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☆ Jay Leno and wife Mavis attend ‘Unfrosted’ red carpet event amidst her dementia diagnosis
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( Lisa Respers France | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Jay Leno and his wife Mavis were full of smiles Tuesday as they supported some of Leno’s comedic colleagues. The couple attended the Los Angeles red carpet premiere for “Unfrosted,” a comedy about the origin of Pop-Tarts, which is the directorial debut of comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Leno, who recently celebrated his 74th birthday, has been granted conservertorship over his wife’s estate as she lives with advanced dementia. “I am so sick of these hard hitting controversial documentaries,” Leno joked to Seinfeld as his wife Mavis Leno laughed. “Can’t somebody just make a comedy anymore?”Seinfeld noted that he and Leno have been friends since 1978 and Leno said he was “very proud” of Seinfeld.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — New Jersey came to the West Coast to kick off Grammy Awards weekend, with native sons Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen teaming up. Bon Jovi hailed Springsteen as “my hero, my friend, my mentor” to a crowd of 2,000 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Instead of performing at the end of the evening as is traditional for the honoree, Bon Jovi got the nearly three-hour show going. Comedian Jim Gaffigan hosted and relentlessly mocked Bon Jovi for his big hair and penchant for wearing short-shorts in the 1980s. “Livin' On a Prayer” became an all-star finale, with Bon Jovi joined onstage by the other performers for a singalong.

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☆ The Tyranny of Hotness
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Lauren Jackson | More About Lauren Jackson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A beautiful person is so often a confrontation. Why would an attractive person toil for a reaction if they don’t have to? Stand-up stages are crawling with beautiful men. Jimmy Fallon smiles boyishly on late night. One annoyed late night writer complained to his peers: “You’ve let the popular kids appropriate the very art form that helped you deal.”

Persons: Jason Zinoman, Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, boyishly, Trevor Noah, Jerry Seinfeld, Bob Newhart, Jim Gaffigan —, “ You’ve, ” Organizations: charmers

☆ Jim Gaffigan’s Quintessentially American Comedy Gets Darker and Better
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Jason Zinoman | More About Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

This set the course for a career of food jokes, with so many of them about how the cheap pleasures of eating fast food overpower our knowledge that it’s bad for us. His new special starts with a moody nighttime landscape that pans back to reveal itself as being inside a picture frame. What he doesn’t do is organize them into a thematic, coherent hour, as if he’s making a grand statement. Gaffigan’s old-school act is allergic to anything that might seem pretentious, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t challenge himself. His new work reveals his move into more storytelling, elaborate act-outs and jokes built on deceptions (“My parents aren’t vaccinated.

Persons: Gaffigan, Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin, “, Jesus, They’ve, He’s, Trump, ” Organizations: Trump

☆ Five Stand-Up Specials for the Long Holiday Weekend
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Lewis Black, ‘Tragically, I Need You’(YouTube)If a stand-up can tap into or channel the fury of an audience, he can light up a room. Lewis Black’s great gift is that behind that dyspeptic front, you could detect a thoughtful, introspective side, a little damaged perhaps. He shows us more of that vulnerable side here, in part because the isolation of the pandemic put him in a reflective mood. Along with swinging sharp political elbows, in defense of Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, say, Black beats himself up over past relationships and sings the praises of companionship. He talks about his failed career as a playwright, bringing up theater because “I like to feel the interest of the audience leave the room.”

☆ That’s the Funny Thing About Grief
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Either way, there’s no question that in certain quarters of comedy, jokes are not enough. For instance, at shows around New York, the quirky, swaggering Gastor Almonte has been performing a hilarious 10 to 15 minutes about his hatred of oatmeal. In a previous era that might have added up to a debut special that resembled the work of Jim Gaffigan. “What is trauma but unmonetized content?” he asks, echoing a line from “WandaVision,” a series that itself is a grief narrative. “We don’t talk about grief: We keep our grief to ourselves,” Kayne says in “Sorry for Your Loss.” Glazer hit this same theme.

☆ Jim Gaffigan Values Fear, Longs for Naps and Dreams of Deep-Dish
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Chris Kornelis | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

I remember hearing about Ronald Reagan napping, and it was presented as not a thing of weakness, but almost like a retirement thing. 5Deep-Dish PizzaI have a long-distance love affair with Chicago deep-dish pizza. What’s confusing about Chicago deep-dish pizza is that there’s way too much of it. What’s amazing about this pen is that they work great, then they eventually explode in your hand. If you’ve printed out something and you put black notes on, you’re going to miss those.

Peter Pan & Wendy, the newest live action spin on the classic story of Never Land, is now streaming on Disney Plus. Barrie, Peter Pan & Wendy follows the three Darling children on a journey to the magical Never Land with the help of Peter Pan. Lowery also serves as co-writer of the screenplay for Peter Pan & Wendy, alongside Toby Halbrooks. How to watch Peter Pan & WendyYou can watch Peter Pan & Wendy at home worldwide with a Disney Plus subscription. Watch the trailer for Peter Pan & WendyWhat other Peter Pan movies can I watch?

☆ ‘Linoleum’ Review: Jim Gaffigan’s Cosmic Midlife Crisis
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Kyle Smith | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Midlife disappointment becomes a problem in much the same way as bankruptcy overtook Mike Campbell in “The Sun Also Rises”—gradually, then suddenly. Jim Gaffigan is an inspired choice to play its flabby, saggy embodiment in the quirky dramedy “Linoleum,” in which he plays a frustrated, 50-something children’s television-show host who is beginning to agree with everyone around him that his existence hasn’t added up to much. Mr. Gaffigan is a sneakily brilliant stand-up who deserves more opportunities to shine on the big screen. I wouldn’t cast him as Batman or Thor, but in the small subset of movies that remain centered on characters much like ourselves, he is underutilized. With his body-by-Pillsbury shape and his aura of being woefully familiar with defeat, he makes for a much more convincing option as an aggrieved Everyman than, say, George Clooney .

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