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DIED. Jan Murray, 89, stand-up comedian and actor who went from performing variety-show routines at resorts in New York's Catskill Mountains to hosting popular 1950s TV game shows, including Blind Date, Dollar a Second and Treasure Hunt, on which winning contestants got to pick a treasure chest that could contain anything from a big-money check to cabbage; in Beverly Hills, Calif. A native New Yorker who came up in Borscht Belt comedy with Sid Caesar and Buddy Hackett, Murray turned to acting in the 1960s, appearing in films like Thunder Alley and TV shows that included...
...past day or so, perhaps realizing they had lost the battle to argue Colbert's stand-up into something that will be universally acknowledged as funny, the liberal commentariat has shifted tactics. Salon?s Joan Walsh, for instance, pretended to grant that humor was subjective: "Let's even give Colbert's critics that point. Clearly he didn't entertain most of the folks at the dinner Saturday night." But whose fault is that? Why, those who were not entertained, of course. The tepid response "tells us more about the audience than it does about Colbert." Not laughing, it turns...
...origins in 1978’s landmark Supreme Court case FCC v. Pacifica Foundation. A listener to Pacifica’s New York City station filed a complaint after George Carlin’s infamous “Filthy Words” bit—in which the legendary stand-up comic and counter-culture icon gleefully lists and graphically annotates the anatomical, excretory, and reproductive colloquialisms deemed unfit for broadcast media...
...one.Three undergraduates walk into a bar—one from Emerson College, one from Boston University (BU), and one from Harvard. More specifically, they walk into The Comedy Studio on the third floor of the Hong Kong restaurant, where a handful of young comics are testing out their raw stand-up routines.The students from Emerson and BU both do their schtick, but the Harvard kid merely listens politely. After an enjoyable evening of comedy, the three emerge on to Mass Ave. and go their separate ways. Get it? Get it? Okay, that bombed. But it wasn’t meant...
...friend who recently spent the weekend with Rumsfeld and his wife predicted Rumsfeld would stay for the duration: "They will have to pry him from his stand-up desk with a crowbar." In Cairo last week, Rumsfeld tried to take it all in stride. "If every time two or three people disagreed, we changed the Secretary of Defense of the United States, it would be like a merry-go-round." But Rumsfeld may again be underestimating the strength of an insurgency--this one in his own backyard. Other retired officers are expected to make their views known soon. Which means...