Word: stand-up
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...swollen ankles; he's a writer who seems happiest when he's listening to old records on his stereo, to nostalgic '60s music. The yuppie backlash comes into sharpest focus in CBS's sitcom Lenny. The head of this TV family is a blue-collar worker (played by stand-up comic Lenny Clarke) who grumbles like a 1990-model Ralph Kramden about everything from money troubles to his wife's use of yuppie buzz words. "Quality time?" he snaps. "You been watching thirtysomething again...
JUST FOR LAUGHS: THE MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL (Showtime, July 21, 10 p.m. EDT). Bob Newhart is host for a live stand-up extravaganza...
...jutting jaw, the breaking voice, the intense glare have long made Kirk Douglas a favorite of stand-up mimics. At age 73 he has finally decided to join their ranks. In his first novel, Dance with the Devil, Douglas offers impressions of Harold Robbins and Judith Krantz...
...dresses in a rhinestone-studded leather jacket, fills his routines with obscenities and has offended more people than any other stand-up comic since Lenny Bruce. The perfect guest host for NBC's cutting-edge comedy series Saturday Night Live? Well, Andrew Dice Clay may have looked good on paper. But when the Diceman cameth, two performers bowed out, and the show endured perhaps the most tumultuous week in its controversy-filled 15-year history...
...thuggish comic has been filling arenas with his raunchy stand-up routines. Last September, after a four-letter appearance on the MTV Video Music Awards, he was banned from the channel for life. He was tapped as SNL's guest host, according to insiders, only after other candidates (including Kyle MacLachlan of Twin Peaks) were not available. The producers defend Clay's appearance, however, as being in SNL's tradition of adventurous comedy. Says producer James Downey: "We don't feel we're endorsing everything he's ever done by having him on this show...