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...stand-up comedy my way of letting go of the rigors of producing a newspaper column on deadline? Am I a raging egomaniac hooked on the adrenaline rush of immediate public approval? I prefer more subtle explanations. How gratifying to discover and nurture a new talent in midlife. I relish the I'd-be-scared-to-do-that praise from weekend rock climbers and hang gliders who view me as a fellow daredevil. But, mostly, it's as fun to get laughs now as it was when I was cracking wise from the back of the room in fifth grade...
Franken performed stand-up comedy in high school but says he came to Harvard with other plans...
Franken, an English concentrator, worked New York's stand-up circuit while at Harvard and after graduation until...
...undergraduate, Franken says he was involved in Dunster House Theater and also ran a Coffee House at Currier House, which included stand-up comedy and one-act plays...
...Volkswagen van. He describes the van part, at least, as being not all that bad, and discounts the easy conceit that there's an A-to-B line between childhood scars and his comedy, or anyone else's. Then again, he once did a bit in his stand-up routine that went like this: "What would you do if you found out your parents went to hell? 'Oh, my God--they taught me everything I know...