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Harrison R. Greenbaum ’08 does it for the anxiety. “Stand-up is the most adrenaline-fueled performance art,” he says. Right from the start of his journey towards creating a comedy institution on campus, he felt that anxiety.In January of 2007, Greenbaum, along with David Ingber ’07, got Harvard’s first ever student organization devoted to stand-up comedy approved as an official club. They called it the Harvard Stand-Up Comedy Society, or HSUCS. Say that acronym out loud once or twice and you?...
...that comic over there? He SUCS. Bet you never heard that as a compliment. But among those familiar with Harvard Stand-Up Comic Society (HSUCS), it’s considered high praise indeed. HARVARD: SUCS-ING SINCE JANUARY 2007While the club was originally recognized at the beginning of 2007, its founding members—alumnus David W. Ingber ’07 and Harrison R. Greenbaum ’08—were already participating in a growing comedic presence on Harvard’s campus. Greenbaum, a magician by trade who was later bitten by the stand...
...just wanted to get away from that. I missed people yelling at me and treating me like a regular guy." After a few months of doing not much besides playing pool every afternoon at a billiards hall on the Upper West Side, Seinfeld decided to return to being a stand-up comic. During his years of working on the show in Los Angeles, he says, he longed for the "griminess of the stand-up world." Even today, he says, "whenever I have the opportunity to go to an old bar in New York that has that smell-that beer-soaked...
...Katzenberg says animation appealed to Seinfeld "because he's a perfectionist, and it's probably the only form of moviemaking where you can actually get near perfection." Seinfeld disagrees, describing himself as "obsessive, yes; perfectionist, no." For more than three years during production, Seinfeld continued his stand-up gigs on weekends and also oversaw everything from Bee Movie's casting to the most minute hand movements of the animated characters. (He began flying out to the DreamWorks studio so often, in fact, that he eventually rented a house in Bel Air, Calif.) During the final stages of production in August...
...minutes, Seinfeld will fly east, just in time for son Shepherd's birthday, and he's looking forward to spending a few days with his family in the Hamptons. Still, he's perfectly happy right where he is-on the road, going to or from one stand-up gig or another. "I had a really good time tonight," he says as the car pulls into the airport. "I'm a comedian again...