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...gala, Jay told Mavis, "Guess who's going to be on the show tonight? You are." Her first ("and last," she adds) appearance gave the event the final push it needed. Lionel Richie opened. Lily Tomlin joked. Marlo Thomas introduced. Sidney Poitier spoke. All the Judds came. Jay's stand-up was funny but surprisingly emotional when he came to Mavis. In a roomful of women, he said, it was embarrassing that "the only one crying...
This show is sure to be two snaps, a twist and a kiss. David Alan Grier of In Living Color's Men on Film fame struts his stand-up at the Comedy Connection. And we guarantee he's nicer than Al Franken. Comedy Connection, Faneuil Hall. 248-9700. 8 p.m., 10:15 p.m. $21. Also Saturday...
...have any advice for Harvard students who may really want to go into a medium like stand-up comedy that is a path less taken...
...what you're going to do when you're leaving. You have to plan; I guess that's what they say. My parents were always like, "We don't care what you do, as long as it makes you money." If somebody is like secretly interested in this--in stand-up, or in any art--I think everybody has to explore their alternative side. I had a day job, and then I did this at night...
...have a passion, if you have a curiousity, it's not going to stop bothering you until go for it once. When I first started doing stand-up, I thought, "Okay, everybody in this room is going to be dead in a 100 years, and it's just ten minutes of my life, so why not?" So my advice would be to try...I travel so much, and I see thousand of people, and I realize not how meaningless I am, but that anything I decide to do is just for me. I want my friends and family to love...