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During his spring break in Florida, Ilagan was contacted by Eric Engel, the events coordinator at Sanders Theatre. Engel had seen tapes of stand-up comedy performed by Ilagan for Harvard-Radcliffe Television's show "The Common Room," of which Ilagan is the head writer and co-producer...
...realized only recently from the depths of the balcony in Sanders that teaching a lecture course is quite a different task for leading a seminar or section. Professors, while not exactly stand-up comedians (live, in Sanders, Jerry Seinfeld on evolution!), do have the difficult job of keeping students entertained. And they must do this without the benefit of discussion among all the participants...
Every day, Americans are belting out more of these ready-made, media-marinated catchphrases, usually of the in-your-face (to use another) variety. Conversations, movies, E-mail, ads, lovers' quarrels, punditry and stand-up comedy can barely be conducted without resort to an annoyingly popular riposte. A random gleaning, from just one Cybill episode on CBS, produced: Hel-lo-oh!; Oh, pulleeze; Get a life; Yadda yadda; Yesss! and Haven't we had enough...
...they do a lot of isolation," Delaney-Smith said. "She has speed and height, so we might put [5-9] junior forward Allison Feaster or [5-10] junior guard Alison Seanor on her. We also might play zone, since they have not shown a lot of stand-up outside shooting...
...beginning of the year, ROSIE O'DONNELL was a stand-up comic best known as a Madonna pal who had been in a few movies and K Mart commercials. Now she has a nice talk show, a nice book deal worth a reputed $3 million, a nice son Parker, and most of the readers of Seventeen thinking she'd be a nice President. Who better for Annie Leibovitz and the folks at Vanity Fair to turn into Glinda the good witch? It's not even her first time in the role. "When I was in the first grade I wanted...