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DIED. CLIFF GORMAN, 65, explosive television, screen and stage actor who won a Tony for his bitterly funny portrayal of the stand-up comic Lenny Bruce in Broadway's Lenny (1971); of leukemia; in New York City. He first gained fame for his flamboyantly gay performance in the 1968 play The Boys in the Band...
...tour, we not only learned of these exciting and positively Kramerican ventures, but of the story behind Seinfeld, illuminated by a real participant. The tour began at the Pulse theater where Kramer entertained with his own stand-up and with tales from Seinfeld-past. He told about how Larry David, the co-creater and writer, ended up working with Jerry and shaping the show’s dark humor. He discussed how the real Kramer actually wanted to construct levels in his apartment (“it’ll be like Ancient Egypt”) and how Larry really...
...home and office, the single woman married to her career whose eggs you can all but hear expiring one by one. The most intriguing character is star Tim Matheson's big-money anchor, because he is only half a cliche--he is a pompous prima donna but also a stand-up journalist...
...from the congressional campaign to help an organization trying to legalize marijuana in the state. With this group, I led a team to rural northern Nevada so we could gather enough signatures for the initiative to appear on the ballot. My crack team of volunteers consisted of a failed stand-up comic, an ex-felon who spent the 1990s in California State Penitentiary (a reformed pimp and carjacker), and his girlfriend. While this alone could have provided the plot for a bad movie, to my amusement (and hassle), there was much more in store...
...senior year, Franken and his future SNL co-writer Tom Davis—who had performed in Minneapolis comedy clubs with Franken during high school—traveled to New York almost every weekend to do stand-up at various comedy clubs...