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COMEDY: Is Stand-Up The Reality TV Of Broadway?

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Funny, Reality Television, Billy Crystal, Hal Holbrook, Entertainment, Books, American Theater Wing, Tony Awards, Broadway, Lenny Bruce, Long Story Short, Stephen Sondheim, Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld, Stand-Up Comedy, Mario Cantone, Comedy at the Edge, Richard Zoglin, Colin Quinn, Duran Duran, Playbill, Lily Tomlin, Fox, Comedy, Cops, Entertainment News
James Sims

Passing off stand-up comedy as a Broadway show, intentionally or not, does nothing but confuse the terminology of theatrical standards, whatever those might be.

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Top 5 Most Surprising Comedians to Perform at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Jokes, Darrell Hammond, Humor, George W. Bush, Late Night Jokes, Cedric the Entertainer, President Obama, White House Correspondents Dinner, Barack Obama, Stephen Colbert, Politics, Laura Bush, Jay Leno, Sinbad, Ray Romano, Comedy, Time, Npr, Maureen Dowd, Drew Carey, New York Times, Richard Zoglin, Washington Post, Entertainment News
Danny Groner

While no comedians before have matched the level of opposition and intrigue that Colbert and Leno generated more recently, this list of prior entertainers at the press dinner might amaze you.

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Robin Williams Thief? Bitter Comedian Rivalries Bared In New Book

NY Post | Page Six | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Richard Belzer, Richard Zoglin, Robin Williams, Bill Maher, Comedy at the Edge, Entertainment News

In the upcoming book "Comedy at the Edge," which chronicles the rise of stand-up in the 1970s, David Brenner tells author Richard Zoglin he once thre...

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