time-filling banter with the couple in the front row who had just gotten married a week ago. Then, a few minutes after midnight, James Smith, a lanky Australian stand-up who has appeared on HBO's Flight of the Conchords, bounded onto the stage for a 15-minute set to do something a little different. He talked politics...
...HeadlinesStill, the Bush years got stand-up comics reading the headlines again, and they haven't stopped. The economic crisis has been a hot topic for months, health care is coming on strong, and favorite targets like Sarah Palin and Clinton have helped out by refusing to leave the stage. But when it comes to Obama, the comics are still groping. Greg Geraldo, a club stalwart whose material was filled with anti-Bush gibes a few years ago, has moved on to Obama, but mostly to execute a deft pivot - like a bit on John McCain's befuddlement...
...parties work through these prickly issues on the main stage, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel promising as much as $7 billion in badly needed state aid to Opel if Magna emerges victorious, another drama is developing behind the scenes. Some of Magna's biggest customers on both sides of the Atlantic, including Chrysler and Volkswagen, may decide to move future contracts with Magna to suppliers who are not in the business of selling cars. (Read "Merkel Saves Opel from GM's Fate...
...famous family makes its choices and knows their costs. Among these is the reality that the deepest moments in the family's life are not suffered or savored in private but played out on the vast public stage. When the Kennedys are most lost, they have to show the way; when they want to hide, they are expected to lead. It has been this way in life - and particularly in death - for decades...