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Speaking generally on politics at the ARCO Forum Friday night, comedian Jon Stewart coupled self-deprecating humor with wicked comic jabs to keep the audience rolling in the aisles...
Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s news parody “The Daily Show,” spoke to an audience of 800 at the Forum and 200 who watched the talk live from two overflow rooms in the latest installment of the Institute of Politics (IOP) humor series...
Moderator Josh I. Weiner ’03, one of the founders of the IOP humor series, began the evening by citing a recent Pew Center study that showed more young people get their news from late night talk shows than from standard news sources...
...Zhang says he has learned to ignore such carping. But in recent years, he seems to have taken it to heart. In his heartwarming Not One Less (1999) he deftly sweetened a story about the bitter plight of impoverished rural schoolchildren with lighthearted humor and an almost cloyingly cheerful ending. The dusting of sugar made it palatable to audiences and censors alike without weakening its searing social commentary. But at times his compromises have yielded less success. His last film, Happy Times, was originally conceived as a tale of laid-off workers struggling for dignity while submitting themselves to ever...
...humor is only part of Du Puy’s very un-Harvard attitude. “Freshman year I thought I would be so interesting,” says Du Puy, who describes himself as shy but unconventional. “But in retrospect, I haven’t been.” This comes from a classics and music concentrator who worked on his class’ first-year musical, has performed in several shows, rings the Lowell House bells, tried out for X-Rated “on a whim” and ended up being...