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...attend Harvard and needed more time to study, so I quit ballet right before my senior year at [Buckingham Browne and Nichols]. One year later, at Harvard’s pre-frosh weekend, I noticed a ballroom dancing show listed in our events pamphlet. Interested, I decided to go. Standing in the back of the room, ironically behind Miguel Arguellas ’06, who would become my dance partner later that summer, watching all the ballroom dancers, I thought, “Oh my God. I have to do this.”Acting on a dancer?...
Following the high-profile Wyclef debacle, the UC Concert Commission changed their entertainment tactics this week by announcing a Sanders Theater stand-up comedy show. The Dec. 10 event will feature seven touring comics, including former SNL-er Kevin Brennan. Incredibly, the comedians will all be performing for free, with proceeds going to victims of the earthquakes in South Asia. This week, The Prying Game asked whether people cared about the show and what comics they’d bring if they’d had the chance...
...love stand-up comedy; I download a lot of it. I’m in two Mitch Hedberg facebook groups and wish [the UC] could bring him here, except he’s dead. And Pablo Francisco—he’s fucking hilarious. When I was breaking up with my boyfriend, I kept using [Francisco’s line], “I love you! C’mon, the band’s gonna make...
...recently. People are less likely to have strong preferences about comics, and I guess it’s good they have a cause for this one; people like to feel like they’re doing something good with their money. Annie Lewis ’07 I think stand-up is awkward—you’re sitting in front of someone and they’re obviously pretending to do something that isn’t natural to them. It’s contrived. They should bring that vagina workshop lady. I’m absolutely sure...
Banerji doesn’t like Final Clubs and thinks being UC president is “cool.” He also has experience (“Magnus, let me cut in, I was communications director.”) Lee thinks that outside candidates stand no chance of being elected and that Crimson photographers will “steal your souls.” Lee “dislikes the UC but thinks its funny,” while Banerji “does not, on both counts.” Lee also thinks that...