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	The Comedians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Comedians was a British television show of the 1970s (later reprised in the 1980s) which gave a stage to nightclub and working men's club comedians of the era, including Stan Boardman, George Roper, Roy Walker, Tom O'Connor, Frank Carson, Jim Bowen, Charlie Williams, Mike Reid, Duggie Brown, and Bernard Manning.
		It was produced by Johnnie Hamp of Granada Television.
		Working men's clubs are numerous in Britain, especially in North East England and have been a useful training ground for artists, especially comedians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Comedians (364 words)

	In Memoriam: Graham Greene, 1904-91
		Greene spent time in Haiti in the mid-1960s and emerged with a chilling novel, The Comedians, whose underlying theme is the state terror of "Papa Doc" Duvalier.
		I remember one moment in that novel where a guerrilla leader is accused of being "amateurish." "Of course we're amateurs," the guerrilla responds soberly.
		His novels' characters were semi-autobiographical creatures, torn by doubt and disbelief, but attaining humanity and nobility almost despite themselves.
	adamjones.freeservers.com /greene.htm (908 words)

	Amazon.com: The Comedians (Twentieth Century Classics): Books: Graham Greene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		One of Graham Greene's most chilling and prophetic novels, The Comedians is set in a Haiti ruled by Papa Doc and the Tontons Macoute, his sinister secret police.
		The comedians all prove to be actors playing on a stage filled with political violence and the everpresent threat of more to come.
		He is derisively referred to as "the Presidential Candidate" throughout the novel and utilizes this sobriquet as a method of influencing the Duvalier government to approve of his scheme.
	www.amazon.com /Comedians-Twentieth-Century-Classics/dp/0140184945 (2805 words)

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		Comedians USA acts only as an entertainment broker/producer for corporate functions, private engagements and special events.
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		Comedians USA is one of the country's top corporate and special event production companies.
	www.comediansusa.com /magic/bruce-gold.html (386 words)

	Life And Work - Graham Greene
		Amongst other things, he was a film critic, until he caused the closedown of the magazine for which he worked by getting it involved in a libel action as a result of a comment he made about Shirley Temple.
		His novels are written in a contemporary realistic style, often featuring characters troubled by self-doubt and living in seedy or rootless circumstances.
		As his career lengthened, however, Greene and his readers both found the entertainments to be of nearly as high a value as the literary efforts, and Greenes later efforts such as The Human Factor, The Comedians (novel), Our Man in Havana and The Quiet American combine these modes into works of remarkable insight and compression.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Academia5271/graham-greene-life-and-work.html (365 words)

	Amazon.ca: Penguin Classics Comedians: Books: Graham Greene,Paul Theroux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In THE COMEDIANS, he is at his sardonic best, laying scalpel to the repressive, casually violent regime of "Papa Doc" Duvalier in Haiti, as seen through the eyes of Brown, a hotelier with nearly nothing left to believe in.
		The comedians are all refugees of WWII: Brown's aunt fought in the resistance and Martha is the daughter of a Nazi,and Major Jones fought in Burma, or so he says.
		And as a study of commitment and neutrality, the novel is on a par with Greene's The Quiet American.
	www.amazon.ca /Penguin-Classics-Comedians-Graham-Greene/dp/0143039199 (1515 words)

	Alibris: Comedians
		This novel about a group of stand-up comics in New York City was written by former stand-up comic Bill Maher.
		From the #1 bestselling author, an untitled book of original comedic essays for the adult market focusing on the theme of why Americans are hooked on such bad eating, drinking and other self-indulgent and self-destructive health-related behaviors, beginning in childhood and continuing through old age.
		This definitive biography of the late comedian is based on six years of research by the author, on Kaufman's own unpublished never-before-seen writings, and hundreds of interviews with family members, friends, and colleagues.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Comedians (1236 words)

	The Comedians (novel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Comedians is a novel by Graham Greene, first published in 1966.
		The setting for much of the novel, the Hotel Trianon, was inspired by the Hotel Oloffson in central Port-au-Prince.
		The novel was made into a motion picture in 1967 with Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Ustinov, James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, and Lillian Gish.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Comedians_(novel) (129 words)

	Adam Richard Interview
		There are certainly a lot of comedians who are similar in nature, but to be successful requires you to be a lot different than everyone else.
		If you say "I like that guy that tells the joke about his dick" you could be talking about ten or fiteen guys that regularly appear at the espy.
		My friend Eric Dando wrote a book called "Snail" which is one of the most affecting and hilarious novels I have ever read.
	www.angelfire.com /co2/aussiecomedians/AdamRichardinterview.html (782 words)

