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Rule-Breaking Comedians Who Did Comedy Their Way

There was a time when comedy lived in small, smoky rooms and on crackly vinyl records you played after dinner. Across the ...
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Bob Newhart Holds Up

He basically invented the stand-up special in 1960 and continued to be a source of comic brilliance until his final years. By Jason Zinoman Bob Newhart, who died on Thursday at the age of 94, has been ...
The New York Times

Anatomy of a Comedy Cliché

How did comedians “getting real” become such a common trope in TV and movies? By Jason Zinoman Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A stand-up comic, tired of hiding behind jokes, jolts the ...