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...Some people think women have a harder time in stand-up comedy because it's an aggressive art form...
...joking stopped for stand-up comedian Paula Poundstone in 2001, when she was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol with her adopted children in the car. Allegations of child abuse were later dropped, and she pleaded guilty to a felony charge of child endangerment, was sentenced to probation and spent six months in a rehab facility. She's back on the stand-up circuit and is out with a book, There's Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say (Harmony), in which she talks about her legal problems - and many other things - through the lives...
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...come to accept my outsider status,” says anthropology and comparative study of religion concentrator Nathan J. Dern ’07. Lead singer of Star Wars tribute band So Long Princess and hopeful stand-up comic, Dern has indie status on this campus. But come this January, with the premiere of the CW Television Network’s third season of “Beauty and the Geek,” it just might be the case that Dern’s outsider status is revoked for good. Last April, while handing out flyers for his improv...
...were reminiscent of Dane Cook, and everyone laughed when he explained how he cracked the code on Judaism: comparing the faith to “a party you didn’t get invited to.”Ingber and Greenbaum followed Padover, and both delivered uproarious performances.Ingber juxtaposed stand-up bits with songs on his guitar—one of which was a drinking game that bashed non-conformity and every well-known philosopher since Plato.Some of the alcohol was gone by that point, but Bud Light Tall Boys and 40-oz. bottles of malt liquor were liberally slurped...