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...left to the likes of Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison. Coven-like hairstyles are passe; so are Elizabeth Taylor fat jokes, delivered Uzi-style a la Joan Rivers, and the kind of masochistic self-deprecation that kept Phyllis Diller in face-lifts for two decades. The freshest funnywomen have power smiles, well-toned bodies and social commentary that ticks before it detonates...
Boosler's kind of routine, as Professor Barreca sees it, is one thing that tends to separate the girls from the boys. "Women tell stories," she says. "Men do one, two, three, bop." The new funnywomen are anything but rote jokesters: like Robin Williams or Billy Crystal,they invent routines as they go along. Paula Poundstone, whose stand-up is a sprawl across a stool, ad-libs about 30% every night. When she was too broke to redeem her outfits from the dry cleaner's, she included the angst in her monologue: "It's like, the clothes are in jail...
...season's first appearance of the Theatre Guild's famed Lunt & Fontanne is a perennial signal for critical hosannas, Elizabeth The Queen remains the sort of thing worst done by high school dramatic clubs, best done by the Guild. The Vanderbilt Revue. There are comparatively few funnywomen, none of whom are funnier than hearty, contagious, coarse Lulu McConnell. Four years ago she created the part of an immensely amusing low-life in a little show called Peggy Ann on the same stage to which she returned last week as the chief comic in The Vanderbilt Revue...