PROTEAN PRESENCE
Mar 09, 2021
1 minute
was a major force—arguably, major force—in rearranging Americans’ standards for popular entertainment. First, he and Elaine May replaced the bing-bang-boom style of stand-up comedy with scripted sketches and improvisations finding the humor in awkward situations in which ordinary
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