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...Undergraduate Council approved a contract last night to bring stand-up comic Jon Stewart to Harvard, the first council-sponsored big-name comedy event since Steven Wright performed here two year...
...approach us. He doesn't work through an agent. We sought him out because we think he's on the verge of becoming the next big comic sensation," Aronberg said...
...business where success is fleeting and burnout comes fast, Carson's durability is not only unprecedented, it is almost unimaginable. An Iowa-born, Nebraska-raised standup comic and host of a popular game show, Who Do You Trust?, Carson replaced Jack Paar as host of NBC's Tonight show on Oct. 1, 1962. His tenure on the program has lasted for two-thirds of the time that national TV has existed. He has hosted the show long enough to have had Judy Garland, Groucho Marx, Joan Crawford and Hubert Humphrey as guests. If Jay Leno lasts as long...
THIS IS MY LIFE. "And my mother wants to be a stand-up comic." In Nora Ephron's adorable yet unsentimental comedy, Dottie Ingels (Julie Kavner) is an up-to-date Stella Dallas: an Everymom whose greatest responsibility is to live for herself...
...action is episodic, and most characters are fleeting, placing more stress on Dunne's performance than his lightweight, ingratiating style can bear. The first act is expository and lamely comic, acutely lacking the menace and madness that make the second act crackle. Sometimes the play is a chilling rumination on '80s greed. Sometimes it's merely upper Miami Vice. In either vein, it is supremely cynical. Korder asserts with equal force that run-amuck individualism is appalling and that it is the one sure path to triumph...