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Weekly Week Editor Eugene Mirman also performs stand-up comedy each Thursday at the Green Street Grill in Central Square, Small says...
...ROKER President tells weathermen they're not just airheads, plus they get White House lawn stand...
Vibe, named after the magazine founded by Quincy Jones, one of the show's producers, stars stand-up comedian Chris Spencer; Keenen is fronted by the creator of the sketch-comedy show In Living Color. Both hosts are black; both sit on an easy chair with a coffee table in front of them when they interview guests. Meanwhile, David Letterman has a desk. Jay Leno has a desk. Conan O'Brien has a desk. All three are white. With its monologue, its band, its celebrity entrances, the late-night show is highly ritualized, so this variation in iconography is surely...
...unfortunately, never break out of their papier-mache molds. One wishes that Mohr, a former stand-up comedian who played Tom Cruise's slick-talking, backstabbing nemesis in "Jerry Maguire," could have lent a little more comic verve to his appealing but bland Mr. Nice Guy. Bacon merely drifts in and out as the perverse Mr. Wrong in one of his most forgettable roles. If anything, the movie could have used more of the potential spice of the two supporting females: there isn't nearly enough of Illeana Douglas or Olympia Dukakis as Kate's anxious, marriage-obsessed mother...
Though in common they have youth, a propensity for bleak subject matter and an ability to write beautifully about it, the three playwrights are very different. Marber, a Londoner who got his start on the comedy circuit performing stand-up and working with the popular television comedian Steve Coogan, crafts intricately layered, well-observed, heartfelt plays in a realistic vein about contemporary relationships. McDonagh is more a folkwriter in the tradition of J.M. Synge. His macabre, wildly funny and over-the-top tragicomedies are slightly absurdist, set in remote parts of rural Ireland and peopled with comic grotesques--or literal...