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...bench was sitting up and all eyes were on Jimmy Langton as he hit a stand-up triple to center field. Stan Cal promptly sent him home with a single...
...were still so young--Franken is 24, Davis 23--that comedians constantly caution them "not to burn out." Franken, sitting in his comfortable chair, was not disturbed. His only worry, he said, was when he would get a vacation from his writing job, not to relax, but to perform stand-up comedy...
...complaint is the fact that there is another person trapped in that joke-Sophie Portnoy, the archetypal castrating Jewish mother, standing over her little boy with a stainless steel bread knife when he refuses to eat. The joke is a funny one, no doubt-and by elevating a stand-up routine into a comic art form, Philip Roth gave popular American culture the definitive stereotype of the Jewish mother. As for the Jewish grandmother, she is merely Sophie Portnoy writ large...
...Stand-Up Desk. An exuberant, energetic man with boyish good looks that are enhanced by aviator-type glasses, Rumsfeld prowls restlessly around his large corner office-he calls it "the cellophane box"-in a corner of the White House's West Wing, just a few quick paces from the Oval Office. He works at a stand-up desk, whisking through the papers that flow into the White House, then composing memos on a Dictaphone to be transcribed by one of his two secretaries...
John Kani held and played with the audience through his 45-minute monlogue with the comic sense and gyrating energy of a stand-up comic. But his jokes are corny, deliberately innocent of the contrivance of real jokes or comic routines. And we laugh because he laughs, that infectious, throaty, all-teeth laugh that quakes from his chest. He wants us to be happy, with the urgent eagerness of a child wanting to share a joke with his mother...