This letter is associated with the following article:
Letters
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

Read other letters about this article

  • Saturday, February 11, 2006 08:18 PM

    Re: when good comedians go bad

    Gore Vidal quoted Tennesse Williams in his book Palimpsest: " An artist dies two deaths, their creative one and then their real one". Sometimes, somewhere that reservoir of pain that enables one to laugh at the sheer absurdity of life somehow just dries up. Maybe it has something to do with becoming successful and then complacent. Or, maybe once the joke has been said once or twice it just no longer flies. But it sure seems comedians don't have a very long shelf life.

    —conryw Read conryw's other letters

    Flag
Read other letters about this article

Most Active Letters Threads

405

I'm thankful I'm not President Obama

Backers deride Katrina-style negligence, haters hate him more each day. Can this presidency be saved? Of course
Joan Walsh Read article
320

Greg Craig and Obama's worsening civil liberties record

A new Time account of the fall of Obama's White House counsel sheds much light on rule of law issues.
Glenn Greenwald Read article
318

Tough-guy John Bolton, hiding under his bed

As usual, right-wing pseudo-warriors are drowning in extreme cowardice.
Glenn Greenwald Read article
153

Phil Carter's resignation from key detainee policy post

Many of the "War on Terror" policies he spent years condemning were ones expressly embraced by Obama.
Glenn Greenwald Read article
146

A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack

A vast array of establishment and expert sources do not believe this episode was really resolved.
Glenn Greenwald Read article

View all »

Letters Help

Currently in Salon