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'Broken Lizard: Stands Up' - The "Lizard" Team Prays to the Comedy Gods (VIDEO)

by Oliver Miller, posted Sep 13th 2010 2:03AM
'Broken Lizard: Stands Up' - the 'Lizard' Team Prays to the Comedy GodsEven if you've been working in the comedy world for a long, long time, having your first nationally televised stand-up special must be kind of ... stressful. The 'Broken Lizard' sketch comedy troupe has been together since they met as college students in 1990. Since then, they've released many films -- including 'Super Troopers' and 'Beerfest.' But 'Broken Lizard: Stands Up' (Sat., 12AM ET on Comedy Central) is their first TV special.

And so, to open up their show, Jay Chandrasekhar and the rest of his team began with a brief, desperate prayer to the gods of comedy. Here is part of that heavenly plea: "May our jokes fly true, and hit their targets ... like God's arrows," said Erik Stolhanske. Unfortunately, the prayer sort of fell apart after this point.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The TiVo Guy

by Jonathan Toomey, posted Oct 22nd 2007 2:02AM

Kevin Heffernan and Larry David
(S06E07) "I'm leaving." - Cheryl

Wow. I don't want to say that was the best episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm ever... but it might have been. I don't recall ever feeling so conflicted, angry, confused, and giddy all at the same time while watching this show but now I know what it's like. The whole season has really been building up to this. Hell, the whole series has. We'd always wondered what it would take for Cheryl to finally call it quits. Now we know. Poor airplane phone reception.

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