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...increasingly crowded stand-up stage, Carlin remains in a spotlight by himself. Most current TV comics are interchangeable: dispensing predictable, painless gags about '90s values, sexual gamesmanship, TV sitcoms and Dan Quayle. After three decades in the business, Carlin, who turns 54 this week, is still testing the limits, challenging his audience, shouting from the depths of his social-activist soul...
...Live concerts? His management company boasts a roster of such seminal rap performers as Run-DMC, Public Enemy, LL Cool J and 3rd Bass. Television? His broadcast and film-production company turns out the popular Home Box Office show Russell Simmons' Def Comedy Jam, a weekly showcase for black stand-up comics. Nobody has done more than Simmons, 34, to move rap -- or hip- hop, as aficionados call it -- from the streets of the inner city into the mainstream of American pop culture...
Woody Allen began his writing career while still in high--school he developed one-liners for other comedians and eventually performed his own stand-up routines. He based his stand-up act on self-created, fictitious character full of neuroses. Allen's selfmade image has pervaded the movie characters he portrays, causing an inseparable image of Woody the character and the man to persist to this...
...comedians suggest that the Tonight show will turn Leno into an electronic vaudevillian, a video jokemeister. He worries about that. "I went from telling jokes to telling stories," he says, "and now I'm back to telling jokes." He is concerned about becoming detached from his audience. As a stand-up, Leno traveled to your door like a salesman; now he's popping into your bedroom without ever leaving the studio...
THIS IS MY LIFE. "And my mother wants to be a stand-up comic." In Nora Ephron's adorable yet unsentimental comedy, Dottie Ingels (Julie Kavner) is an up-to-date Stella Dallas: an Everymom whose greatest responsibility is to live for herself...