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...albums are shots in the old vein-Veterans Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks with their 2000 and Thirteen-year-old man or the literate stand-up style of David Steinberg's Booga Booga. But the hottest newcomers are the "rock" comics, whose pot-and pop-flavored material is aimed directly at the under-30 funny bone...
Jerry Cutler was born into a family of rabbis. While training as an Orthodox rabbi in Brooklyn, though, he used to slip up to the Catskill resorts on weekends, where he did a stand-up comic shtik using the name Jerry Herring. His fellow students at the yeshiva took a dim view of his enchantment with show business. On his return to classes from the Catskills, they would mutter in Yiddish: "Der bum iz du [The bum is here]." All the same, Cutler was ordained at 24 and served a Conservative congregation in Stamford, Conn., before becoming a reviewer...
...Christmas catalogue. "Very basically, it's enclosure, the womb," declares the environment's design chief, Richard Stonis. While it is not exactly Walden Pond, the plush private world is like a self-contained dollhouse that can be outfitted with film screens to show custom-made movies, a stand-up bar, isometric exercise equipment, a round water bed and anything else the purchaser might desire...
...claims to be a stand-up comedian of sorts, and he is a former rock musician. He is also living proof of the proposition that though Old Fugs never die, maybe they ought to. Kupferberg gave us a bad dose of anti-war humor dating back not just to the Vietnam conflict but to Rudyard Kipling's aunt. He followed with a skit on New York subway bathrooms and a slide show that sought humor in dildoes, inflatable men and comic books...
...Reservations. Jaworski gets high marks from lawyers who know him. Although President Chesterfield Smith of the American Bar Association would prefer a completely independent prosecutor, he says of Jaworski: "It's a fabulous appointment. I have absolutely no reservations about his competency and integrity. He's a stand-up guy. If he's shoved, he will shove back...