11/30/2008
MTC Adds Humor Abuse to Season, Announces Casting for Ruined, Accent on Youth (Playbill)
Manhattan Theatre Club announced more details about its spring 2009 season, including casting for two titles and the addition of a world premiere, Humor Abuse, by performer Lorenzo Pisoni and director Erica Schmidt.
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12/01/2008
Clown?s Son Has Show Added to Season (New York Times)
?Humor Abuse,? a world premiere solo show, has been added to Manhattan Theater Club?s spring schedule.
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12/01/2008
Cheech and Chong light up skits old and new (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
After 25 years apart, Cheech and Chong didn't have to worry that the humor they perfected, if not pioneered, would be stale.
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12/01/2008
Viral load: Contagion of humor sells lab stuff (BizJournals)
Viral videos of dancing lab techs, a soul-singing lecturer and a boy band crooning about lab automation are transforming the staid world of life sciences equipment.
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11/30/2008
Humor holds power to heal (Denver Post)
The off-color jokes flew around the room. As the anecdotes got bawdier, the laughter intensified. Some recited from memory, others read from notebooks they had brought along.
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12/01/2008
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT: Book Review: Sedaris' humor hums in latest collection of essays (The Dartmouth)
David Sedaris is the last person you'd want to sit next to on a plane, and he'd tell you so himself. In one of the funniest moments of his latest book, "When You Are Engulfed in Flames"(2008), the comic essayist struggles to enjoy flying in the "Business Elite" section of the plane, while sitting next to a man on his way to a funeral.
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12/01/2008
Between the Lines: Titles of the holiday kind (The Sacramento Bee)
Is it the start of December already? We'd best get on with rounding up some holiday- oriented books, which include mystery, humor, feel-good and romance: "Dashing Through the Snow" by Mary and Carol Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster, $23, 240 pages): The mother-daughter (respectively) mystery writers set their fifth yuletide suspense novel in a small New Hampshire town. Two visiting ...
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12/01/2008
Cheech and Chong light up skits old and new (Reuters via Yahoo!7 News)
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - After 25 years apart, Cheech and Chong didn't have to worry that the humor they perfected, if not pioneered, would be stale.
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12/01/2008
11/30/2008 (The Journal News)
Broadway veteran-turned-playwright, Todd Sussman, is back with “Him” at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton. Unique, provocative and hilarious, the last Jew on earth is in the Brooklyn Museum. Is he an exhibit, a hostage, or just the janitor? His only contact is with a faceless monitor through an intercom. Susman uses his talented wacky humor and vaudevillian style to explore the ties that bind ...
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12/01/2008
Sound Bite: Holmgreen gets a Kronos shine (The Sacramento Bee)
The greatest gift the Kronos Quartet gives a composer is a listener's desire to hear more. This is the great shine that Kronos adds to the music of Danish composer Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen on this CD. Holmgreen is a composer who uses humor and unbridled musical exploration to great effect. This makes him well-matched to the time-tested Kronos paradigm. The opening track of the 20-minute ...
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