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Onstage he's as manic as ever, sweating by the pint as his body bounds around, trying to keep up with the rapid-fire humor synapses of his brain. His jokes run from nonsensical (wet-burka competitions and "Enron Hubbard, head of the Church of Profitology") to predictable ("We used to pay for powder in little white envelopes"). Comedians who play closer to the edge, like Chris Rock or Andy Dick, make his style seem quaint. But Robin Williams' improv is still an amazing high-wire act. "It's a risk if it doesn't work," he told TIME last...
...knows his humor is not as cynically rebellious as some of the younger comics'. (See above joke.) But it is still more spontaneous than most. He has no gagwriters and goes onstage without a scripted routine, an activity that he compares to walking in the wilderness with Ray Charles. In two try-out shows in a casino by Lake Tahoe last month, he changed about half the material from one night to the next. The Chicago show last week was about one-third new material again. This is the most exhausting way to do comedy. Yet unlike those comedians...
Over midnight sushi in Chicago, he is still popping with energy, happy the first show of the tour went so well. The mix of humor seemed about right; the crowd laughed along with the political jokes as well as the Viagra routines. "The political stuff is the reason to come back out," he says. "I think there is a kind of responsibility [for a comedian] to talk about what everyone is going through. A lot of comedy comes from fear. It's having a take on things that people are maybe thinking but not expressing. That's when...
...playing the sinister leader of a criminal gang in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 cult film Reservoir Dogs. DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, irreverent comedian and founding member of The Goon Show, the anarchic 1950s radio series co-starring Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers that redefined modern British humor; in Rye, England. Milligan started his career at the age of 15 singing in music halls. Injured as a soldier during WW II, he first experienced the mental illness that was to haunt him for the rest of his life. When the The Goon Show ended in 1960, Milligan became...
...Ruttledge and Kate are called upon by John Quinn, the local womanizer always looking for chances to “get into the boggy hollow,” they are obliged to welcome him just as they would their best friends. The villagers’wry, patient sense of humor makes such a mix of people endurable; gossip makes them interesting. Jamesie is guilessly fascinated by the details of other people’s lives. But his wife recognizes that the importance of knowing other people runs far deeper than entertainment. “‘People we know...