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...chansonniers are back. Those uniquely French stand-up political satirists had fallen relatively dormant during the less controversial, more prosperous Giscard era. Now they are thriving as never before and playing to full houses in the Théâtre des Deux Anes and other pocket-size theaters on the garish lower slopes of Montmartre. If the audience claps with delight, it is not at the Socialist government's heavenly victory so much as at the sight of the great and powerful being ridiculed. "The French have always enjoyed making fun of their politicians," exults Comedian Pierre Douglas...
...already has the talent and the facility of delivering. All you, as a director, have to know is what you want and how to express it...." In this case, Zieff gives Moore enough room to reveal a wide range of comic talents without turning the movie into an extended stand-up routine...
Randy Newman: Trouble in Paradise (Warner Bros.). Part stand-up comedy, part The Day of the Locust: Newman's best since 1972's Sail Away...
Last year Murphy recorded an album of his stand-up comedy at the Comic Strip in Manhattan, where a few years earlier he had been working for peanut shells. The LP, an undisciplined 48 minutes mixing raunchy insults with on-target family humor, copped two Grammy nominations and has sold 250,000 copies...
Murphy is his own greatest booster, his own severest critic. "One drawback to making it so young," he notes dispassionately, "is that I have to grow in the public eye. I still think of myself as a stand-up comedian, a performer, not a movie actor. Certainly not, at this point, a movie star. I do still get a kick out of seeing myself on a movie screen, 30 ft. high, though the oh-wow-I'm-in-a-movie period has left me. Some day, I'd like to produce and direct pictures. But the biggest kick...