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Following the high-profile Wyclef debacle, the UC Concert Commission changed their entertainment tactics this week by announcing a Sanders Theater stand-up comedy show. The Dec. 10 event will feature seven touring comics, including former SNL-er Kevin Brennan. Incredibly, the comedians will all be performing for free, with proceeds going to victims of the earthquakes in South Asia. This week, The Prying Game asked whether people cared about the show and what comics they’d bring if they’d had the chance...
...love stand-up comedy; I download a lot of it. I’m in two Mitch Hedberg facebook groups and wish [the UC] could bring him here, except he’s dead. And Pablo Francisco—he’s fucking hilarious. When I was breaking up with my boyfriend, I kept using [Francisco’s line], “I love you! C’mon, the band’s gonna make...
...recently. People are less likely to have strong preferences about comics, and I guess it’s good they have a cause for this one; people like to feel like they’re doing something good with their money. Annie Lewis ’07 I think stand-up is awkward—you’re sitting in front of someone and they’re obviously pretending to do something that isn’t natural to them. It’s contrived. They should bring that vagina workshop lady. I’m absolutely sure...
...Saturday Night Live” writer Sarah Silverman, is anything but reverent. The comedienne’s most recent endeavor—after small parts in “The Aristocrats” and “School of Rock”—is a filmed stand-up comedy routine, embellished with musical montages and skits. For those looking for a comedy show with the extra editing capabilities only film can afford, “Jesus is Magic” is a worthy expenditure. No stage can accommodate a ’60s-themed music video?...
...LENNY BRUCE PERFORMANCE FILM Modern stand-up and (in the Jon Stewart mode) sit-down comedy is inconceivable without Bruce, who, before his 1966 death from a heroin overdose, smashed political icons and broke language barriers with equal daring and wit. In this 1965 filming of one of his last sets, Bruce is clearly addled by drugs and depleted by the series of obscenity cases he had to fight. But his mind still worked with a jazzman's improvisatory genius; the hipster fireworks he launched retain their explosive impact. And, man, was he funny...