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...Best Equal-Opportunity Offenders Whoopi Goldberg and Ted Danson, who achieved the impossible -- lowering the moral tone of a Friars' roast -- when the Cheers star, in blackface, paid an epochally crude tribute to Whoopi. She later vexed the Anti-Defamation League with her published recipe for ''Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken...
Most people consider the plight of the homeless anything but a laughing matter, but for Robin Williams, Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Crystal it only hurts when they stop laughing. The three comedians were in Washington last week to promote a three-hour telethon they will host on HBO to raise money for health-care organizations serving the homeless in 18 cities. Scheduled to air from Los Angeles next week, Comic Relief will feature a gaggle of gagsters for every age group, from Michael J. Fox to Henny Youngman. HBO will let cable operators make the broadcast available to all subscribers...
...would you want to hear the joke told over and over, for 90 minutes, by scores of comics? The surprise is: yes. The Aristocrats smartly varies its pace, with iterations by the old (George Carlin), the female (Whoopi Goldberg), the pranksters (Penn and Teller) and the deeply weird (Andy Dick). Also wordlessly (by Billy the Mime), as a card trick (by Eric Mead) and as a cartoon (by the South Park guys). The result is a master class in comedy, in all its cruel, larkish, obsessive creativity...
...theater much. Crystal's autobiographical monologue, which opened last weekend, is the hottest-selling new show of the Broadway season. And while Crystal may be alone on the stage, he's certainly not alone onstage. His is just one of five one-person shows--along with those from Whoopi Goldberg, Mario Cantone, Eve Ensler and Dame Edna--that have opened on Broadway since September...
...make money," says Jay Larkin, an executive producer at Showtime, responsible for Cantone's show, Laugh Whore. And since many of the shows are built around stars with a presold audience, they're easier to promote. "We've got to be realistic," says Hal Luftig, the lead producer of Whoopi. "We're asking people to pay a lot of money. There's comfort in knowing what they're getting...