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Marty Callner made the first modern special, setting the template still in use. (He was also key to hair-metal videos. But that’s another story.)

On Thursday (May 19), Netflix will air a special called The Hall: Honoring the Greats of Stand-Up — and Mix Master Mike will provide the original score as music director.

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Radio Free Athens (RFA) runs on Saturdays on WOUB 1340 AM and allows community volunteers and Ohio University students to present music and interview content through a format-free, host-driven program

When Comedy Went to SchoolThe birth of modern standup comedy began in the Catskill MountainsThursday, April 21 at 10 pmWhy are there so many Jewish comedi

>> nobody knew what you could do. nobody knew what you couldnt do. but you were desperately trying not to be commercial television. >> how much time we got? >> ladies and gentlemen, robert klein! >> the beauty of it was you didnt have to pack everything quickly. you could warm up and get to know and take the stage so to speak. >> the talk shows are okay. you know, i do "the tonight show." i come in, i have to be funny in a hurry. gets a little tiring. six minutes and boom, boom, boom, boom! >> i...

And it is not an overnight success. >> presenting the pennsylvania polka festival. >> the oft-repeated saying was "getting people to pay for tv will be like getting them to pay for air." >> saturday mornings they would play band music and youd see slides of nothing. >> nobody knew what you could do. nobody knew what you couldnt do. but you were desperately trying not to be commercial television. >> how much time we got? >> ladies and gentlemen, robert klein! >> the beauty of it was you didnt hav...

Now that Susan Vass has retired from standup, Robert Klein is my favorite comedian. Everything he says makes me laugh. I have greatly enjoyed his HBO specials. I have a compilation of eight of his HBO specials on DVD. I even enjoyed his memoir The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue (2005). He also drew on it for one of the HBO specials. Im so old -- no joke, as our

Producers aim to make stand-up set a monthly event to show what 'regular Jews' are like and knock out stereotypes

Trying to usher in a new generation of Jewish comedians with their new monthly stand-up show in New York City