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Celebrities don't often make the most successful talk-show hosts. JUST ASK Sharon Osbourne or Roseanne. But Ellen DeGeneres, whose daytime syndicated show debuted last fall, has been a rare hit with both critics and audiences. Jeffrey Ressner talked with the TV star and stand-up comedian, who publicly revealed that she was gay in a TIME cover story seven years...
...entertainment industry doesn't give the public enough credit for getting things, and so they keep lowering the bar instead of raising it. There seem to be a lot of jokes at people's expense, whether it's a magazine making fun of someone's clothes or a stand-up comic pointing out something a person did wrong. We don't even notice it anymore. It's become common to tear somebody down. I don't find it funny...
...with his dreamy co-worker Julia. You couldn't ask for a more entertaining drinking buddy--watch out for a memorable strip-club meltdown scene--but there's a deep, dark subway of despair that rumbles underneath his riffs, and that's what makes Love Monkey more than a stand-up routine. Hell may have no fury like that of a woman scorned, but neither is there any torment quite like that of an ardent suitor rebuffed--the woe of the unsuccessful wooer--and Love Monkey nails...
...still ill at ease in press conferences, but he has a lighter side. Quarterback Tom Brady, another no-namer promoted to Super Bowl glory when the Pats took it all in 2002, insists his coach is "very witty, very intelligent." Asked for a few gems of Belichick stand-up, Brady demurs: "We're talking about a football coach here. Not much of that stuff is going to be printable...
PREGNANT MALES Jokes about who wears the pants in the family are a corny stand-up staple. Tell that to the sea horse. It is the male who becomes pregnant, blows up like a balloon and delivers the young. The male Darwin frog swallows fertilized eggs and broods the young in his mouth. Ditto for the Japanese cardinal fish. In fact, males of many species--fish and fowl--are in charge of child care...