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...Stand-up comedy; HBO special; TV commercials touting restaurant chain...
Leary gets to do a couple minutes straight fromhis stand-up routine so the movie can present itsfirm conviction that a truly free society is onein which everyone eats a lot of red meat...
...most gripping, especially for a viewer unexperienced in Two Mikes's unique brand of comedy. The angst-ridden "Appointments" combines the neurotic charm of a Woody Allen movie with the structured morbidity of an Edgar Allan Poe story. Even for those who have only seen him do stand-up on Letterman, the opening close-up shot of Steven Wright's head is a sight unmistakable...
...order sitcom this fall. So do such TV veterans as John Larroquette, Valerie Bertinelli, Bronson Pinchot and Kelsey Grammer. Another group of shows has been constructed around performers with no track record, no Q rating, not even (in many cases) any acting experience at all, except on the stand-up comedy stage...
...sudden vogue for stand-up comedians is based on solid Nielsen evidence. First Roseanne and later Seinfeld, Home Improvement and Martin showed that joking at the Improv can be a springboard to prime-time success. Now producers and studio executives are scouring the comedy clubs for the next Tim Allen or Martin Lawrence. "It's a feeding frenzy," says a comedy producer. "A lot of these people you might cast as the second or third lead in an ensemble. But now, the studios want to build shows around them...