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Released in 1976, Leary continued to remain in the public eye as a stand-up comic, author and Hollywood party-goer...
Since the commons opened on January 4, more than a half-dozen events have taken place in the semi-enclosed space. While most of the twice-weekly entertainment is musical, last Saturday featured a stand-up comic and this Thursday there will be a poetry reading, with jazz music afterward, according to Monica A. Henderson '99, the student coordinator at Memorial Hall...
WHEN COMEDY CENTRAL was born in 1991, the result of a merger between HBO's Comedy Channel and MTV Network's HA!, it was a cable network in search of an identity. Its mix of anonymous stand-up comics telling jokes about gender wars over toothpaste caps, reruns of old sitcoms like McHale's Navy, and a smattering of new programs (like Sports Monster, an unfunny spoof of sports wrap-up shows) was hardly exciting. Comedy Central should have been hip and edgy--a Seattle to the broadcast networks' Des Moines. Instead it fell Grainbelt flat...
That means Doug Herzog, Comedy Central's new president, will have to stay one step ahead. He's on the lookout for someone to replace Maher as "the face of Comedy Central" and hopes to launch three new series next year. Herzog also wants to rejuvenate that tired staple, stand-up comedy. The channel has attracted big-name comics like Whoopi Goldberg and Gary Shandling for upcoming specials, but Herzog is also looking for a way to showcase new talent that won't be "a guy telling jokes in front of a brick wall at Giggles in Cincinnati...
...week's events include a faculty talent show at Paine Hall on Thursday night. Acts in past years have ranged from stand-up comedy to Beavis and Butthead imitations...