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Talking Comedy’s Mafia Ties, Steve Martin, and the Podcast Boom with Stand-Up...
Initially, former comedian Kliph Nesteroff didn’t like being labeled a historian. But with The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy, out now from Grove Atlantic,...
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The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Ricki and the Flash,’ ‘Shaun...
The customary theatrical-to-video release window means we’re seeing late summer stuff on the shelves this week — specifically, two August gems that deserve your home video attention. On top of that,...
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Steve Martin Performed Stand-up for the First Time in 35 Years
After decades out of the stand-up world, comedian Steve Martin returned to the stage Thursday night, opening the second show of Jerry Seinfeld’s residency at the Beacon Theater. Martin has been...
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10 of the Best Highbrow Comedies on Film
On this day back in 1978, Annie Hall beat out Star Wars for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, proving that audiences still had a taste for highbrow jokes over lightsabers. The clever, and often...
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How Scorsese’s ‘King of Comedy’ Influenced a Generation of Film, Television,...
Roger Ebert’s original review of The King of Comedy is a useful tool for understanding exactly how indifferently Martin Scorsese’s comedy/drama was received upon its release – coming as it does from...
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25 Clever Steve Martin Quotes on Longing, the Art World, and Creating Characters
Happy birthday to comedian, writer, and banjo god Steve Martin. The Pennies from Heaven and Man with Two Brains actor — not literally, though his cleverness would suggest otherwise — has impeccable...
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‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,’ or ‘How Shiny New Toys Can Ruin Your Movie’
Maybe you have to have been a struggling, low-budget filmmaker in the mid-to-late 1990s to understand the near-mythic qualities of 24 frame-per-second (aka 24 fps) video. Put as briefly as possible:...
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The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with Kristen Wiig
Former SNLer and forever funny lady Kristen Wiig hosted the series last evening. She was the perfect personality to help America move forward in a President-elect Donald Trump world, bringing several...
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The 9 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Dean,’ ‘Ronin,’ ‘Lion King’
It’s another hefty week for home viewers, with a whole slew of great old(er) movies hitting Blu-ray, plus a lovely new rom-com on DVD and a terrific bio-doc streaming (and airing) on Showtime. Let’s...
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The Best and Worst of Last Night’s ‘SNL’ with James Franco
James Franco’s new film The Disaster Artist chronicles the making of Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult film The Room. While we’d rather be watching The Deuce, and not necessarily for Franco’s contributions, the...
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