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...White House theater was not built for stand-up comedy. But two Fridays ago, Laura Bush was definitely, as they say at the Friars Club, "in the house." She was practicing a then secret, now acclaimed comedy routine that she would deliver the next night at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a tribal feast on the Potomac where some 3,000 reporters--and their sources--converge in a hotel ballroom for steak and fish, wine and laughs. Traditionally, the President does the wisecracking. But earlier this year, after surveying the string of press dinners on his calendar, Bush told...
Rock—world-renowned stand-up comedian, movie star, and recent Academy Awards host—treated the college newspaper writers who were invited to the conference call much as he treated his hypothetical checkout lady. He was polite, but sounded as though he was somewhat reluctantly going through the motions of an everyday transaction...
...preparing an American Masters program about you. Why still do stand-up when it's official--you're a master? The alternative is Sunset Blvd. You sit in a darkened room every day, and Erich von Stroheim comes in and asks you what episode of The Bob Newhart Show you want to watch. I'd rather keep making people laugh...
Coulter's speech was part right-wing stand-up routine--she called Senator Edward Kennedy "the human dirigible"--and part bloodcurdling agitprop. "Liberals like to scream and howl about McCarthyism," she concluded. "I say, let's give them some. They've had intellectual terror on the campus for years ... It's time for a new McCarthyism." Curtain...
...part, Jenkins cultivates a sincere and friendly rapport with his audiences. In his stand-up routine, Jenkins jokes that his girlfriend, while breaking up with him, stated, “I resent the fact that you’re not being genuine with me—that you’re treating me like one of your audiences...