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...make me some bunny lint, but who said life was fair? (Speaking of fairness, Fox did unveil one spankin'-new sitcom, "The Bernie Mac Show," a single-camera affair that I have to say seemed two notches smarter than I expected of yet another family sitcom for a standup comic...
...hack-up yet another demographic-friendly allusion that is both witty and self-aware. Sure, the movie lacks class and charm-but today's kids don't want class and charm. They want attitude. And Shrek's got more attitude than a 24-hour marathon of Jeannine Garafolo standup (let us now take one second to pray that this never happens...
Henry Rollins is no ordinary mortal. Not only does he still, at age 40, have a neck thicker than his head, he is the only man I know of to have successfully combined careers as rock singer in a respected band and as a standup man, as well as producing jazz albums, writing poetry and being interviewed more times than seems humanly possible. And he has been asked to give the Union Address at Oxford University this year. Not bad for a guy who still refers to himself as “the guy who makes those dick jokes...
...Photo-op time. Before the plan had even arrived, Democratic leaders Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle were camped out behind a podium bearing a placard that said "Bush Tax Plan: New Lexus for Every Millionaire." And behind the podium was a Lexus. And there was Gephardt doing political standup, insisting that under the President's plan, lower-income families would only be able to afford "the muffler...
...retirement from "Peanuts" and then crested over into his household after his death are dominated by a single refrain: The handwritten response I received from Charles Schulz at a critical moment in my development changed forever the course of my life. He influenced two generations of comic strip artists, standup comedians and readers everywhere. But unlike other seminal figures of American mass culture in the 1960s and '70s - Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, Andy Warhol - Schulz had no itch to be a teacher, a guru, a manufacturer of lesser artists. "I don't know the meaning of life," he once said...