Forrest is a monomaniacal nebbish, Captain Ahab in a beige blazer.
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In any case, Valupro was run by a charming alcoholic nebbish named Sammy Yontif.
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The nebbish joy of stat tracking... with the explosive spectacle of an animated half-time show.
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The nebbish and the Croat spent their time drinking caseloads of prosecco and amiably throwing up starboard.
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In the eighties, Al Franken, then a producer on the show, recommended a pudgy nebbish named Jon Lovitz.
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In media, Jews tend to adhere to a narrow band of ethnic tropes: the nebbish, the neurotic, the overbearing mother.
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Simon makes comics about a witch named Megg, her boyfriend who is a cat named Mogg, and their nebbish roommate Owl.
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Back then, 'Manhattan' was made by Woody the Lovable Neurotic Nebbish, and now it has been made by Allen the Monster.
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In the footage shot that night, the character — more of a nebbish than a funk soul brother — cites his professional dance credentials.
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In his jeans and tweed jacket, he looks like a math tutor on a not-so-hot date, a nebbish of mystery.
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But even if the nebbish had said something and then Barry's fund had traded on that "material nonpublic information," where was the proof?
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He's the Soulful Loser: the pathetic-but-endearing nebbish who might actually have a chance of working out his problems by the end of the film.
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It begins outside the United States, with an unkind ferment of older stereotypes: the non-Christian other, the money-lending Shylock, the petty bourgeois European nebbish.
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And Stanfield ably carries the cast — Cassius Green's transformation from nebbish nerd to Always-Be-Closin' salesman is as delightful to watch as it is funny to see.
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The achievement of his early movies, culminating in "Annie Hall" (his seventh feature as a director) was to turn a scrawny, bookish, self-conscious nebbish into a player.
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Casey, a skinny, nervous nebbish — played, it may be redundant to add, by Jesse Eisenberg — lives alone with his dachshund in a nondescript apartment in an unidentified city.
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Casey, a skinny, nervous nebbish — played, it may be redundant to add, by Jesse Eisenberg — lives alone with his dachshund in a nondescript apartment in an unidentified city.
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He adored how little Yontif cared about appearances, this fat, fiery Rutgers-graduated nebbish in a cargo shirt who would probably have been forced to hang himself at Princeton.
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Her self-mocking nebbish is a familiar persona, but there comes a moment when she drops and deconstructs it, and that turning point makes you re-evaluate everything you saw before.
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It follows the nebbish Gus (Paul Rust) and the impulsive, beautiful Mickey (Gillian Jacobs), who begin dating and quickly realize the other is far more damaged and complex than their caricature would suggest.
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But writer and narrator should not be confused; although both are black, gay Americans in Berlin, Jed is a confused nebbish, "in West Berlin to make stupid decisions," which I doubt Darryl ever was.
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As recently as last season, the Hawks were a symphony conducted by a nebbish secret genius or, for those less inclined toward metaphor, a really good basketball team playing fun, fast, free-flowing hoops.
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When he's not making bad puns and being the "last true rock star" or whatever, Marilyn Manson is happy to now play roles that only a nebbish Jewish dude with a waning chin can pull off.
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Mr Israel says he is leaving to write novels—he earned acclaim for his first book, "The Global War on Morris", a satire in which Morris Feldstein, a timid Long Island nebbish, is mistaken for a terrorist.
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What keeps us watching is how Platt plays Evan's greed for popularity: with his unctuousness, his dishonesty, and his wounds, Evan is like an entitled nebbish, slightly oily around the edges, which isn't the same thing as vulnerability.
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The media and the politicians pounced on the way that Valupro had hiked up prices on some life-saving diuretic or whatnot, and the next thing Barry knew his fiery nebbish friend had checked into rehab with a fifteen-million-dollar severance package.
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The real creators of vision and code, however, are the nebbish Gordon Clark (Scoot McNairy), his long-suffering wife Donna Clark (Kerry Bishé), and Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis), the punk prodigy who can see into the future of machines like an modern-day oracle.
