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DIED. DON ADAMS, 82, former stand-up comic who achieved pop culture fame and three Emmys as the bumbling yet vain secret agent Maxwell Smart ("Sorry about that, Chief") on TV's 1960s spy spoof Get Smart; in Los Angeles. Unlike James Bond, Adams' unsuave Agent 86 ate classified messages before remembering to read them, dialed calls on a phone hidden in a pair of high-tech but often malfunctioning shoes, and insisted that his partner, 99 (Barbara Feldon), let him handle the delicate jobs?which he promptly botched. Adams' later roles included the voice of Inspector Gadget...
...freaky tricks, like cueing up "The Sporting Life" by the Decemberists on both iPods, and setting them half a beat apart. The tom-toms thundered after each other in synch, and the vocals sounded like they had a cool delay (or echo) effect. At another point, I played a stand-up routine by the late great Mitch Hedberg paired with random music...
...Cosby question--he's heard it before. Chris Rock knows his history well enough to know the parallel: in 1984 a black comic turned his stand-up act into a fresh-voiced family comedy that revived the sitcom genre when, like now, pundits were reading it the last rites. But suggest that UPN's Everybody Hates Chris, which Rock created and narrates, could be today's Great Black Hope, and the comic waxes unphilosophical. "If it's good, it'll work. If not, it won't work." Shrug. Silence. Move...
...tune. DANE COOK'S Retaliation is the highest-charting comedy album (No. 4 on Billboard) since Steve Martin's A Wild and Crazy Guy in 1979. Though his success surprised most of the off-campus public, "I kind of felt the rumblings of this happening," says the Boston stand-up star, whose college fans throw listening parties for his albums. Next Cook plays "in-your-face, misogynistic, rude cook Floyd" in the feature-film comedy Waiting. Sounds like a guy whose wait is over...
...spend enormous amounts of money to make sure we have the business market, with our limousines, our stand-up bars, our manicures. Because we've captured the business market, that's enabled us to keep fares at the back of the plane down...