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2006: It was a very good year ... for satirists and comics |
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Saturday, 20 January 2007 |
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Sun. Jan. 21 And you thought the year-in-review pieces had all been done? Not so. Dave Goodman and Marc Stern, who helm the 12-year-old WMBR radio show "Radio with a View," are taking their gig to the live stage Sunday January 21 at 4 p.m. They're at Jimmy Tingle's Off Broadway, and they'll be presenting the 2006 Chutzpah Awards, or recalling "the most outrageous things said or done by public figures during the past year." Is it just us or is 2006 particularly fertile territory? Maybe, it's just that every year seems better/worse than the last, but we've got to figure hypocritical Republican congressmen and evangelicals take a bit of a thumping. "2006 was enormously fertile," says Goodman. "Almost every week on the air we say 'What the hell is going on?' It's never ending. I tend to be an optimist and see the light at the end of the tunnel, but I understand people who see the tunnel at the end of the light. I'm a card-carrying leftist, but it's not just leftys - it's conservatives, retired generals, people from all stripes saying we've been duped. Marc and I try to be somewhat entertaining and bring some levity to it. If you didn't laugh, you'd go out of your mind." Stern and Goodman will also bring on some like-minded souls, Singer-activist Dave Lippman and George Shrub (the singing CIA agent), comic Bartunde Thurston and our favorite local Bush supporter satirists Billionaires for Bush (in photo, during rally), It costs $20, which might seem steep but the bucks go to the Family Nurturing Center and the Poor People's Uniited Fund. 255 Elm St., Davis Square, Somerville, 617-591-1616 jtoffbroadway.com
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