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Though many Harvardians get their kicks just from the looks of their peers, there may be a better source of humor on campus. Members of the Harvard College Stand Up Comics Society have been invited to the stand-up division of the RooftopComedy’s National College Comedy Competition Tournament, exclusively designed to discover the “funniest” students in America. The bracket-style tournament bases acceptance on the comedic value of clips submitted by college stand-up groups. “There are eight people from each school, and two schools go head-to-head...
Some of them are respected scientists. Some of them are psychologists. At least one of them is a briefly married former TV-morning-show host. A surprising number of them are stand-up comedians. And they all want to give you dating advice. If you're single and don't wish to be, have they got a TV show/book/scientific theory for you! As if you haven't suffered enough...
Piqued by criticism that her career is more hype than substance, Royal says her detractors "are all contemptuous of me" before boasting "I'm so far ahead of them all." And responding to derision that her infamous September 2008 rally was a mix of infomercial, stand-up comedy and political televangelism, Royal upped the ante. "You have to be a moron to scream about sacrilege, about cultish [behavior] when everyone is in ecstasy over [Barack] Obama's campaign," she says in the book, echoing her contention when Obama was sworn in last month that the new U.S. President had "copied...
...surprising, and wonderful, thing happened after Carlin's death. The outpouring of praise from his comedy peers, and a bounty of clips from his nearly 50 years of stand-up, amounted to more than just the obligatory Hollywood sendoff for another departed star. They actually helped make the case for Carlin's immense importance in the world of comedy, a case never made during his lifetime. And so, the ceremony in which Carlin was posthumously awarded the annual Mark Twain Prize in American Humor - taped last November at the Kennedy Center, and airing on PBS on Wednesday...
...Richard Zoglin's book, Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America, has just been published in paperback...