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Elayne Boosler See Elayne on four out of the six new Season 2 episodes of the hit series CNN’s “History of Comedy”, Sunday nights at 10pm.
The History of Comedy. Season 2 begins Sunday, July 15th 2018. “This new CNN Original Series explores what makes us laugh, why, and how that’s influenced our social and political landscape throughout history.”
when I do @UnmaskedShow with Ron Bennington. 5:30pm @SIRIUSXM studios, midtown. We’ll talk everything comedy, & my new boxed set “Elayne Boosler – Timeless” now for pre order @ Amazon.Elayne Boosler and Alan Bursky tell it all, the history of the Comedy Store and lots of funny stories. Listen here.
5 Questions with Comedian, Animal Activist, and Puzzler Elayne Boosler!
Welcome to 5 Questions, our recurring interview series where we reach out to puzzle constructors, game designers, writers, filmmakers, musicians, artists, and puzzle enthusiasts from all walks of life!
Editor’s Note: Comedian/writer/animal activist Elayne Boosler has performed live, on TV and radio for over 40 years. On August 31, Comedy Dynamics will release “Timeless,” a boxed set of her TV specials and her new CD. Catch up at Elayneboosler.com. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. Watch Boosler in season 2 of The “History of Comedy,” Sundays at 10 p.m. (ET/PT). Note: Readers may find some of the language below, offensive.
(CNN) “Comedy” is now the fall guy.
Williams offstage was as withdrawn as onstage he was vivacious. “If you met him during the day you’d never know what he became at night,” the comedian Elayne Boosler recalls.
“Robin started pursuing me, I had never been so pursued in my life,” Boosler says in an interview. “All the comics were so caring for me and they said ‘you know we think he has a girlfriend in San Francisco’…I said, ‘do you have a girlfriend in San Francisco?”….
In “Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind,” airing Monday, July 16, on HBO, the director Marina Zenovich captures that quicksilver genius through archival clips and interviews of Mr. Williams and reminiscences by Billy Crystal, Steve Martin, Bobcat Goldthwait, Pam Dawber and Elayne Boosler, as well as his older son, Zak. Skipping from strength to strength — his Juilliard studies, skyrocket to fame in “Mork & Mindy,” milestone performance at the Met Opera and Oscar win for “Good Will Hunting” — the documentary also digs into Mr. Williams’s substance abuse and mental health. And while his suicide on Aug. 11, 2014, is given swift attention — Mr. Williams had received a misdiagnosis of Parkinson’s; an autopsy revealed Lewy body dementia instead — Ms. Zenovich still proves her point: Mr. Williams was happiest when he made the world laugh. KATHRYN SHATTUCK
The testifiers include early-days girlfriend and fellow comic Elayne Boosler (“I’ve never been so pursued in my life”)…
