The Comedy Cellar

Stand up comedians are a dime a dozen, but very few actually have the talent and the longevity to entertain audiences for years. Most comedians just end up rehashing old material as they run out of creativity. Only a few of the very best keep coming up with relevant material, while others just fade into obscurity.

These three comedians listed below are truly among comedy royalty:

1. George Carlin
Without doubt, Carlin was among the finest of comedians to perform on stage. Naturally gifted, what’s remarkable about Carlin is his dramatic transformation from a clean cut, straight laced funny man to an iconoclastic rebel whose jokes were aimed primarily at destroying the status quo. While his “Seven Words You Can’t Say on TV” routine is a classic, Carlin stayed relevant even until his death, perfomring in several HBO specials and releasing everything from books to DVDs well into his late years.

2. Jerry Seinfeld
Jerry Seinfeld’s show, “Seinfeld”, was at one point, the no.1 show in the US. Its finale had a whopping 75 million viewers. Even today, reruns of the show enjoy considerable popularity. Seinfeld’s brand of humor, with its dry sarcasm and observations on the banal and trivial details of daily life, is followed now by pretty much every young comedian. If you like your humor intelligent and deeply observational, Seinfeld is the man for you.

3. Dave Chapelle
Dave Chapelle is easily one of the funniest men alive. At one point, the “Dave Chapelle Show” commanded a huge audience and was all set for its 3rd season before Dave opted out due to stress and general creative dissatisfaction with the show’s format (and this AFTER the show had been universally lauded by fans and critics alike for its humor). Chapelle’s brand of humor is highly subversive and he routinely takes on controversial topics while still staying funny.

By: John Newcomb

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Have you noticed the most recent news today? Have you noticed how much of the important news and issues facing society today are pushed more and more onto the “back burner?” This is because more and more the media is focused on the entertainment industries, rather than “real news.” That’s both the blessing and the curse for entertainment news today, it becomes good for the entertainment industry and bad for the REAL news industry.

What the major problem with focusing on nothing but entertainment-related “news” is, is the fact that our society is not keeping itself informed about the major issues and current events in our society when they are constantly bombarded with nothing but entertainment industry “news.” The complacency with which most have ALLOWED this to occur is the saddest part of this, because the average person no longer cares about major issues or world events.

And what’s even worse is that what television, magazines and internet sources are calling entertainment news today is no longer even “real” news, but merely like a constantly running gossip column. When the highlight of a news piece is what someone bought at a convenience store, what color their hair is today, or whether or not they and their significant other is having problems- that’s not news, it’s merely gossip.

Not to mention, whenever celebrities are constantly followed around by money-hungry gossip magazine photographers or constantly speculated upon by numerous different persons in the media, their privacy and basic human rights are trampled on. All for the sake of so-called “news.”

The average person doesn’t get their face splashed all over the media anytime they buy a gallon of milk, a box of condoms or get a speeding ticket- is it right to force that upon celebrities just because they’re famous and call it “news?” That is the biggest part of the problem with entertainment news today, things that aren’t really newsworthy are being reported and discussed as if they were.

What one needs to do, if they’re fed up with the lack of newsworthy reporting in the media is to complain to the media companies, newspapers and magazines about the lack of quality news that is being put out by the media companies. If enough people take the initiative and make a stand and demand better news and reporting, then the media will change to give people what they want.

If people don’t demand change, and stay complacent about the condition of the the news and reporting processes, then entertainment news today will stay as it is, and the media will continue to report on non-newsworthy items such as who ate what for breakfast, how much someone’s ridiculously large diamond ring cost, and who got a speeding ticket the night before.

By: Wendy Pan

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