Day: June 3, 2010

Stand-up comedian and satirist Jimmy Tingle hit primetime back in 1999 when he earned the "Andy Rooney" commentary slot on CBS' former 60 Minutes II. After he closed his own live theater in Somerville, Mass., in 2007, Tingle decided to go back to school, and this May, graduated with a master's degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Considering his credentials, it's perhaps not quite as surprising, then, to learn that Harvard picked his speech from a pool of 32 applicants to deliver at the university's commencement. Perhaps not surprising, but still worthy of congratulations. Here's the Boston Globe story on Tingle. And here's his address to the Harvard grads of 2010. Roll...

People like to argue with me when I say comedy is booming in a way not seen since the much-talked-about comedy boom of the 1980s, and while la plus ca has changed, the plus c'est la meme has chosen, am I right, Franglasians? I mean, when you open your computer in the morning and find that acclaimed writer David Mamet has decided to write and direct a porn spoof for Funny or Die set in the 1930s, with his own take on porn dialogue as read by Kristen Bell and Ed O'Neill with narration from character actor Ricky Jay? What's next, people? What's...