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...into FM’s gossip column for doing so. And legend has already embraced Paul and Steve’s unasked-for encore after Eliot won the Straus cup; after the festive ceremony and luncheon, they seized the microphones and sat back in lawn chairs. Their impromptu stand-up routine and reflections on IM glory echoed through the courtyard long after most residents were back to cramming for finals...
DIED. Myron Cohen, 83, stand-up comic who was a star on the Las Vegas, Atlantic City and Catskill Borscht Belt circuit for 40 years, and a favorite of TV audiences on the old Ed Sullivan hour and the Tonight show; after a heart attack; in Nyack, N.Y. A onetime salesman in New York City's garment district, Cohen specialized in dialect stories and ethnic jokes that were sometimes blue, usually hilarious, but always gentle...
...What a crazy week in Hollywood--Michael Jackson has stopped sleeping with children in his bed, and Tom Cruise has started." --MICHAEL SOMERVILLE, stand-up comedian
...Researchers are linking Viagra to blindness. So now, aging baby boomers are ending their adulthood asking the same question they did when they began it: 'Can I do it just till I need glasses?'" --WILL DURST, stand-up comic and TV and radio commentator
While doing stand-up in the early 1980s, Borowitz was discovered and hired by a CBS talent scout. He began work for small time TV shows such as Square Pegs, Easy Street, and The Facts of Life, and helped produce his own show called Dreamers...