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Brand is also involved in comedy, performing stand-up sketches and writing books. Although he is decidedly British, Brand has found a niche in American pop culture...

Author: By Eleanor T. Regan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brand and Hill Hit Boston Before 'Greek' | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

Most talk show hosts cut their teeth on years of stand-up, so that’s the arena from which a lady-successor will most likely emerge. But as it is, when comedy clubs often adhere to an unspoken “one woman comic a night” rule, the successful comedienne is necessarily a perfect storm: attractive (but not too attractive!) with a masculine (but not too masculine!) sense of humor...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female Talk Show Hosts Face Comedic Challenges | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

Despite the show’s title, Gervais is hardly its focus. Instead, it is Karl, whom—despite his utter lack of stand-up, writing, or acting experience—Gervais has called “the funniest man alive in Britain today.” Over the last decade, Pilkington has become Gervais’s pet project, if not his pet. He is a fool, and also a genius...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Ricky Gervais' Brings the Funny | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

...real similarity here is to Comedy Central’s mercifully short-lived “Shorties Watchin’ Shorties” (you know a show’s good when its title prescriptively drops the gerund “g”), which animated clips of stand-up comedy routines. That’s not the greatest of legacies...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Ricky Gervais' Brings the Funny | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Alexandra A. Petri ‘10, Co-President, Harvard College Stand-Up Comic Society (HC SUCS...

Author: By Jose Delreal, Nora A. Tufano, and Anna M. Yeung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard Tries Hilarity | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

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