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Oct 1, 2021 · Woody Allen stand-up comedy appearance on The Steve Allen Show 11/15/63
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- Woody Allen
As a comedian, he developed the persona of an insecure, intellectual, fretful nebbish, which he maintains is quite different from his real-life personality. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen...
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In 1969, Allen hosted his first American special for CBS television, The Woody Allen Special, which included skits with Candice Bergen, a musical performance by the 5th Dimension, and an interview between Allen and Billy Graham.
While best known for his romantic comedies Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979), Woody has made many transitions in his films throughout the years, transitioning from his "early, funny ones" of Bananas (1971), Love and Death (1975) and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972); to his more storied and ...
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- Annie Hall (1977) Film. Comedy. Woody Allen famously wanted to call it Anhedonia, the clinical inability to experience happiness—funny for a film that gives us so much pleasure.
- Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Film. Comedy. The film in which Woody’s comic and serious sides most comfortably align, this one tells of two barely connected characters, an eye doctor (Martin Landau) and a filmmaker (Allen), each with intricately messy private lives.
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Film. Here are Allen’s most exquisite performances: nuanced, perfectly balanced, lovably neurotic. There’s not a weak link in the cast, and while it’s a shame to single out an essential performance, it has to be Dianne Wiest’s unsettled Holly, the kind of desperate, flailing Manhattanite that future director-writers would spin entire careers out of.—
- Manhattan (1979) Film. Comedy. Greatest opening in cinema history? Gordon Willis’s glittering monochrome camerawork combines with Gershwin’s glorious glissandos and Woody’s scalpel-sharp self-mockery to create the ultimate hymn to a city, a sensation, a whole way of life.
1. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) PG | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance. 7.7. Rate. 75 Metascore. In 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world. Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman. Votes: 55,232 | Gross: $10.63M. Watch on Prime Video. included with Prime. 2.
May 15, 2012 · He left TV to embark on a stand-up career in 1961, and by the mid-’60s, he was considered one of the best performing comics in the country. What the vodka ad bit shows is how he was able to cram ...
