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...have been perfect for Stu, the amiable, henpecked dentist; but Ed Helms, Carell's cohort on The Daily Show and The Office, costs so much less. Now for Alan, the roly-poly cute guy with a surfeit of energy and a sociopathic streak: can't afford Jack Black, give stand-up comic Zach Galifianakis a chance. OK, we got ourselves a movie...
Chris Spags, 24, who works full-time in public relations and performs stand-up comedy part-time, created the site about a month ago. In an e-mail to TIME, Spags wrote that the point of Maybe You Shouldn't Buy That is to "take a look at our excesses as a society rather than just go, 'Hey, silly pictures.'" But this is a recession, and everyone's hoping to capitalize in one way or another. Spags admits that he would like to use the site as a springboard for a possible book deal, but feels that "any revenue...
...June 17, I'm gonna step out onto the famed Carnegie Hall stage in New York City and do my usual foulmouthed brand of stand-up Q&A for a mix of society swells and bridge-and-tunnel stoners at the most well-known theater on the planet...
Since 9/11 you've begun performing all over the Arab world. I was surprised to read that a stand-up festival you helped organize in Amman was the very first in the Middle East...
They definitely have a history of sketch comedy and comedy films, but our form of stand-up comedy - standing on a stage and telling jokes - was something unknown. My dad would always ask, "And they pay you for this...