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...Leary lacks the oratorical grace of Gray (Swimming to Cambodia) or the comic wisdom of monologist Eric Bogosian (Talk Radio), but he's learning. "When Leary first started doing stand-up, like all of us -- he sucked," says comic Eddie Brill, Emerson '80, a friend. That began to change after Leary's father died of a heart attack in 1985. In response to such an event, says Brill, "you can either go into a fetal position or do what Leary did -- just lash out. He became really deep and really funny...
Since TV's birth, the funny weatherman has been the medium's primal infotainment guy, a stand-up comic who uses lively banter and cute graphics to sell a lot of dull data about isobars. Phil Connors (Murray) is an ace at his job; he has the patter down pat. But he's been working under his own high- pressure system too long. Off camera, to his producer, Rita (Andie MacDowell), and his cameraman, Larry (Chris Elliott), Phil is a captious creep. They would be thrilled to hear that he has been lost in space...
...hour-long show, financed entirely by the council, filled Science Center D to capacity. Students crowded the aisles and spilled out the back of the theater, giving new meaning to the phrase "stand-up comedy...
...happy because it'll be on at 11:30. I was a fan of his when he was doing stand-up in the late 70's, and he's still the same. I don't think his style will change, New York or L.A. it's all the same," said Manuel S. Varela...
Still, a Letterman-vs.-Leno matchup would be one of the most intriguing in TV history. Though they are nearly the same age (Letterman is 45, Leno 42) and have similar roots in stand-up comedy, the two seem to represent different show-business generations. Letterman, with his subversive antics and ironic attitude, does not so much act as host for a talk show as satirize talk shows. He is following a trail blazed by Carson, who introduced a self-parodying subtext. Carson's famous "savers" -- ad-libs to salvage jokes that bombed -- along with his conspiratorial asides...