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...seems to give Samuel L. Jackson a run for his money with the amount of work he has done in film, theater, television, stand-up comedy and one-man shows. But John Leguizamo, 44, who stars in the ensemble dramedy Nothing Like the Holidays out Dec. 12, thinks carefully about his performances - training he got mostly from his work on shows like Freak and Mambo Mouth. Leguizamo talked with TIME about the new movie, marriage and the abrupt cancellation of his Broadway show American Buffalo...
...candidate Charles T. James ’10 and his running mate Max H. Y. Wong ’10 met each other only this semester, but within 15 minutes they knew they were going to run for the top two UC posts together. James is a part-time stand-up comic and government concentrator who hails from Jackson, Miss., which he describes in his light Southern accent as “one of the roughest neighborhoods” in the state. Wong is a lanky, violin-playing philosophy concentrator who says in his British accent that he has traveled...
...Harvard Salient, does not have a background in comedy, but found material on YouTube, including ads from the Lyndon B. Johnson-Barry Goldwater campaign of 1964, to help shape his campaign. His running mate, Alexandra A. Petri ’10, is a co-president of the Harvard Stand-Up Comedy Society and a member of On Harvard Time, making her one of four UC candidates this year who have worked on the show. She also writes a biweekly column for The Crimson...
...locked ward during a psychotic episode. She signed her commitment papers with a single word: shame. It's one of the few paragraphs in Wishful Drinking that doesn't contain a punch line; only when she writes about her brushes with madness does Fisher drop her manic stand-up shtick and let us see, for a moment, what it's there to cover up. Ironically, it's when she's describing herself at her craziest that she sounds the most sane...
...long as there have been stand-up comedians, there have been mother-in-law jokes, which, let's face it, are one of the easiest ways for male comics to get a cheap chuckle. But new research by a British psychologist shows that women actually have more to complain about when it comes to mothers-in-law. And they're not laughing...