Word: stand-up
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...repertoire includes sarcasm, mimicry, hyperbole, irony, parables, analogies and allusions. He poses questions and answers them, sets up philosophical straw men and knocks them down. He begins slowly and gains momentum; he races up the hill of one sentence and coasts down another. His timing is that of a stand-up comic. His voice can be as soothing as a late-night disk jockey's or as rumbling as an Old Testament prophet's. He can, on occasion, be shrill, edging toward the sanctimonious. But always one hears a man who is actually thinking while he speaks...
After he was drafted in NHL amateur draft following his freshman year, Blair was also starting to think about the pros. His distinctive stand-up style had won him admirers and was cleary suited to the pro game...
...graduate of Harvard Law School, Wachs began his show business career when he and a partner opened a club called The Comic Strip in New York in 1979. Murphy first appeared there as a stand-up comic in 1979, and later on NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live...
Instead, a gallery of unforgettable characters keeps popping up to take our minds off of "Poor Ross," and McElwee's periodic monologues, generally spoken to the camera as he lies scratching himself in his pajamas, are tour-de-force, unrehearsed stand-up routines. If Ebert/Siskel ever decide to review this film, which they won't because no one gets exploited, I vote they show the four-minute passage where McElwee discusses Sherman with his pal the camera while dressed in a Confederate uniform and swilling good Southern Scotch...
...first four games, I was putting too much, pressure on myself," the Crimson's all-time save leader said. "I'm a stand-up goalie, I can't be tight and thinking out there...