Tag: George Carlin
Welcome to Elon Musk’s Casino
Recently, comedy clubs have begun doing this thing that seemed, when I first encountered it, both wildly hypocritical and more than a little sad.
I first noticed this new phenomenon at the Comedy Cellar, in Manhattan’s West Village. The Cellar, which was more or less my second home during my early 30s, is a warm and intimate-to-the-point-of-claustrophobia club that I have loved unconditionally. So it was particularly distressing the first time I saw a bouncer distributing padded envelopes and
What Happened to Jon Stewart?
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In March 2021, shortly after Jon Stewart joined Twitter, he tapped the microphone and used his new pulpit to make amends for an infamous act of aggression from his distant past.
“I called Tucker Carlson a dick on National television,” Stewart tweeted. “It’s high time
Bob Saget war die vollendete Vaterfigur von Entertainment
Zwei Jahre vor der beliebten Familien-Sitcom Volles Haus begann auf ABC ausgestrahlt zu werden, Bob Saget erschien auf HBOs Das neunte jährliche Special für junge Comedians. Obwohl seine Rolle als Danny Tanner – dieser liebevolle, engstirnige Vater von drei jungen Mädchen – schließlich seine Schauspielkarriere bestimmen würde, zeigte sein Stand-up-Set eine viel derbere Seite.
In Bezug auf das Leben in Kalifornien sagte Saget mit einem Grinsen: „Ich habe Angst, dass es ein schweres Beben geben wird, und ich werde