After five Tony Awards, 674 performances and 32 previews, the musical comedy The Drowsy Chaperone will close Dec. 30 at the Marquis Theatre. The show played to capacity audiences for a long time and moved into the profit column, but for the past six months the crowds had stopped coming. According to the Toronto Read More
“I love the idea that we’re just allowed to riff, like jazz,” said Bob Saget at The Aristocrats premiere after-party at Caroline’s comedy club last week. “It’s like giving 100 people a nude to paint. About twenty of them won’t paint her naked, and then some will paint her so graphically – like, gynecological – Read More
Last night’s Aristocrats premiere turned out to be part lofty paean to artistic freedom, part botched Bar Mitzvah.
The film—which we’ve been hearing about for so, so long—is, of course, about an inside joke among comedians that opens with a family entering a talent agent’s office to perform an act. Just what that act is Read More
Bob Saget walked into the lobby of the Hudson Hotel and thrust out his hand. The tall, fit 48-year-old was wearing a zip-up sweatshirt, faded jeans and Converse loafers. I was eager to ask him to tell a famous dirty joke, a joke so well known among comedians it’s the subject of its own documentary, Read More
