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Comedians get serious in fundraising for autism - USA Today

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Comedians get serious in fundraising for autism
USA Today - Apr 13, 2008
By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY NEW YORK — Superstar comedians joined forces Sunday night for a cause that was anything but funny. Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, …

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Funny folk's exit is no laughing matter - The Press

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Funny folk's exit is no laughing matter
The Press, New Zealand - 1 hour ago
Group member Rikki Cosgrove said the fact there were few comedy nights in Christchurch and other South Island cities meant comedians would travel elsewhere. …

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A Professor With a Ph.D. in Nonsense - New York Times

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A Professor With a Ph.D. in Nonsense
New York Times, United States - 1 hour ago
… Playboy Club, elegantly carrying his tattered tailcoat on a hanger in a clear plastic dry-cleaning bag. “He’s one of the great trailblazers in comedy,” …

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Improv festival sets the tone for the reinvention of comedy - Daily Trojan Online

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Improv festival sets the tone for the reinvention of comedy
Daily Trojan Online, CA - 1 hour ago
Groups from all over the country will arrive to refine their improvisational comedy, or improv, skills, alongside professionals and members of the on-campus …

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Comedy Central - Nascar

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Comedy Central
Nascar - 2 hours ago
A Night of Too Many Stars is on Comedy Central and it is hillarious! Not for the kids so much though …Tina Faye just had the President of White Castle …

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'Loser' set to be a comedy festival champion (+video) - New Zealand Herald

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'Loser' set to be a comedy festival champion (+video)
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - 4 hours ago
The high school reunion has long been good fodder for books and movies and Thomas Sainsbury's Loser, at the NZ International Comedy Festival from Wednesday, …

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CLIMATE CHANGE, JAZZ AND COMEDY ON THE CARDS FOR DULWICH FESTIVAL - Southwark News

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Southwark News
CLIMATE CHANGE, JAZZ AND COMEDY ON THE CARDS FOR DULWICH FESTIVAL
Southwark News, UK - 5 hours ago
By Alex Aldridge HUMAN-RIGHTS activist Peter Tatchell will be speaking at this year's Dulwich Festival, organisers have revealed. Tatchell, who is perhaps …

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MGM acquires Wexler's comedy spec script - Box Office Prophets

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MGM acquires Wexler's comedy spec script
Box Office Prophets - 5 hours ago
MGM's picked up its first comedy spec under new chairman Mary Parent: Bobism, written by Ben Wexler (CBS's Still Standing). The story is about a shy college …
SPEC SCRIPTS 'BOBISM' AND 'BATTLE: LOS ANGELES' SELL TO HOLLYWOOD iFMagazine
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Friedman mines new lode of ‘Old Jewish Comedians’ - Fort Worth Business Press

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Friedman mines new lode of ‘Old Jewish Comedians’
Fort Worth Business Press, TX - 6 hours ago
Drew found an ideal groove a couple of years ago with a handsome book called Old Jewish Comedians: A Visual Encyclopedia, its bright-eyed cover painting of …

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Survivor from a happier time - Telegraph.co.uk

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Telegraph.co.uk
Survivor from a happier time
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - Apr 13, 2008
A throwback to a more innocent age of entertainment when comedians radiated Falstaffian good cheer and didn't swear (or at least nowhere near an audience), …

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