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In seeing himself in these terms, Trump recalls Walter Mitty, the nebbish lead character of James Thurber's classic 1942 story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," who keeps escaping from the everyday drudgeries by imagining himself as a brain surgeon, wartime pilot, and other heroic pursuits.
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Or it's some chattering, pleasant nebbish taking you through his meticulous basement reliquary of Red Sox memento mori, the ball that Scott Cooper threw him during batting practice, a splinter of Rich Gedman's broken bat, Mike Greenwell's rookie card sneering out of an unnecessary lucite sleeve.
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Created by Marti Noxon, based on the thriller novel by Sarai Walker, "Dietland" finds its misfit antihero figure in a furious fat girl, Plum Kettle (Joy Nash), a self-loathing nebbish who ghostwrites the editor's letter for a cruel fashionista (Julianna Margulies, her eyebrows set on "evil").
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Mr. Simon's adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman's short story "A Change of Plan" teamed him with the comedian-turned-filmmaker Elaine May, who directed this critically acclaimed comedy about a dissatisfied nebbish (Charles Grodin) who abandons his new bride (Jeannie Berlin), while on their honeymoon, to pursue the elusive girl of his dreams (Cybill Shepherd).
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Even putting aside the question of molestation, perhaps the most striking thing about the piece is that it unintentionally reveals Woody Allen's image of himself as a benevolent patriarch -- a carefully-constructed façade of "neurotic nebbish" deployed to cover up what reads very much like a manipulative power to simply do whatever he wants.
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So it is that much is made of the (numerous) drunken gatherings that bring together the stock nebbish (him) and the romance-scarred, wannabe mum (her), the performers playing not just the authors but the denizens of the class-conscious social whirlwind that the pair inhabit: Cue funny voices at the expense, mostly, of the posh.
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On television, being Jewish has often been used as a self-deprecating punchline — see Larry David buying fraudulent High Holiday tickets off a scalper and being accused of being a self-hating Jew for listening to Wagner on Curb Your Enthusiasm — or it's downplayed altogether (think of Jerry Seinfeld's fascination with dating "shiksas" on Seinfeld or Ross's neutered, nebbish character on Friends).
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Appreciations A cautious confession about Gene Wilder, whose death on Monday made for a truly melancholy start to the week, but also led to many moments of grateful YouTube reminiscing: While I loved his work, the roles and scenes for which he may be most fondly remembered — as the screaming nebbish, the collapsing neurotic, the raging madman — never did it for me.
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Among the highlights: "Portrait of Borges" (1968), a labyrinthine march of synonyms inked on graph paper; "Contempt" (2005), a campy bricolage of invective; and "The Joys of Yiddish" (2013), a 345-foot-long ribbon of nonsense ("Kibbitzer, kvetcher, nudnick, nebbish, nudz, meshugener…") hugging the cornices of the Haus der Kunst, Munich, site of Adolph Hitler's infamous "Degenerate Art" exhibition in 1937.
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Rather, Darlene and her core crew — the nebbish Mobley, who's ready to run; the more cautious Trenton, who has her Iranian immigrant family to consider; and Darlene's ex-boyfriend Cisco, their link to the fearsome Dark Army — record and broadcast a conference call about the F.B.I.'s "Operation Berenstain," which is warrantlessly monitoring the communications of millions of Americans to hunt for the hack's perpetrators.
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The exhibition, "New York's Yiddish Theater: From the Bowery to Broadway," includes treasures like Miss Streisand's gray and lavender gown from "Funny Girl," the 000 musical about the Jewish vaudevillian Fanny Brice; Zero Mostel's rumpled Tevye outfit from "Fiddler on the Roof" the same year; and a photograph of a young Frank Sinatra smiling at a poster of Menashe Skulnik, who styled himself as the quintessential nebbish.
