Critical Essay by Peter Ansorge
The six young apprentice comics who attend the evening classes organised by one-time master comedian, Eddie Waters [in Comedians], are under no illusions about the sta...
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Critical Essay by Harold Clurman
Trevor Griffiths's Comedians … is a distinctly worthwhile play, but there are some difficulties in the way of its full appreciation. The first arises fr...
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Critical Essay by Jack Richardson
Starting from a premise that [Comedians] is novel and rich with antic possibility, the play manages to scuttle itself with perfunctory, self-righteous anger. Set in ...
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In 2002, the then struggling Dane Cook spent his last $25,000 on his Web site http://www.DaneCook.com, the popularity of which soon fueled his meteoric rise. Since Cook braved the path to the Web f...
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Comedian Laureano Marquez has poked fun at politicians for decades without getting into trouble with the law, so he didn't think twice about writing a tongue-in-cheek newspaper editorial based on a...
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With pressure mounting on the Chicago Cubs as they struggle to clinch the NL Central, manager Lou Piniella found someone to ease the tension: comedian Bill Murray.The Cubs' No. 1 fan hung out with ...
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When Mark Malkoff thought about where he could stay while his New York City apartment was being fumigated for cockroaches, he quickly ruled out friends' places (too small) and hotels (too expensive...
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At a recent Q&A following an advance screening of the riotous comedy "Superbad," a woman in the audience asked the film's producer Judd Apatow if he makes "romantic comedies for men.""That soun...
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Critical Essay by Peter Ansorge
Standup comedians set up mike online
