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...Working blue" is what stand-up comedians call using jokes based on sex. Robert Schimmel, however, doesn't just work blue, he lives blue. The diminutive Schimmel's third comedy album, Unprotected, is a recording of his HBO special, and continues the sex-based theme of his previous two albums. But even if you've seen the special or seen Schimmel do his routine on the Conan O'Brien show, the hysterical routine is in no way diminished by repetition...
...videos don't show; explaining sex to the daughter. So despite his swagger, Schimmel comes across as a real person, oddly tender to his wife, and it's his emotional closeness that makes Unprotected cut so close to the (funny) bone. A hilarious release from a star of the stand-up circuit. A- --DARYL...
...portrait you gave us of republican presidential candidate John McCain is of a man fully alive [CAMPAIGN 2000, Dec. 13]. His heroic military past is astonishing. McCain is at times a statesman and crusader and at others a family man, raconteur or stand-up comic. His mixture of humanity, honor and humor is unique to the present political scene. He wins you over with his personality and his message. OLIVER HARPER Phoenix, Ariz...
...they remember him at all, most people think of Kaufman as the bashful foreign mechanic on the sitcom Taxi whose salutation "Tenk you veddy much" became a national catchphrase. But a small cult of hard-core fans reveres Kaufman as a performance artist who upended stand-up comedy to explore his inner child. He wrestled women for laughs, created a thuggish alter ego named Tony Clifton and never let on where the prankster stopped and the real person began. When he died of cancer in 1984, at 35, even close friends suspected a hoax...
Remember in the movie Aliens when Hudson asked, "Is this gonna be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?" Well, the 21st century is going to be one hell of a bug hunt. There's no doubt that eerie new infectious diseases will appear, and the struggles against some of them will make the fight against the AIDS virus look like the opening battle of a war. Of course, by then there will probably be a vaccine for AIDS, and the shot will cost a few dollars or be given for free...