“Happy 9/11, everybody!”
It was actually September 9, nearly ten years after the attacks, and comedian Nick DiPaolo was on stage at the Gotham Comedy Club, where he’d been headlining, taking a chance that with a decade’s distance audiences might finally be ready to laugh—not about the thousands of dead, of course, but maybe about our shared anxieties and the collective experience of living with tragedy and fear. Read More
Today, presidential candidate John Edwards spoke in Washington Square Park at a rally in support of striking television writers. A few weeks earlier, Mr. Edwards had popped in on the strike lines in Los Angeles.
"We’re in this together," Mr. Edwards said, according to Variety.
"Stay strong, stay together," Mr. Edwards Read More
The Middle East has seen plenty of tall, pale men since the American infidels set their sights on Saddam Hussein, but perhaps no one as tall or as pale as Conan O’Brien. Sources at Late Night with Conan O’Brien and the U.S.O. told The Transom that Mr. O’Brien, along with the executive producer of his Read More
On Saturday, Sept. 29, Freddie Roman, the dean of New
York’s Friars Club, stood before audience members in the Grand Ballroom of the
New York Hilton and asked them to familiarize themselves with the fire exits.
Then, because he’d said that “these are very different times for us all,” he
attempted to answer a question Read More
On Saturday, Sept. 29, Freddie Roman, the dean of New York’s Friars Club, stood before audience members in the Grand Ballroom of the
New York Hilton and asked them to familiarize themselves with the fire exits.
Then, because he’d said that “these are very different times for us all,” he
attempted to answer a question Read More
In his white T-shirt and dark blazer, Friars Club dean Freddie Roman looked like a vacationing Vulcan, but as he stood on the stage of New York’s Town Hall on the evening of June 9, he had some important business to conduct. “To those of you who are not members or guests of the Friars, Read More
