Thursday, April 13, 2017
Everything about a phone interview with Jay Leno is easy. He calls 15 minutes earlier than the scheduled time. He happily answers every question, even the tough ones about NBC and Conan O'Br…
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At 4 years old, Heather Sweet of tiny West Branch, Mich., did not see herself as a burlesque dancer who would take off her clothes and bathe in a giant martini glass onstage. If anything, li…
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The thing Hannibal Buress mainly remembers about visiting New Orleans is the parades. A friend told him that for $300, "you can have your own parade on a day's notice." So Buress, 33, marche…
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The "Mary Worthless" sketch, in which Carol Burnett wears an old-lady wig and lampoons the Sunday funnies' most annoying busybody, was not as terrible as the sketch-comedy heroine recalls. I…
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The night of the Academy Awards, Wanda Sykes boarded an 8 p.m. flight from New York to Los Angeles. Just before the doors closed, she fired up Twitter to inquire about streaming the broadcas…
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The day after Ben Carson drops out of the presidential race, leaving a trail of weird childhood knife-fight stories, fake Josef Stalin quotes and fumbling entrances to debate stages, Trevor …
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The Black and Brown Comedy Get Down, starring George Lopez, Eddie Griffin, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley and Mike Epps, is dead. Long live the Comedy Get Down. "It wasn't the blacks a…
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The terrible events in Paris this month may suggest social satirists who roast religious figures must fear for their lives. But Lewis Black, the veteran stand-up comedian who once declared G…
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After all the Jingle Balls, Smooth Jazz Christmases and Holiday Singalongs have packed up their Santa hats, after the Mannheim Steamrollers and Andrea Bocellis have vacated the city, after t…
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Sandra Bernhard makes a correction. She did not cry the first time she tried stand-up comedy at The Improv club in Los Angeles in the late '70s. "I cried once I was doing it for a few months…
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Comedy legend offers mix of laughs, gravitas
BY STEVE KNOPPER ... Lily Tomlin is talking about her middle finger. In 2003 she told a reporter that on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In," the TV …
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