The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Please send some thanks and gratitude to comedian Will Durst this Thanksgiving. His wife, comedian Debi Durst, revealed that Will has been hospitalized and unable to perform since suffering a stroke on Oct. 7. “Will has never lost the ability to speak or communicate, and he jokes with his nursing …
Will Durst wants me to publish this interview before the world ends. “There’s the possibility it could all end tomorrow,” Durst told me over the phone. “I mean it! Every morning we don’t wake up with a mushroom cloud is a victory.” Well, Durst told me this last week, so…so …
Many comedians are using their offstage time to sound off on the 2008 presidential election, now less than two weeks away. The Huffington Post, in particular, appears to be a platform for several comedians… Larry David doesn’t know if he can handle watching the election returns come in on Nov. …
Yes, yes, The Daily Show has its own irreverent cable TV "news" spin on the political conventions, but in this groovy new media world, it’s all about online video and blogs and vlogs and going low-budget, low-key, low-tech. At the first convention I covered as a reporter (Democrats, New York …
After six years, comedians don’t even have to write jokes about President George W. Bush.To them, Bush seems to write his own punchlines into the daily headlines.Which makes being a satirist tougher than ever.“You can’t parody a parody,” Will Durst tells me.“I actually had a Republican come up to me …
