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Leno tells his viewers: "People! Go off, take a look around. I'll meet you back here in October or November." So don't feel guilty, America. Your standup guy is standing...
...Murderer" is pure Caricature. Each character performs a little dance in front of the audience without connecting with any of the others. Watching each character on screen for a few frames with their own humor would work fine on a standup comedy show, or "Saturday Night Live," but not in a full-length film...
From his previous albums, we know Prince iscapable of more, even when he's reinventinghimself. The pseudo-ballads "The Morning Papers,""God Created Woman" and "Sweet Baby" do not standup to the standards set by previous works "WhenDoves Cry," "Nothing Compares 2 U" or even theupbeat "Delirious," from...
Saturday Night Live may as well take the rest of the year off, because the candidates are doing their own standup comedy. It's as if George Bush and Bill Clinton were running not for President but for Tonight Show host. And the touchstone of their political humor is popular culture, which they may think is the only thing the electorate knows or cares about. So Dan Quayle hates Murphy Brown. Bush wants families to be "more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons." Clinton, who does a better impression of Bush's prissy drawl than he does...
Oddly, he wasn't a great standup comedian. He was funny in several Broadway roles, but doing the same thing every night bored him. He was unbeatable at drinking and telling stories all night in bars, but they don't pay you for that. Where Jackie Gleason really was the Great One, as he called himself with no undue bashfulness, was as the bus driver Ralph Kramden in his long- rerunning TV show, The Honeymooners. In THE GREAT ONE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF JACKIE GLEASON (Doubleday; $22.50), Time's theater critic, William A. Henry III, sorts amiably through...