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...Franken: God Spoke, by Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus, is most interesting in revealing the similarities between standup comedy and campaigning: in both venues, the speaker needs to charm his listeners and stir them to applause (the manual version of voting). Franken is a serious guy with irresistible comic impulses. The tummler in him can?t understand why a top politico would advise him not to tell his favorite joke - one by Buddy Hackett, about a penis growing out of a man?s forehead - on the campaign trail...
...backed-up plumbing system. And he continually cites a need to defecate as a reason to park the vehicle, so that he can work on a business proposal in secret. While these moments had many viewers in stitches, fans of Williams’ biting standup or his darker turns in recent comedies like “Death to Smoochy” may find this shift to potty humor lackluster. That being said, “R.V.” is obviously not meant to be a pointed comedy; it’s a crude PG-rated family flick. While...
...Sunu and her troupemates may not be ready for Saturday Night Live or The Daily Show, but groups like The Brown Standup Comics are playing a lead role in the vibrant comedy scene that is springing up on college campuses around the country. Stand-up comics, sketch comedy troupes and improv groups are performing in packed auditoriums, dormitory lounges and cafeteria halls at their own schools and occasionally taking their shows on the road to other campuses. Some colleges have even begun offering stand-up comedy courses. "The stand-up comedy movement on campuses is blossoming," says Doug Holsclaw, whose...
...indulgently but not warmly. He wasn?t David Letterman (another TV outsider who bombed as an Oscar host in 1995), but he wasn?t Steve Martin or Billy Crystal. There were moments when the usually unflappable Stewart, gauging the tepid response, made the flop-sweat asides of a bombing standup comic. (?Work with me.? ?I?m a loser.?) And part of his problem was that he was working against the prejudices of the room rather than toadying to them...
...spoke of his approaches to acting and standup as one and the same. “People hire me to be me in a movie,” he admits, saying that he approached “The Longest Yard” by thinking, “What if Chris Rock was in jail...