	La MaMa E.T.C.
		While touching on the social and political issues in the industrial north of England in the period, the play also focuses on how different approaches to comedy can either embrace truth and what unites us, or make us laugh at others' pain and misfortune.
		Because a sizable portion of “Comedians” is set in a nightclub, The Club, La MaMa’s cabaret theater, was a natural choice for this production.
		The role of the teacher Eddie Waters, a talented old comedian who once nearly made it to the top, is played by English-born George Taylor.
	www.lamama.org /archives/2001_2002/COMEDIANS.htm (957 words)

	Trevor Griffiths Summary
		Starting from a premise that [Comedians] is novel and rich with antic possibility, the play manages to scuttle itself with perfunctory, self-righteous anger.
		Set in Manchester, Comedians begins with a group of young men who aspire to be nightclub comics, meeting in one of those dismal cubicles of adult education….
		The six young apprentice comics who attend the evening classes organised by one-time master comedian, Eddie Waters [in Comedians], are under no illusions about the state of their chosen profession….
	www.bookrags.com /Trevor_Griffiths (391 words)

	TIME.com: Laid-Back Camaraderie -- Jan. 28, 1980 -- Page 1
		This may seem a small felicity, but it is precisely the sort of thing that writers of parboiled Hollywood romans à clef usually get wrong or skip altogether in their haste to get to the casting couch and the boudoir.
		Comedians contains just one star other than its central comics, and she is only a walk-on.
		But Carpenter also knows that the simulacrum of love with which his comics are re warded is more than most people, leading their ad hoc, late 20th century lives, ever get.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,923937,00.html (641 words)

	Comedians
		It was during that period I attended the Voodoo ceremony I describe in the novel.
		He wanted to teach the use of the silk screen to Haitian artists, so that they could earn a better living by selling reproductions of their paintings in the States…One night the three of us braved the dark to visit the brothel I have described as Mere Catherine's.
		Smith" began to draw the girls who had been dancing together decorously and decoratively, and the Tontons glared through their dark glasses at this strange spectacle of a fearless happiness and an innocence they couldn't understand.
	members.tripod.com /~greeneland/comedians.htm (514 words)

	NovelGuide: Biography: Graham Greene
		The Name of Action and Rumour at Nightfall, his next two novels, did not fare so well, but Stamboul Train (1932), his fourth novel, established his literary reputation.
		The latter is regarded as one of Greene’s finest novels, and it was awarded a major literary prize, The Hawthornden.
		Greene first conceived the idea for The Power and the Glory when a Mexican man told him about a priest who had been so drunk at the baptism of the man’s son that he had given the baby a girl’s name.
	www.novelguide.com /PowerGlory/biography.html (427 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Gibson made a conspicuous break with his cyberpunk roots in those novels, creating near-future narratives notable for their maturity, sophistication and strong, thoughtful characterization.
		As the comedians' ship drifts helplessly into an asteroid belt, the Bowie 4.5 android continues to probe the co-dependent mysteries of comedy and human existence.
		Readers will also find that while Carleton's research pays adequate attention to the contributions of women comedians, the novel's on-stage female characters fall into two distinct categories: shrewish control freaks and helpless victims.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue131/books.html (1136 words)

	comedians - OneLook Dictionary Search
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	VQR » An Interview with John McNally
		I wrote a nonfiction book about film comedians when I was in the eighth grade, typed it all out on a manual cast-iron typewriter, and tried to find a publisher, but only one publisher would even look at it.
		It’s a novel about none other than Hank and Ralph, including a long chapter featuring the two meeting up again when they are older, in their thirties.
		Failure is an important facet to being successful in writing, and until you accept failure as a positive thing, you’re always going to let that get in the way of breaking through to the good stuff, the writing that’s true and honest and worth publishing.
	www.vqronline.org /webexclusive/2004/03/16/mcnally-interview (3772 words)

	Richard Morse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Richard hosted gigs by different rasin bands in the early days of the development of the sound, when the Oloffson was one of the few places that could be relied on as a venue.
		it was the inspiration for "hotel trianon", the scene of graham greene's novel "The comedians".
		Looking for a job he ended up being the manager of the landmark Hotel Oloffson that was falling in ruins and made famous by Graham Green as the focal point of his novel "The Comedians".
	www.artmediahaiti.com /amh-spotlight/richard-morse.htm (1668 words)

	Featured Author: Graham Greene
		"By far the most agitating aspect of the film Peter Glenville has made from Graham Greene's novel, 'The Comedians,' is the sinister image it presents of a rigid reign of terror in a Caribbean country.
		Greene's obituary says that his "novels of suspense and moral ambiguity plumbed the sordid politics of the modern world and the inner torments of mankind."
		A series of excerpts from "The Comedians," "Another Mexico" and "Ways of Escape" are selected to show the relevance of Greene's work to current events in Haiti, Cuba and Mexico.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/00/02/20/specials/greene.html (1930 words)