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The Christian imagery in the Reeve films has provoked comment on the Jewish origin of Superman. Rabbi Simcha Weinstein's book Up, Up and Oy Vey: How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero, says that Superman is both a pillar of society and one whose cape conceals a "nebbish", saying "He's a bumbling, nebbish Jewish stereotype. He's Woody Allen." Ironically, it is also in the Reeve films that Clark Kent's persona has the greatest resemblance to Woody Allen, though his conscious model was Cary Grant's character in Bringing Up Baby.
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" The introduction to the original pre-Kablam shorts uses a modified version: "Dey nervous, dey nebbish, dey small, and the Populars don't like 'em at all. But dat's okay, dey don't call it quits. Dey cool. Dey Misfits.
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Ryszard Lubicz Ryszard Lubicz, also known as Rysio from Clan (Rysio z Klanu) is a fictional character from Polish television series Klan (Clan). He has been portrayed since the show's beginning in 1997 by actor Piotr Cyrwus. Often mocked in Polish internet because of his nebbish personality.
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" The Valentine's Day special uses a new version of the theme song specifically for the special: "Dey nervous, dey nebbish, dey small, and the Populars don't like 'em at all. It don't matter, dey hip. Dey got their own friendship. But when love is in the air.
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In 1980, the Irving Nebbish mascot was replaced with the belligerent Obnoxio the Clown, who made his first appearance in issue #63 (June 1980), the first regular issue edited by Larry Hama, who had also edited issue #61 (April 1980). Crazy Magazines last issue was #94 (April 1983).
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In the comic strip they engaged in dialogue in balloons in the standard comic strip format. Gardner first began drawing these characters while he was a student at Antioch College. As an English word from Yiddish, "nebbish" means an insignificant, pitiful person; a nonentity (from Yiddish interjection nebekh "poor thing!", and from Czech nebohý).
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Marvel Comics (then known as Atlas Comics) first published a Crazy comic book in 1953. It ran for seven issues, through mid-1954, and was focused on popular culture parodies and humor.1953 Crazy listing at the GCD The second comic title, as Crazy!, ran for three issues in 1973, and reprinted comics parodies from Marvel's late-1960s Not Brand Echh.1973 Crazy listing at the GCD Later that year, Marvel repurposed the title for a black-and-white comics magazine. Marv Wolfman edited the first ten issues from 1973–1975 and the first Super Special, and created the magazine's first mascot, a short, bug-eyed man in a large black hat and draped in a black cape. Initially unnamed, the mascot was dubbed "The Nebbish" in issue #9 (Feb. 1975) and later "Irving Nebbish".
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He was selected for the Australian Composers Orchestral Forum twice, and has been a Composer Affiliate of The Queensland Orchestra. In 1997, he won the DIGF composition prize for his guitar piece "Nebbish". He was a finalist in the APRA Music Awards in 2011, in a jazz category. In 2006 and 2008, Wren travelled to India to learn about Carnatic music.
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"All my films are about commitment", said Kaufman later. "Somehow. The moral was, love is better with a monster who'll make a commitment than with a nebbish who won't. " Rush says Kolb later did some work on the script. "It was risky material because the war was still going on and students were at the barricades and Hollywood movies weren’t really addressing this stuff yet head- on", Rush says.
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Decker in 2009. Decker made a guest appearance on NBC's Chuck, where she played a model applying to be a "Buy More Girl." She made a guest appearance on USA Network's Royal Pains on July 30, 2009. Decker played swimsuit model Rachel, while Peter Jacobson played Alan, her nebbish husband. On February 8, 2010, David Letterman announced on Late Show with David Letterman that Decker had been chosen as the 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit covermodel.
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Reviews were positive. James Poniewozik of Time thought that "Because You Left" provided a good balance of characterization and mythology and commended the character of Faraday, partially "because a perfectly-cast Jeremy Davies has turned him into a likeable, flawed, brusque, slightly-in-over-his-head nebbish-god."Poniewozik, James, (January 21, 2009) "Lostwatch: You Can't Make a Record If, You Can't Make a Record If, You Can't…", Time. Retrieved on February 8, 2009.
