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...when people finally did get it, around 1976, they couldn't get enough of it. He had platinum comedy albums and a million-selling single (King Tut). He played to arenas of 20,000 people. As David Letterman once noted, "I think that's a record for a stand-up comedian in peacetime." Saturday Night Live's audience jumped by a million viewers when he was on. His phrases "Well, excuuuuse me!" and "wild and crazy guys" became schoolyard mantras. Steve Martin was the comic as rock star. And then he wasn't. He stopped cold in 1981 to concentrate...
...some dramatic changes inside the cabin. It removed seats and even made the aisles wider to create an "executive economy" section (full fare, round trip: $1,665). Once the plane was at cruising altitude I spent the first hour or so just getting used to the surroundings--exploring the stand-up bar Singapore Airlines created at the back of the coach section, ducking into one of the two windowed rest rooms or longing for the plush seats in business class...
Putting the Rockies’ remarkable, extraordinary, and astonishing 21-for-22 win streak aside, the personalities in Denver are second to none. Who can’t root for Helton, the perennial “best player on a bad team,” a stand-up guy who’s finally getting the shot he deserves...
...will be piling into Sanders Theatre this Saturday, not for a lecture on Locke’s property rights, but to see five comedians from across the nation cracking jokes for charity. On Saturday Oct. 20, at 8 p.m., the Harvard Concert Commission will present its third annual benefit stand-up comedy show, “Comedy for a Cause 2007.” All proceeds will go to Kiva.org, a microfinance not-for-profit organization that supports entrepreneurs in the developing world...
...Hamre, from South Dakota, is an affable 57-year-old who is known to be concerned about the health of the services in the future and yet managed to get along with Gates' predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld. As one longtime Pentagon official told TIME, "John is just an all around stand-up guy. We'd be lucky to have him back...