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...have a preferred type of joke. “With comedy, it’s different than with music, because no one has a particular taste for a particular type of comedy,” Tanjeloff said, referring to the failure of the HCC’s planned Wyclef concert. “Funny is funny....Even if it’s not Chris Rock out there or Robin Williams, people are still going to come and pay money for charity.” He also said that it wasn’t difficult to find comedians interested...
Perhaps the best thing to come of the failed Wyclef concert is its replacement—“Comedy for a Cause 2005,” a Harvard Concert Commission (HCC)-organized benefit show to aid victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake in South Asia. The event, which will be at Sanders Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m., will feature seven comedians, and is open to the general public. The HCC is aiming to raise $5,000 for “money, tents, clothes, and food” for the winter. Oh, but enough with the mushy...
It’ll also help the HCC work within its budget constraints. No matter how many structural changes the UC makes to the HCC, it still will never have the budget of universities like UC San Diego (UCSD). After all, one Wyclef absence could fund 10 indie bands...
...course, knowing what the student body wants is still a step in the right direction. The Concert Inquiry Commission noted in its recent report that more student input should have gone into the Wyclef selection, an important part of the decision-making process for many other schools...
...every Dylan, there’s been a Wyclef. The HCC and the UC admit the problem. “Our biggest challenge in the past has been gauging student interest,” says HCC Vice-Chair of Production Samantha H. Fink ’08. Nevertheless, a few successful events could restore the student body’s faith in university-sponsored social programming...