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...fight the suspicion and ignorance he encountered in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. In 2003 he co-founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival, which runs this week in Manhattan. Obeidallah spoke with TIME about bridging cultures, the fading "siege" against Arab-Americans and taking stand-up to the Middle East. (See pictures of the history of stand-up comedy...
...Football Championship in the bag. But even such a stunning victory might have been quickly forgotten if not for LevSPN, the YouTube channel dedicated to Leverett sporting and musical events. Featuring videos covering everything from swimming to singing to stand-up comedy, LevSPN forever immortalizes the heroic efforts of Leverett students...
...Matt Weinberg, the Associate Project Manager for Arts First, came from actor John A. Lithgow ’67. Weinberg contends that the Queen’s Head is an ideal venue for alternative artistic performers like Captain and Captain and Captain and Tennille and rock bands and stand-up comedians. “We want the rock bands to play as loud as they want and at the Queen’s Head they can do that,” he says. Rather than being a typical music show, this performance is a multimedia experience. “It?...
...Tell me about the beginning of your career. Was it really hard to get started as a female stand-up comedian? In those days, when I started stand-up in the late '70s, it felt so easy to get into stand-up because there were so few people doing it and so few women. I always saw it as a tremendous advantage, and I always tell women that if you're in the minority in whatever you do, there are advantages to that which I think are enormous. Especially in a performing way. It sets you apart. It was kind...
...doing stand-up now? Yes. I'm still doing my stand-up. I learned very quickly in my Seinfeld years - I got a little lax about it, and then I went onstage after not having been onstage for a while, and it was like, oops. If you don't use it, you lose it, and I saw that it's a really nifty skill to have learned, especially so early in my life when you're not fully formed, to have all the fear mechanisms in place. I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because...