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...doing things everyone else wants to do but doesn't have the guts to go through with." Still, it would be wrong to assume Weinstein's comedy is an all-out assault on taste. The philosophy major also plays trumpet for the marching band and does an occasional stand-up comedy routine that would probably get by even the most stringent censors...
...finest ..." Is it possible that Norfolk produced some other talent that elected to hang around Main Street or stay down on the farm? Can it be that somewhere in the great Midwest there is a native-born comedian who opens a meeting of the Jaycees with seven minutes of stand-up comedy, then brings on the other members of the chamber to sit on a sofa and spin out their schemes and notions for promotion? Is there, somewhere, another Johnny Carson...
Carson provides nightly exhibitions of almost unrivaled technical skills, little seminars in comedy and verbal brinkmanship that can be both tutorials for the trade and, for the paying customers, a standard against which other stand-up comedy is measured. In Johnny Goes Home, Carson is shown doing something else uncharacteristic: losing his grip. Dangling from a railroad bridge as a freight rumbles above him, his arms give out and he tumbles into the water close beneath. Walking ashore, he laughs and says, "If I'd waited another five seconds I would have made it." Historians of comedy, take note...
Sometimes Bill Moyers as commentator sits at Dan Rather's elbow; a few nights later he can be doing a stand-up broadcast in a Warsaw square, newly arrived but confident and omniscient as ever. Over at NBC, John Chancellor, no longer at the anchorman's desk but sitting to one side, talks with pictures and maps, and seems happier as a commentator than as a news reader. Temperamentally, he has always been an explainer. These appearances are a long way from the days of Eric Sevareid, looking handsomely lugubrious and furrowed, as he made a few rueful...
Vulgarity has helped to make Pryor one of America's foremost stand-up comedians. His constant barrage of obscenities is so over-whelming that it eventually has a numbing effect; after a while, one ceases to notice the four-letter words and obscene gestures...