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...Harvard community will get a glimpse of comedian Jay Leno's anvil-shaped jaw on Wednesday when the stand-up comic accepts the Harvard Lampoon's Elmer award...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comic Jay Leno to Accept Elmer Award | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

Leno was chosen by the Lampoon staff to receive the award, "for lifetime acheivement in comedy...He has established himself as the leading stand-up comedian. And everyone likes his giant chin," said David S. Cohen '88, outgoing president of the Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comic Jay Leno to Accept Elmer Award | 2/29/1988 | See Source »

...comedienne currently tours the country for at least two weeks out of each month. Snow says the best thing about traveling with her stand-up is "seeing fresh faces in a place where I've never worked before...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Snow Makes Sailors Come Ashore | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

Unlike her idol Garry Shandling, Snow does not want to do a television series full time. "I love my stand-up. I'm not saying that I'm Gandhi but I do have something...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: Snow Makes Sailors Come Ashore | 2/19/1988 | See Source »

...American Ballet Theater's $350,000 production of Gaite Parisienne, which opened last month in Tampa and is now touring the U.S. The dancing was effervescent, but the stars of the show were the sassy, spectacular costumes served up from the sketch pad of the host. Gaite was a stand-up, cheering hit. After the lights went up, Lacroix joined the crowds and danced the farandole, the heels-up peasant dance of Provence. He hoofed it until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Voila! It's Fun a Lacroix | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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