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...Waite ’10, a Winthrop resident who is publisher of the Salient and was its managing editor last year. He is also a member of Harvard Right to Life. His running mate is Alexandra A. Petri ’10, who is co-president of the Harvard Stand-Up Comedy Society. and a Crimson columnist “Roger is hoping to cast the UC process in a more humorous light.” said Petri, “One of our main concerns is pulling the joke vote.” The other ticket...
...makes you laugh. “Soul Men” is dedicated to both Mac and Isaac Hayes, who makes a cameo in the film and died a day after Mac. A tribute to Mac rolls throughout the film’s closing credits, consisting of outtakes and stand-up bits he did on-set during breaks in production. In terms of both comedy and emotionality, Mac’s raw and honest performance here is almost better than the movie that precedes it. It makes you feel as if, despite knowing who Mac was, you are just now really...
...first few minutes of “Mnemonic,” the audience is asked by a psychology professor turned stand-up comedian (Rory N. Kulz ’08-’09) to put on sleeping masks and go back to a time most people probably have some trouble remembering: our very first day of school. He asks the audience to remember our parents leading us by the hand, to imagine their parents behind them and their parents behind them, and so on. He asks us to trace our entire lineage through the veins of a fallen tree...
...same name. As a pimp surrounded by a group of kung fu--fighting prostitutes, Dolemite became a blaxploitation icon. Moore, however, found fault with the term, once telling a reporter, "I never heard The Godfather called 'Italian exploitation.'" Unbeknownst to many, Dolemite was first part of Moore's stand-up comedy routine, becoming a ghetto hero long before hitting the big screen. Moore...
...Carlos, an alumnus of Brown’s improv comedy troupe “Improvidence,” says he agrees with the thrust of Trojan’s cause and was glad to come back to Harvard to do stand-up and distribute condoms. “I don’t know if it’s the economy or something, but people are just hoarding them,” Carlos says. “The weirdest thing was, MIT didn’t want...