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DIED. VAUGHN MEADER, 68, who satirized President John F. Kennedy in the hit 1962 album First Family; of emphysema; in Auburn, Maine. Meader was a stand-up comedian whose Kennedy satire, making fun of his "vigah" in an uncannily similar New England accent, caught on with a Kennedy-hungry public and resulted in an album that quickly sold 7.5 million copies and won a Grammy for Album of the Year. Even the President thought it was funny; he bought 100 copies for Christmas gifts. When Kennedy was assassinated the following year, however, Meader's career died with him. After struggling...
...DIED. VAUGHN MEADER, 68, who satirized President John F. Kennedy in the best-selling album First Family; of emphysema; in Auburn, Maine. Meader was a stand-up comedian whose Kennedy satire, making fun of his ?vigah? in an uncannily similar New England accent, caught on with a Kennedy-hungry American public and resulted in an album that quickly sold 7.5 million copies and won a 1962 Grammy for album of the year. Even the President thought it was funny; he bought 100 copies for Christmas gifts. When Kennedy was assassinated the following year, Meader?s career died with...
Former Saturday Night Live star Jim Breuer cracked jokes before hundreds of students last night in Sanders Theatre in the first stand-up comedy show performed there in a decade...
...VIBE: With the bile of her stand-up but not the laughs, the site has earnest musings ("I am a painfully shy person") and screeds instead of jokes. Just for Cho diehards. RATING...
DIED. RODNEY DANGERFIELD, 82, stand-up comic whose old-fashioned style of one-liners thrived in an era of hip young satirists; of complications following heart surgery; in Los Angeles. After struggling as a Catskills comic, using the stage name Jack Roy, he left the business for 12 years and sold aluminum siding. But he made a comeback in his 40s, with a new name (suggested by a club owner) and a new catchphrase, "I don't get no respect." A zealous joke writer--he would jot them down on the cardboard from his laundered shirts--he got his first...