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Professor Seinfeld has put together a syllabus for the course he's always wanted to teach, Stand-Up 101. His working definition: "Stand-up is a guy onstage talking about his life." We sit at a monitor and unspool his Mount Rushmore of comedy, starting with the man he considers the father of modern stand-up, Lenny Bruce...
...audience. Seinfeld chuckles as Klein talks about sliding down the couch on the Tonight Show. Seinfeld recalls that when he first saw Klein perform, "I said to myself, 'I could do that.' The way he looked at the world was funny. He had a point of view. That's stand-up. And at the time, I didn't even know how to get a tuxedo...
...movies like Men in Black II and has signed a deal with Fox for a possible sitcom, so it's not really clear why a 31-year-old man with a wife and a daughter would want to do this to himself one last time. "A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart," said Knoxville in his Hollywood film-production office as he was shooting the last few scenes of the movie. "They give it up, and they...
DIED. BUDDY LESTER, 86, character actor and stand-up comedian who often worked as Frank Sinatra's opening act in Las Vegas and appeared with the Rat Pack in the films Ocean's Eleven (1960) and Sergeants 3 (1962); in Los Angeles. His first acting role was as himself--in the 1959 movie The Gene Krupa Story--and he later made guest appearances in such TV series as Barney Miller and Starsky and Hutch...
...swift rise and fall of Felicia Holden as a project manager matched that of her employer, a New York City Internet-design and architecture company. When the call came last summer, "it was devastating," she says. Still, the experience proved invaluable--mainly as material for her first stand-up comedy act. Soon the slender thirtysomething was pursuing a lifelong ambition, cracking jokes in her Georgia twang before notoriously unforgiving audiences at comedy clubs around the city. "I felt at that point that I had nothing to lose...