	Katheline St. Fort, Haitian creativity outlasted nation’s tyranny
		He distrusted everyone and nothing in the country was [done in] secret.
		Or, they were politically harmless exercises like Raphael Stines’ 1975 screen adaptation of Jacques Roumain’s prize-winning novel The Governors of the Dew.
		Then, in 1985, Raynald Delerme, who had left Haiti to study film abroad, returned and teamed with the late comedian Theodore Beaubrun for the successful, shot-on-video Founerailles (The Funeral).
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/43a/540.html (483 words)

	Meanwhile: In Haiti, nostalgia for a dictator - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune
		There is Papa Doc's fl top hat, gold-handled cane and thick spectacles, all of which Duvalier affected to make himself resemble Baron Samedi, the voodoo divinity of the graveyards, and thus be more feared.
		"Poor Haiti and the character of Dr. Duvalier's rule are not invented, the latter not flened for dramatic effect," Graham Greene wrote about "The Comedians," his novel of expatriate life and love under Papa Doc's tyranny.
		I was hoping to enjoy a refreshment with him beneath the slowly turning ceiling fans on the balcony of the famed turn-of-the-century Hotel Oloffson, on which Greene based his Hotel Trianon.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/08/21/opinion/edpringle.php (701 words)

	Sobaka :: Cannibals and Comedians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		New waves of botpippel will wash up in Miami, causing more consternation to politicians who lament that they're too dark to be "real" refugees like the palefaces from Cuba.
		Journalists will write more stories referencing Graham Greene's novel The Comedians, which is to hack writing about Haiti as Joseph Conrad is to stories about the "heart of darkness", Africa.
		The people go on, though, with the timelessness of silence, cleaning up what their betters have left behind, with the bearing of a machine that always seems to be on the verge of breaking down, but never does.
	www.diacritica.com /sobaka/2002/comedians.html (1202 words)

	New Document
		Re: Item #900145---The COMEDIANS, a Novel set in Haiti by Graham Greene.
		A novel set in Haiti during Doctor Duvalier's reign.
		The book has a cloth cover and measures about 8-1/2" by 5-3/4" with 275 pages.
	www.epier.com /iq.asp?900145 (115 words)

	Matlock TV Show - Matlock Television Show - TV.com
		Led by an Emmy Award-winning cast, "Boston Legal" returns for a third season to tell the professional and personal stories of a group of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys....
		Based on the critically acclaimed novel of the same name, this series provided a hopeful, yet honest look at life in the new South.
		This long-running series was built upon Erle Stanley Gardner´s many novels about a brilliant defense lawyer and...
	www.tv.com /matlock/show/216/summary.html (670 words)

	The Comedians (1967) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Plot Summary: Set in the Haiti of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, The Comedians tells the story of a sardonic white hotel owner...
		But no matter how serious the message, a movie's first responsibility is to be well made and effective.
		The Comedians tries way too hard to be "meaningful."
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0061502 (343 words)

	Graham Greene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Greene divided his books into what he labeled "entertainments" (mostly psychological thrillers such as "This Gun For Hire", "The Confidential Agent" and "Our Man in Havana") and "novels" (works dealing with moral, religious or political themes, such as "Brighton Rock", "The Power and the Glory", "The Heart of the Matter" and "The Quiet American")....
		The Comedians - (Novel as Source Material(("The Comedians")) / 1967 / Released / MGM Pictures)
		Across the Bridge - (Novel as Source Material / 1957 / Released / J Arthur Rank Organization)
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	Amazon.com: The Comedians: Books: Graham Greene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I do not know if this master British novelist visited any or all of the countries about which he wrote.
		Graham Greene did not feel this was his favorite work, and according to Paul Theroux, it's not his best.
		Although Brown's brooding is sometimes self-centered and indulgent, you will still walk away from this novel richer for having read it.
	www.amazon.com /Comedians-Graham-Greene/dp/0140027661 (2837 words)

	The Comedians - Moviefone
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	Comedy Central: Comedians: William Shatner
		His novel series TekWar was turned into a television series for The Sci-Fi Network (in which he starred and directed).
		Some of his other popular novels include Man O' War, Star Trek Avenger and Ashes of Eden.
		He wrote two books on his Star Trek career in the titles Star Trek Memories and Star Trek Movie Memories before penning Get A Life!, a hilarious but endearing look at the cult of Star Trek Conventions.
	www.comedycentral.com /comedians/browse/s/william_shatner.jhtml (1350 words)

	New DVD Classics
		This is clearly a labor of love; though I can't imagine trying to watch all this in a month of Sundays, I could see dipping into it from time to time.
		The dynamic qualities of motion pictures are explored by cameramen and filmmakers through novel experiments in technique and form.
		This is yet another fine Kino Video production of a deluxe 2-disc edition featuring more silent comedy by one of the era's foremost comedians, Harold Lloyd.
	www.dvd-today.com /new/classics/dvd.html (863 words)

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