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...Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) made the show an annual event with a different cause each year, according to HCC Promotion Chair Lauren P.S. Epstein ’07. The comedians scheduled to appear range from an Emmy Award-winning writer for the Daily Show with Jon Stewart to a stand-up regular on Comedy Central. “The idea is that we can do two amazing things at once,” Epstein said. “We can provide a night of really amazing comedy for Harvard students and we can make a serious effort to raise both...
...college I focused on studying…I wasn’t very good at it so it took me awhile to get the hang of how college worked.” After graduation and a brief stint singing in Budapest, Mattison—who began as a stand-up bass player—found himself working a variety of jobs, including a reporting gig in Saint Paul followed by a day job in New York. Fortuitously, producer John Snyder, who would produce Scrapomatic’s first record in 2002, heard and admired the band and recommended Mattison...
...This is a disappointment on two counts. For one thing, I?m not at all certain that Williams is a performer whose highest gifts need to be doled out in small doses. Back when he was doing stand-up in solo TV appearances I never found him tiresome. Those appearances often had the quality of a high wire act; they fascinated us precisely because of his tireless talent to entertain, to keep going beyond the point at which most comedians wear out their welcome. Or simply fall to earth. In those days you felt a need to answer his bravery...
...Artist looks very much like Huyghe, right down to his fashionable beard stubble and white tennis shoes. Despite winning serious recognition (a special award at the Venice Biennale in 2001, the Hugo Boss Prize in 2002), Huyghe's work has a distinct playfulness. Indeed, the Tate show featured some stand-up comedy performances. For One Year Celebration, Huyghe invited several artists and writers to invent new holidays, and the resulting posters proclaim such whimsical additions to the calendar as Celebrate the Shoelace day (March 21) and &the Creation of the Ampersand day (July 6). Yet discussing his work...
...sick of men who can't satisfy her. Also, NASA and racist dolphins. But Sykes, a former writer for Chris Rock (whom she sounds a bit like) and the star of two short-lived TV shows, has more than enough energy and tart comic logic for this stand-up soire. She doesn't just rail at the White House's fumbling of military and financial issues; she's got helpful hints, like putting working moms in charge of the defense budget ("There's a sale on bombs at Target"). Of the newer comics with DVDs, Sykes is the finest...