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...This is the trademark Huckabee style: two parts comedian, two parts common-man populist, and all conservative pol. As they did on the campaign trail in Iowa, Huckabee's political speeches can still have the pacing of a stand-up comedy routine. "Obama got his speech, according to the media, on two tablets of stone, postmarked Mt. Sinai," he jokes one minute. "My dad used to say, 'Son, don't look so far up your family tree. There is stuff up there you don't need to see,' " he deadpans the next...
...Mike Huckabee, who thanked the media for unifying the Republican Party and praised Barack Obama's historic achievement before filleting him for his "ideas from Europe" and his willingness to "give madmen the benefit of the doubt." Rudy Giuliani, the veteran New York prosecutor doing part jury summation, part stand-up, swept swing voters into his arms and danced. He told McCain's heroic story yet again, but this time it was to set up a relentless contrast to the Ivy League guy who rose through Chicago-machine politics to reach the state legislature and vote "present" 130 times because...
...think I could do anything else. I'd probably be a crackhead, maybe a drug dealer or seller of bootleg movies--something like that. Something easy and illegal. I started doing stand-up when I was around 13 years old, so this is all I've ever really wanted...
...slurs (''How do you like those Hispanic chicks who dye their hair blond? That's an attractive look. No wonder some Spanish guys are ready to rape any white woman who comes along''.) As for Ted Danson, he's still dealing with the fallout from a rare stab at stand-up comedy. Appearing at a Friars Club roast for his lover, Whoopi Goldberg, Danson wore blackface makeup, made crude jokes about their sex life and freely used a common derogatory word for black people. New York City Mayor David Dinkins was offended, and talk-show host Montel Williams resigned from...
...Carlin's career and his comedy were anything but a downer. He was unique among his contemporaries in remaining a top-drawing stand-up comic for more than 40 years, with virtually no help from movies or TV sitcoms. His influence can be seen everywhere, from the observational comedy of Jerry Seinfeld to the political rants of Lewis Black. He helped take stand-up comedy to the very center of American culture. It has never left...