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...Picture this momentous turning point of the French Revolution, punctuated by "possibly the greatest anticlimax in all history ... a decrepit old boy saying ... 'Did you know I came, I saw and I conquered?'" Ba-da-bum. O.K., it might not generate the laughs author Mark Steel gets in his stand-up routine, but that's not what he's trying to do in his new book, Vive La Revolution: A Stand-Up History of the French Revolution. Rather than regale readers with jokes, Steel aims to present the history of a serious subject leavened with irreverent observations and quirky tidbits...
...would think the ball gown and flowing beard might have raised concern, but stand-up comic AARON BARSCHAK somehow sneaked into Windsor Castle and interrupted Prince William's 21st birthday party. After singing a satirical song and, he says, kissing Wills on both cheeks, Barschak was arrested. The "comedy terrorist" was apparently trying to promote his upcoming play at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Osama Likes...
...fire appeared to originate in the exhaust flue of the stand-up broiler unit as a result of excessive grease build-up,” Higgins said. “The fire extended out of the duct work at the chimney connection and into the wood framing members in the basement, and into the walls...
...whim, Ferrell signed up for classes in acting and stand-up comedy from the Groundlings, a renowned Los Angeles improv troupe...
Teen actors, like baby Tiger Woodses and Michelle Kwans, have been doing what they're good at since early kidhood. Muniz was a trouper at 8, as Tiny Tim in a Christmas Carol in Raleigh, N.C. Bynes was discovered at 10 at a kids' stand-up workshop in Los Angeles. Duff loved playacting in her Houston home: "When I was a kid, I would turn the TV off and act out the scenes myself." At 7, she turned...