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...That's very Irish Catholic thing, having a fascination with women... a lot of comedy for me has always been in my failings. It's a fertile area, if you start to talk about how your prom date didn't go well. Look at Seinfeld-a lot of stand-up comedy is about relationships not working out. It gets harder once you have your own TV show, people are like 'yeah right, you have problems.' It's funny that I interact with supermodels, because I was this guy who had trouble getting a date in high school...
...know we're getting a solid, stand-up goaliewhose style is very good, his size is good and hedoesn't make the first move," Farwell added."We're optimistic that he'll become a very goodplayer...
...Back the Night here at Harvard decided to express their disapproval in ways that went beyond the mere printed word. At last Thursday's rally in the MAC quadrangle three men marched up to the microphone and began to conduct what appeared to be their own version of a stand-up misogynistic comedy routine. Talking gleefully about their experiences at a pro-choice rally with "rabid feminists," the trio managed to remain at the microphone for about 30 seconds before hisses from the crowd and one woman's marching up to the microphone to verbalize her own disapproval made them...
...Vegas impresarios took a dying strain of vaudeville and turned it into a highly particular Vegas style. Gamblers from Duluth and Atlanta came to see only-in-Vegas entertainments: Sinatra, Streisand, stand-up comedians, the trash rococo of Liberace, both flaunting and denying his gayness; hot-ticket singer-dancers like Ann-Margret; and shows with whiffy themes that existed as mere pretexts for bringing out brigades of suggestively costumed young women jiggling through clouds of pastel-colored smoke as overamped pop tunes blared. It was cheesy glamour, to be sure, but it was rare and one of a kind...
Back when the Rat Pack ruled, Jackie Mason played Vegas and Edward Albee was on Broadway. Today essentially idea-free spectacle -- The Phantom of the Opera, Cats -- dominates New York City's so-called legitimate theater, and stand-up comedy is ubiquitous. In the '90s, Friars Club comedians like Mason have hit Broadway shows, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical Starlight Express has been permanently installed in the showroom of the Las Vegas Hilton. The crossbreeding seems complete...