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...steely rage. Her climactic revelations, hokey on the page, sound torn from the depths of a great and dangerous soul. She has less to do in Black Comedy, but as a spinster liberated in the dark -- literally -- to indulge dreamy fantasies of booze and sex, she melds exquisite comic timing and gesture with spontaneous sweetness...
...always the longest shot in the late-night horse race. As a ; prospective talk-show host, Chevy Chase brought too little experience and too much ego. His competition was too entrenched, his audience too ill-defined, his comic sensibility too dated. Nothing short of a miracle, it seemed, could make...
...idea-starved industry, the club comics bring some important assets. Even without acting credentials, they know how to get laughs. Often they have developed a stage persona, or an attitude, or at the very minimum a few well- tested gag lines. Yet delivering one-liners is not the same as creating a character. For every comic who has made a successful transition to prime time, there are others (Jackie Mason, Richard Lewis) who have been sabotaged by their own limitations or by the rickety contraptions built for them...
While there has been no clear legal victory inthe battle over Title IX, gender equity seems tobe winning the war for public sympathy. Lastmonth, Jeff Millar and Bill Hinds, creators of thesports comic strip Tank McNamara, made fun of thecoaches of men's sports, many of whom fear thatthe movement for gender equity will hurt theirteams...
...Nothing in particular inspired me to mentionit," says Millar, who writes the comic strip."It's just one issue that's going around thesports industry that I thought was worthy ofmention...