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Documentary reveals 75-year-old Robert Klein to still be edgy and …
Houston Chronicle The oddest thing about Marshall Fine's documentary "Robert Klein Still Can't Stop His Leg" is how guys like Jerry Seinfeld, Eric Bogosian, Richard Lewis, Billy … New film gives Robert Klein his due as a comedy icon |
Documentary reveals 75-year-old Robert Klein to still be edgy and funny – Houston Chronicle
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Documentary reveals 75-year-old Robert Klein to still be edgy and funny
Houston Chronicle For his part, Klein cites two comedy gods, Lenny Bruce and Jonathan Winters, as influences. He got Bruce's purpose, he says, "to dignify and make more important standup comedy. Talking about something, not just a joke." That said, one of his closest … |
Jimmy Carr Invites Miami Comedy Fans to Heckle Him Onstage – Miami New Times
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Jimmy Carr Invites Miami Comedy Fans to Heckle Him Onstage
Miami New Times Lenny Bruce said it first. The audience knows funny better than any comedian. All you got to do as a comic is you gotta get up in front of a crowd and test the stuff. Fifty people in a bar, in a tiny comedy room, will tell you what the reaction will be … |
‘Dumb & Dumber’ Co-Director Talks Thin-Skinned Audiences and the Modern Comedy Scene – /FILM
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'Dumb & Dumber' Co-Director Talks Thin-Skinned Audiences and the Modern Comedy Scene
/FILM These aren't the days of Lenny Bruce, when you could try a bunch of different things and break rules. Now, people are sensitive. But I think it'll change. It's a cyclical thing. Someone will come along who's doing it differently, a modern-day Joan … |
Anti-Russia rhetoric in US is ‘replication of McCarthyism’ – RT
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Anti-Russia rhetoric in US is 'replication of McCarthyism'
RT … “[a]n intellectual known for his irreverent political and social humor” (Newsweek), “[who] wears the mantle of Lenny Bruce, with Lenny's own tropisms: The Oblique, The Irreverent, The Tangential, The Concupiscent, The Polymorphous Perverse, The … |
‘Gilmore Girls’ Creator Has Made the Best New Amazon Prime Pilot – Yahoo TV (blog)
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'Gilmore Girls' Creator Has Made the Best New Amazon Prime Pilot
Yahoo TV (blog) There are five new shows now screening on Amazon Prime. It's what the streaming service calls its “pilot season”: You watch and vote, and perhaps your pick … Bingeworthy: 'Gilmore Girls' creators pitch 'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' to … |
‘Gilmore Girls’ Creator Makes A Very Jewy TV Pilot – Forward
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'Gilmore Girls' Creator Makes A Very Jewy TV Pilot
Forward Sherman-Palladino's father was Jewish gag writer Don Sherman, and his better known contemporaries, including Lenny Bruce, get shout outs in the pilot. The show is chockablock with Jewish content. Among the cast are Tony Shalhoub (“Monk”), who plays … Stream It or Skip It: 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Is Amy Sherman … Pilot · The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel · TV Review Amy Sherman … |
Pilot · The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel · TV Review Amy Sherman … – A.V. Club
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Pilot · The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel · TV Review Amy Sherman …
A.V. Club From the minute it starts, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is pure Amy Sherman-Palladino. Who else has such an affinity for self-possessed brunette women, the kind … Stream It or Skip It: 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' Is Amy Sherman … 'Gilmore Girls' Creator Makes A Very Jewy TV Pilot Is The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel a Worthy Gilmore Girls Successor? |
Gilmore Girls Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino Explains her … – Vanity Fair
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Gilmore Girls Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino Explains her …
Vanity Fair Joan Rivers may be gone, but her spirit lives on in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel—a remarkable pilot that premieres on Amazon Friday. The show charts the … |
Gilmore Girls Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino Explains her Marvelous New TV Series – Vanity Fair
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Gilmore Girls Creator Amy Sherman-Palladino Explains her Marvelous New TV Series
Vanity Fair Amy Sherman-Palladino: Weirdly, my dad was a stand-up comic. So I grew up with a bunch of Jews sitting around trying to make each other laugh. And I knew Lenny Bruce's mother when I was a kid, because she was sort of the godmother to all the comics. |
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