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☆ Chiseled Cheekbones and Comic Chops: Why We Don’t Like Our Stand-Ups Hunky
  + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Jason Zinoman | More About Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Comedy has been the rare field where square jaws and chiseled features can count against you. Bob Odenkirk once said that it was impossible for men to be funny and sexy. Attractiveness has entered the maw of the culture war because the stigma against beautiful men has been fading. But you now see handsome men everywhere, even at small Brooklyn shows like the one where a comic introduced the endearingly cute Lucas O’Neil by citing not his credits but his cheekbones. Kumail Nanjiani most famously, but Chris Rock showing off his abs in The Hollywood Reporter took me more by surprise.
Persons: Bob Odenkirk, John Mulaney, Anthony Jeselnik, Pete Davidson, “, Jimmy Fallon, Lucas, Trevor Noah, Colin Jost —, “ You’ve, Nanjiani, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld Organizations: Twitter, ”, Hollywood, Daily Beast Locations: Brooklyn
☆ 4 Shows to Catch at the New York Comedy Festival
  + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Jason Zinoman | More About Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
An absolute legend of stand-up, Margaret Cho is a touchstone for many performers. They have worked on both coasts and accumulated many television credits, but they will operate out of a leading house of improvisation. Alex EnglishNov. 12, Chelsea Music HallA seasoned sketch television writer, Alex English is a reliable killer in stand-up sets. His new show, “Alex English Prays the Gay Away,” finds him at longer form, and there should be a bounty of hard-hitting punchlines. For more details on the shows, go to nycomedyfestival.com.
Persons: Margaret Cho, ”, Tami Sagher, Chris Gethard, Alex English, “ Alex English Organizations: UCB, Chelsea Music Hall Locations: nycomedyfestival.com
☆ With a Chuckle and a Cool-Girl Smirk, Beth Stelling Moves Up a Comic Class
  + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Jason Zinoman | More About Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
The stand-up Beth Stelling reminds me so much of my best friend from high school. Stelling belongs to a different tradition: Her comedy emerges from an onstage character as rich and resonant as a great movie protagonist. Even if you don’t know someone like Stelling, her fully realized performance makes you feel as if you do. She once again uses him as a comic target, telling scathingly deadpan stories about his eccentricities, centering one bit on his raccoon collection. But watching her roast him you can’t help but think that some of his performance chops rubbed off on her.
Persons: Beth Stelling, Stelling, “, Beavis, ”, Max, didn’t Organizations: Netflix Locations: Orlando , Florida
☆ Lying in Comedy Isn’t Always Wrong, but Hasan Minhaj Crossed a Line
  + stars: | 2023-09-20 | by ( Jason Zinoman | More About Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
All artists teach their audience how to view them, by the way they tell jokes, their style, the level of absurdity. What makes Hasan Minhaj such a troubling example is that his style, onstage and often off in interviews, suggested we should believe him. Lying in comedy isn’t necessarily wrong. The problem with only considering the standard of emotional truth is that it can blind you to the impact on the actual world outside your emotions. You could say that the emotional truth behind the Patriot Act was that the terrorism of Sept. 11 required extreme tactics to feel safe, but that doesn’t make the legislation right.
Persons: Taylor Tomlinson, Kate Berlant, Hasan, Minhaj, didn’t, ”, It’s Organizations: Patriot
☆ How Shane Gillis Both Plays to and Mocks Red Staters
  + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Jason Zinoman | More About Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
It’s no accident that two prime-time hosts on Fox (Jesse Watters and Greg Gutfeld) cut their teeth doing comedy, of sorts. Part of the reason Gillis is such a phenomenon is clearly political. (The title of the special is a Trump quote.) The Spectator called his success a major turning point in the resurgence of comedy. He compares the pull of it to that of a person turning into a werewolf.
Persons: Trump, It’s, Jesse Watters, Greg Gutfeld, Gillis, MAGA, Jackie Robinson, ”, “, “ I’m Organizations: Fox, Spectator, Trump, Fox News, Republican
☆ 5 Stand-Up Specials to Stream for the Labor Day Weekend
  + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Jason Zinoman | More About Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Todd Barry, ‘Domestic Shorthair’Stream it on YouTubeTodd Barry speaks fluent sarcasm. Ever since David Letterman retired from late night, sarcasm has no better champion. Barry starts waving its flag as soon as the applause settles down on his very funny new special. And some of his most unexpected laughs are in his own mixing up of mountains and molehills. “My printer broke recently,” he said, gently shifting gears to a parody of concern.
Persons: Todd Barry, YouTube Todd Barry, David Letterman, Barry, ”, he’s, ” Tracy Morgan, ‘, Max Organizations: YouTube
☆ In Pee-wee Herman, Joy and Fun Got Flat-Out Weird
  + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Jason Zinoman | More About Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Of all the great flesh-and-blood cartoons of 1980s popular culture — Hulk Hogan, Madonna, Mr. T — the one easiest for small children to relate to was Pee-wee Herman. In reality, Pee-wee Herman was nothing like us at all, a dreamy man-child in a red bow tie whose sugary smile could curl into a punky scowl. A singular piece of comic performance art for a mass audience, Pee-wee Herman stood out in every form he appeared in, from improv theaters to late-night talk shows to the movies to Saturday morning television. His appearances on that most ironic of late-night shows were like invasions from Candy Land. You laughed not because the jokes were funny, but because they were told with such commitment to the fun of it all.
Persons: Hulk Hogan, Madonna, Herman, wee Herman, Paul Reubens, David Letterman, ”, Brother Theodore, Harvey Pekar, Andy Kaufman Locations: Candy
☆ 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
☆ ‘Insidious: The Red Door’ Review: The Ghost of Jump Scares Past
  + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Jason Zinoman | More About Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
“Insidious,” whose fifth installment opened Friday, is a second-tier horror franchise — it’s not even the best James Wan franchise starring Patrick Wilson, which would be “The Conjuring” — with a few elite jump scares, including one of the best in the genre. In the original in 2010, Lorraine Lambert (Barbara Hershey) is telling her son, Josh (Wilson), about a horrible dream when a red-faced demon suddenly appears behind his head. It’s a magnificent shock because of the askew blocking, the patient misdirection of the editing and Hershey’s committed performance. In “Insidious: The Red Door,” a grim, workmanlike effort that collapses into woo-woo nonsense, Wilson makes his directorial debut, and demonstrates he grasps the importance of that jump scare, which is sketched in charcoal on paper next to his name in the opening credits. This prickly relationship is at the center of the movie, as dad drives his son to college.
Persons: it’s, James Wan, Patrick Wilson, Lorraine Lambert, Barbara Hershey, Josh, Wilson, askew, Hershey’s, Lorraine, Wilson doesn’t, Dalton, Ty Simpkins
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