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...Chase’s famous “Weekend Update” introduction, but the comparison with “Saturday Night Live” is misleading. A talk show’s standard news-rehashing monologue and various sketches certainly call for traditional comedic chops, but the celebrity interview, a talk show staple—it is, after all, where the titular “talk” comes from—requires a skill...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female Talk Show Hosts Face Comedic Challenges | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...talk show host is asked to fulfill the difficult function of flavor enhancer: he (or she) must make even the most dreadfully boring of guests look good, keeping the interview funny without taking over the spotlight. What brings the job to a complexity far beyond that of daytime interviewers is that the result is expected to be consistently hilarious, not just mildly amusing to a few hundred thousand viewers who haven’t had their coffee yet. This balancing act requires no less than a profound bond with the audience: the host must be eminently likeable...

Author: By Molly O. Fitzpatrick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Female Talk Show Hosts Face Comedic Challenges | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...interview Friday evening, Gordon went one step further, saying that he would cease donating to Harvard during that time period...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gordon Raises Stakes After Baj’s Dismissal | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...receives a request for donations in any given year, Gordon said in the Friday interview that he would be comfortable giving $25,000 of his own money. In an e-mail to Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Vice President for Human Resources Marilyn Hausammann, Gordon also threatened to withhold an annual 6 percent disbursement of his father’s trust, whose value he said is contingent on the sale of his father’s apartment but could be valued at around $20 million...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gordon Raises Stakes After Baj’s Dismissal | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...making me feel about three inches tall." That was the lament of Arthur Batchelor, a 20-year-old seaman seized in 2007 by Iranian guards in disputed territorial waters on the Iran-Iraq border and held for 12 days along with 14 other British service personnel. In a newspaper interview, Batchelor also confided that he'd "cried like a baby" during his captivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense of the Realm: Britain's Armed Forces Crisis | 4/19/2010 | See Source »

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