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When it comes to comedy careers, Carol Leifer has been there, done that. Besides being a popular stand-up comedian, Leifer, 52, is an Emmy-nominated writer and producer for work on shows like Seinfeld, Larry Sanders and Saturday Night Live. But it's her personal résumé that is the main focus of her entertaining new book, When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win (Villard). Leifer's notable relationship history has included two famous former boyfriends (comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Paul Reiser), one not-famous former husband, a female partner for the past 12 years...
...Charmed teachers into writing you glowing letters of rec, you’ll appreciate the jokes in the Immediate Gratification Players show (Fong Auditorium in Boylston, 8 p.m., free) and the Harvard College SUCS Stand-Up Comedy Blowout (Science Center...
...Harvard. “I’d just run amok, never show up at anything,” he said, of his potential move to Mass. Hall. Black graduated from the Yale Graduate School of Drama in 1977, and has since worked on many projects, including numerous stand-up shows and a sketch on “The Daily Show” with John Stewart entitled “Back in Black.” Black’s comedy style is defined by angry tirades at social and political issues. Students were receptive to yesterday?...
...music, film and arts festivals in America. From seasoned veterans like PJ Harvey to unknown bands hoping to make it big, the weeklong festival is a mecca for hipster PBR-drinking music nuts. But amid all the unwashed dye jobs and American Apparel outfits will be Margaret Cho, the stand-up comedian who will appear at SXSW - as a musician? Cho talked to TIME about her sudden career switch. (See pictures from South by Southwest...
...very beautiful. One of the ones I'm doing with Patty Griffin is an imagined duet with me and my dog. You know, if my dog could sing to me, what would he say? That one is sort of whimsical, but others are real raunchy. It's like my stand-up comedy but in song form. (See pictures of the history of stand-up comedy...