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Friday, February 10, 2006 12:00 AM

When good comedians go bad

Remember when Steve Martin, Albert Brooks and Woody Allen were funny? What on earth happened to our favorite funnymen?
By Stephanie Zacharek

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  • Friday, February 10, 2006 09:39 AM

    Why is Inspector Clouseau funny?

    I always thought the Inspector Clouseau thing was just a lot of anti-French hostility disguised as comedy. We thought Peter Sellers was funny for the same reason the French think Jerry Lewis is funny: It's always a howl to make fun of furriners.

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