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...adds. “We’re all in it together.” “Anyone who is in HSUCS can be in a Broadway show, which is pretty huge,” Greenbaum says in reference to the success of the production. Harvard funnymen like Nathan J. Dern ’07 and Baratunde R. Thurston ’99 were frequent performers at the Sage Theater during its run. Thurston now hosts the show. “[Ingber and Greenbaum are] really trying to build us a base, with connections to Harvard comics...
...home studio, to sever relations last year. In addition to the dearth of action stars, there's the zeitgeist to contend with: in internationally edgy times, intimate comedy gives an audience more comfort than blow-up-the-world melodrama. So it's out with the musclemen, in with the funnymen...
Lately the Class Day appointment has taken on a comedic flavor, with five of the last seven speakers plying their trade as funnymen. The list since 2000 includes late night host Conan O’Brien ’85, former “Saturday Night Live” stars Will Ferrell and Al Franken ’73, “Da Ali G Show” creator Sacha Baron Cohen, and Seth MacFarlane, the creator of the popular television show “Family...
...air.David Rees felt the same sorrow, confusion, and anger. “In New York City after 9-11 you could literally smell death,” he recalls. “It was dreadful.” But he had an entirely different reaction from those other funnymen. He decided to make a comic strip.Five years later, that strip, “Get Your War On,” (GYWO) has turned David Rees into one of America’s most forceful satirical voices. His success has brought him back to Harvard Square—a place where...
...course, this meant Christmas had come early for late-night funnymen such as Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien. (As a comedic target, New Jersey has been taking hits for far longer—indeed, since the days of Vaudeville—than Bill Clinton, Viagra and Martha Stewart.) Leno quipped that regardless of the Nets’ and Devils’ success, New Jersey’s most feared outfit was still the Sopranos. “According to a newspaper poll,” he added, “75 percent of New Jersey residents rate...