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Cyril Figgis (Chris Parnell) is the comptroller of ISIS. Cyril is portrayed as quite competent at his job but is plagued by a number of personal issues. He was Lana Kane's love interest at the beginning of Season 1, but due to residual trust issues from her relationship with Archer, she refused to call Cyril her boyfriend or say she loved him. Cyril is a buttoned-down nebbish who has brown, graying hair and brown eyes.
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Felix Sherman (Segal), a nebbish book clerk and aspiring novelist, struggles to maintain peace and quiet in his walk-up New York City apartment. When he reports to his landlord that his brass, uneducated neighbor Doris (Streisand) is working as a prostitute, she is suddenly evicted. She then confronts him about this immediately, in the middle of the night. Felix, who hadn't intended that she actually be evicted, reluctantly agrees to let her stay at his apartment on a temporary basis.
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Some games pit elderly people against each other armed with padded clubs, but others are more deadly. There are two main protagonists. One is Norvell Bligh, a nebbish designer of game spectacles for a second-rank corporation who is thrown out of his job and his GML home, a victim of office politics. His gold-digger wife, instead of leaving him, returns with him to her roots in the slum, kicking her daughter out to join a gang and bring in some money.
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He nearly always vocalised consonants [r] and [l], pronouncing them as [w] instead (a trait that also characterized Tweety Bird) when he would talk in his slightly raspy voice. This trait was prevalent in the Elmer's Candid Camera and Elmer's Pet Rabbit cartoons, where the writers would give him exaggerated lines such as, "My, that weawwy was a dewicious weg of wamb." to further exaggerate his qualities as a harmless nebbish. That characteristic seemed to fit his somewhat timid and childlike persona. And it worked.
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Hexed is a 1993 American black comedy film starring Arye Gross, Claudia Christian, Adrienne Shelly, and R. Lee Ermey, and written and directed by Alan Spencer, best known as the creator of the satirical TV series Sledge Hammer! The film centers on a nebbish clerk who is seduced by a supermodel, unaware that she is a psychotic murderess. The film was shot in Dallas and Fort Worth. Director and writer Alan Spencer expressed disappointment he was not given full creative control and was forced to film the movie on a tight schedule.
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John Person (his stage name) is an out-of-work actor living in Los Angeles, with credit card debt of almost $28,000. Across the hall from him lives his friend, Grace. One night, his nebbish neighbor Neely, who wears a neck brace, invades his apartment with an unusual request: deliver a large blue suitcase to the truck stop of Baker, California, where it will be picked up by a man named "Cowboy", for which he will be given $25,000. John is also given a gun to defend against anyone taking the case.
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Strathairn created the role of Edwin Booth with Maryann Plunkett in a workshop production of Booth! A House Divided, by W. Stuart McDowell, at The Players in New York.History of the Bristol Riverside Theatre Strathairn's television work also includes a wide range of roles: Moss, the bookselling nebbish on the critically acclaimed The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd; Captain Keller, the father of Helen Keller in the 2000 remake of The Miracle Worker; Capt. Frederick Benteen, a U.S. 7th Cavalry officer under General Custer's command in Son of the Morning Star; and a far- out (both figuratively and literally) televangelist in Paradise, the pilot episode for a TV series on Showtime that was not successful.
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Poppers focused on Billy, a West Hollywood muscleboy, and his sidekick Yves (based on Mills), a big-hearted nebbish who offered good advice and caution (usually unheeded) for his glamorous friend. Yves always went along for the ride with Billy, commenting on the action, a function he took over from a witty crab louse that lived on Billy's pubic hair in the first few strips. When Mills moved to the classifieds department of Advocate Men, Poppers also moved to Advocate Men and was published sporadically. By the beginning of the 1990s Mills' health was deteriorating, as he developed complications associated with HIV infection, and in his final few years he worked less and less.
