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Comedy and tragedy have had an incestuous relationship throughout the history of the arts; often a laugh quickly escalates into affliction or a misfortune is made light by a comic touch. The life of a stand-up comedian hangs between these two entangled polarities. With his video in progress, Kyle Gilman '02, a visual and environmental studies concentrator from Wendell, Mass., explores this tightrope in the life of a local Boston comic as he navigates through the harsh and difficult circuit of the comedy world. When we think of comedians, we usually think of the lucky ones on sitcoms...
...covers Tim in a cinema verit-style documentary, letting Tim make or break himself under the microscope of his audience and the camera. Through Tim and his fellow comics' exploits on the stage and off, Kyle attempts to explore the world of underappreciated (sometimes deservedly, sometimes not) stand-up comedians. "I have gained a whole new respect for comedians," Kyle says. "They get shit on, not many people respect their way of living." During one scene, Kyle shows Tim entertaining a group of intoxicated union members at a party, while one audience member heckles him by yelling "Sheep" and "That...
...high school, he and a friend made a movie about a guy who orders pizzas and then kills the delivery boys. The movie garnered a New England Cable Access Award. After directing the zany Freshman Musical and working on several theater productions, Kyle had an urge to learn about stand-up comedy. Going into this current project, he says, "I've always had a secret desire to be a stand-up comedian, but I don't think now I ever will do it, though I thought this would be some kind of push." Although...
...funny. Very funny, especially when he's got cotton in your mouth. He comes up with these non-sequiturs. Always makes me laugh. Anyway, at some point I entered a stand-up comedy contest and was one of the winners, and I did a comic at NYU. That started to make me think, "Wait a minute, maybe it's worth a try..." So I went to Chicago and joined a comedy group there. Took improv classes. Was found by Franken and Davis and hired by SNL in 1985. Did that show 'til 93. Then I did "Conan," which...
...funny thing about Steve Martin's first work of extended fiction, Shopgirl, is that it's not funny. At least not the laugh-out-loud-and-frighten-the-horses funny of Martin's early stand-up comedy, or of his performance as the man-woman in All of Me, or the humor pieces in his collection Pure Drivel. Shopgirl, which really is about a 28-year-old woman behind the glove counter at the Neiman Marcus department store in Beverly Hills, offers quieter pleasures: a delicate portrait of people inflicting subtle pain on others and themselves, and an appeal...