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Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Litigator loses case, writes musical comedy about it

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Shangri-La-La poster at Arlington Drafthouse When a lawyer loses a case, the lawyer moves on. The experience might be quickly forgotten as r...
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

'Fisk' is the civil-practice lawyer you've been looking for

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If you're looking to fill that Netflix queue as the writers' strike drags on, check out the Australian sitcom, Fisk . When I put tog...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Does law school make students 'comedy-ready'?

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Zarna Garg (from Press Kit ) Zarna Garg is a comedian known for her identity as an Indian-American mom. She's also a lawyer. A lot of ...
Friday, February 12, 2021

Comedy of Roy Wood Jr. surfaces under-appreciated contributions of real historical black figures

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Roy Wood Jr. ( photo by Lisa Gansky CC BY-SA 2.0 ) I'm a big fan of Roy Wood Jr. , and every installment of his "CP Time" b...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

'Horace and Pete' captures American moment

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In our fast-paced platinum age of TV, a show foregone is too often vanished in the void, maybe a gem to be unearthed by a future socio-arch...
Saturday, October 17, 2020

Multi-ethnic kid crew fights bloodsucking gentrification

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Are you in need of a Stranger Things fix? Season 4 resumed filming a couple of weeks ago. In the meantime, Netflix's Vampires vs. the B...
Wednesday, October 7, 2020

Ted Lasso heads to UK, will coach AFC Richmond

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From The Daily Show with Trevor Noah ( Oct. 6, 2020 ) A new Apple TV+ show has Saturday Night Live alum Jason Sudekis playing southern-d...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

W. Kamau Bell solves racism.
Or at least makes some progress....

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My wife and I were privileged last night to see W. Kamau Bell speak at the Zeiterion Theatre in New Bedford, the show part of the New B...
Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Laughing with Lenny Bruce, from schmuck to conscience

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  Kitty Bruce cuts the ribbon on the Lenny Bruce archive at the Brandeis University Goldfarb Library. There is indecent language i...