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Prenatal Work. Brooks' tone is usually foxy and sardonic, but his technique varies according to where and how he is working. He will shape his material specifically for a medium the way a stand-up comedian will tailor a monologue to suit an individual audience. Making a guest appearance on a TV variety show, Brooks will contrive a bit like Dave the ventriloquist that will capitalize on the occasion and parody it at the same time. Says his friend Director Steven Spielberg (Jaws): "Albert is not only the funniest but the most visual humorist working today...
Bogdanovich's movies (like What's Up, Doc? and Paper Moon) are so smugly derivative of other, older directors that they seem virtually selfless. In his various media appearances, he comes on either as an unwired stand-up comic or an eager foil for Cybill Shepherd, his well-publicized but untalented girl friend. One has to go back to Targets, Bogdanovich's exciting first feature, to remember that he was a director of talent and promise...
Parent puts them all to work with a "stand-up" system. Many goalies use a flop-and-stop technique, dropping to their knees or falling all the way into a split to block the puck with their heavy leg pads. The maneuver has two drawbacks: the 6-oz. vulcanized rubber disk can slip between his legs as the goalie flops; and once he is on the ice, he is helpless against rebound shots. Parent's approach, copied from his idol and teacher, Stand-Up Master Jacques Plante, requires more finesse but provides far tighter defense against rebounds. When attackers...
Brooks' comedy career began on the schoolyard circuit-a bright, bookish, undersized Brooklyn kid who learned fast that he could keep bigger boys at bay by making them laugh. In his early teens he was touring Catskills resorts as a stand-up comic and drummer. At 30 he was making $2,500 a week writing Your Show of Shows with his old Catskills pal Comedian Sid Caesar...
LENNY BRUCE is dead. George Carlin has sold out to the interests. Mel Brooks is out of ideas. Robert Klein is all washed up. Woody Allen doesn't do much stand-up anymore. Where can you go to get a few uncorrupted laughs...