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The story begins in New York City with the traditional Jewish wedding of emotionally shallow, self- absorbed, "nebbish"-man-boy Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin), a sporting goods salesman, to Lila (Jeannie Berlin, daughter of director Elaine May), an annoyingly unsophisticated and emotionally needy girl. While on their honeymoon in Miami Beach, Lenny meets and pursues the beautiful but manipulative Kelly Corcoran (Cybill Shepherd), a Midwestern college girl on holiday with her parents. When Lila is severely sunburned, Lenny quarantines her to their hotel room as he engages in a series of rendezvous with Kelly, lying to Lila about his whereabouts. Lenny impulsively ends their ephemeral marriage to pursue an indifferent Kelly, his ideal woman and ultimate fantasy shiksa-goddess.
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In modern-day Switzerland, Norman (Tom McCamus) is a nebbish Canadian junior scientist working at a local nuclear power plant which his life takes a whole turn when an attractive Canadian model named Erica (Lori Paton) and her Italian photographer boyfriend Umberto (Jacques Lussier) persuade him to allow them access to the plant for a photo shoot. The next day, the three central characters are literally zapped back in time by a freak accident at the nuclear power plant in which none of them was an active participant. The three of them find themselves in an open field in the distant past at the exact spot where the nuclear power plant from the 20th century was. Their presence was not known to the scientists nearby, and time-travel was not the intent of the experiment at the nuclear facility.
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Brodie's quiet personality, coupled with his passion for serious film-makers and documentary directors, set him apart from most of the squad, who saw him as something of a nebbish. A humorous running storyline throughout season five saw Brodie kicked out of his apartment and being shipped from one detective's house to the next, upsetting each one in turn: John Munch was horrified to learn that Brodie had looked in his medicine cabinet (it is implied that he stored cannabis in there), Tim Bayliss objected to Brodie's highbrow taste in television and Meldrick Lewis was annoyed when Brodie instigated an argument with his wife. Brodie eventually ended up sleeping in the squad's video room. Kay Howard found out and offered him a place at hers, but Brodie turned her down because of an intense crush he harbored on her.
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There he developed a monologue style (rather than traditional jokes), and the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. He released three comedy albums during the mid to late 1960s, even earning a Grammy Award nomination for his 1964 comedy album entitled simply, Woody Allen. In 2004 Comedy Central ranked Allen fourth on a list of the 100 greatest stand-up comedians, while a UK survey ranked Allen the third-greatest comedian. By the mid-1960s, Allen was writing and directing films, first specializing in slapstick comedies such as Take the Money and Run (1969), Bananas (1971), Sleeper (1973), and Love and Death (1975), before moving into dramatic material influenced by European art cinema during the late 1970s with Interiors (1978), Manhattan (1979) and Stardust Memories (1980), and alternating between comedies and dramas to the present.
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This uneasy onstage naturalness became a trademark." When he was finally noticed by the media, writers like The New York Timess Arthur Gelb described Allen's nebbish quality as "Chaplinesque" and "refreshing". Allen on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1964 Allen developed an anxious, nervous, and intellectual persona for his stand-up act, a successful move that secured regular gigs for him in nightclubs and on television. He brought innovation to the comedy monologue genre and his stand-up comedy is considered influential. Allen first appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on November 1, 1963, and over nine years his guest appearances included 17 in the host's chair. He subsequently released three LP albums of live nightclub recordings: the self-titled Woody Allen (1964), Volume 2 (1965), and The Third Woody Allen Album (1968), recorded at a fund-raiser for Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential run. In 1965 Allen filmed a half-hour standup special in Great Britain for Granada Television, titled The Woody Allen Show in the U.K. and Woody Allen: Standup Comic in the U.S.Benedictus, Leo (October 24, 2013). "Comedy Gold: The Woody Allen Show.
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