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Takes One to Know One
Comedian David Steinberg continues in his role as “ear”—that is, a sounding board—to some of the funniest people working today. David Steinberg: Thank you for doing this. Jerry Seinfeld: This is one of my favorite things. The greatest thing about being a...Tags: Jerry Seinfeld, Career and Workplace, Bud Abbott, Documentary (genre), Bill Cosby
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Harvey Korman, 81; versatile Emmy-winning comedian
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterHarvey Korman, an Emmy-winning comedic actor best known for playing the self-described "luminous second banana" for a decade on television's "The Carol Burnett Show" and for starring in such Mel Brooks films as "Blazing Saddles," has died. He was 81....Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Hospitals and Clinics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Television
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'Carol Burnett Show's' Harvey Korman Dies
Harvey Korman, an Emmy-winning comedic actor best known for playing the self-described "luminous second banana" for a decade on "The Carol Burnett Show" and for starring in such Mel Brooks films as "Blazing Saddles," has died. He was 81. Korman, who...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Hospitals and Clinics, Los Angeles Times, University of California, Los Angeles, Television
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2 Moliere one-acts simmer; so does tough 'Braising'
Special to the TribuneRalph and Alice, meet Sganarelle and Martine. Carrie and Samantha, do you know Madelon and Cathos? In City Lit Theater Company's bumpy but occasionally engaging pair of one-acts by Moliere, adapted and directed by Page Hearn, one doesn't have to look hard...Tags: Atlanta Braves, Jackie Gleason, John Rocker, Gary Glitter
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Funnyman Buddy Hackett dies at 78
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBuddy Hackett, who broke into comedy as a young waiter-performer in New York's Catskill Mountains and went on to achieve iconic status as a raunchy nightclub performer and rubber-faced clown in movies including "The Music Man" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,...Tags: Jay Mohr, North Africa, Los Angeles Times, Johnny Carson, Milton Berle
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Too Much Sleep
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday March 23, 2001 David Maquiling's "Too Much Sleep" is a droll slacker comedy about a small-town New Jersey security guard whose search for his stolen pistol proves to be a depth charge: Marc Palmieri's 24-year-old Jack doesn't realize when...Tags: Crimes, Career and Workplace, Comedy (genre), Movies, Entertainment
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BASEketball
FOR THE TIMESFriday July 31, 1998 Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the . . . uh, talent behind Comedy Central's IQ-challenged "South Park" cartoon show, take their act in front of the cameras in David Zucker's "BASEketball," where they prove to be dumber than "Dumb &...Tags: Al Michaels, Bud Abbott, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn, Ernest Borgnine
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