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There followed stand-up comedy dates at New York City nightspots and 25 appearances on the Tonight Show. Steinberg also cut two records featuring the offbeat brand of Old Testament humor that had become his trademark. "My sermons strike out in all directions," he says. "At the prophets, at myself, the clergy and at God. But when God comes off looking ridiculous, this is the God of the clergy...
...written prose displays the tongue-and-groove perfectionism of a genuine craftsman. "Allen is a marvel of a willing and hard-working writer," says Roger Angell, fiction editor of The New Yorker. "The first things he submitted to us were funny, but not really written; one heard a stand-up comic -good jokes, but just jokes. Allen has made himself an accomplished writer...
...dialogue is mostly stand-up comic patter, and the movie is virtually bereft of visual humor. Herbert Ross, who was also responsible for T.R. Baskin and the musical remake of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, continues to direct as if he were dressing a window at Bloomingdale's. Everything looks terribly fussy and sterile. Play It Again, Sam badly needs the headlong energy and comic chaos that Allen worked into Take the Money and Run and, especially, Bananas, both of which he directed himself. Allen's comedy is at its best when it is loose and utterly crazy, untouched...
Harvard Cabaret: The stand-up comedy of Al Franken. Loeb west lobby. After the mainstage show (about 10:45), May 4 and May 6. Cop-Out. A satire by John Guare. About 10:45, May 5. Feiffer on Review: skits by Jules Feiffer. About 10:45, May 7. .50 Food minimum...
Eddie (Albert Finney) hums a lot of '50s rock 'n' roll, and the closest he has got to Vegas is a workingman's club in Liverpool, where he works as a bingo caller and occasional stand-up comic, telling what might be called shaggy canary stories to the appreciative customers. As for The Maltese Falcon, Eddie isn't so much interested in writing it as living...