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CONFESSIONS OF A HOOKER by Bob Hope as told to Dwayne Netland Doubleday; 230 pages; $17.95 Since he first visited an indoor driving range in Manhattan back in the '30s, the standup octogenarian has played on nearly 2,000 golf courses around the world. With an amalgam of Friars roast hostilities and fund-raiser geniality, Bob Hope says thanks for the memories to the pros and putters who have helped the game. Along the fairway he observes the links style of most Presidents since Eisenhower. When Ike met Hope in wartime Algiers, the general's first words were...
...Born in Corning, Iowa, and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, Carson found his calling when he read a magic book. He dubbed himself the Great Carsoni and quickly learned - or found within himself, the secrets of conjuring -misdirection, poise, timing, a commanding personality -which are also the secrets of standup comedy. His model was Jack Benny, the radio comedian. Benny could pull a laugh out of a sour audience with only a pause and a stare, which was pretty daring for an aural medium. Dick Cavett, who would later write for Carson and host his own talk show...
...title role of the live-action movie, Fat Albert. The movie is based on iconic comedian Bill Cosby’s hit 1970s cartoon series “Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids,” which is, itself, based off of Cosby’s standup routine about his childhood. Directed by Joel Zwick (coming off aptly enough from the high of another “fat” movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding) and produced by Cosby, who also co-wrote the script with Charles Kipps, the problem-solving “big guy with...
Asked why he chose improvisational comedy over standup, Thompson explains that “I never did standup before. It just looked like it was really hard, looked like there was like up days and down days—and I’m too emotionally unstable for that. I need to always be funny and always be loved...
...Aside from "Savages," ABC picked up only one other sitcom, "Rodney," a star vehicle for Rodney Carrington - a standup comic who you may not have known was famous - about a man who wants to be a standup comic. But the network made up for it with dramas, planning so many new ones that I am forced to employ bullet points...