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During a performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Cory Kahaney recalled being asked at a party what she did for a living. I said, I m a comedian, and they looked at me with shock and horror and they re like: Oh, that is the hardest job! I could never do that job. . And obviously, this person doesn t know I work an hour a night, including the commute, joked Kahaney of the length of a stand-up routine.
Obviously, comedy takes days and months and years to perfect. Kahaney, a past finalist on NBC s Last Comic Standing, is one of the rare stand-up performers who makes a living at her craft.
The âMichael Harrison Wrap:
An Overview of the National Conversationâ Marks its Second Anniversary with This Weekendâs Show.  The latest installment of the one-hour weekend special, âTheÂ
Michael Harrison Wrap,â that looks back each week at the hottest topics discussed in American talk media per the research ofÂ
TALKERSÂ magazine, is now posted. This new episode titled,Â
âSmokinâ a Joint Session,â looks back at this past week of April 26-30. The program features guests (in order of appearance):Â
Kevin Casey, executive editor,Â
TALKERSÂ magazine;Â
Westwood One;Â
WYD Media;Â
Dom Giordano, talk show host, WPHT, Philadelphia; andÂ
Victoria Jones, executive director,Â
Steven Yeun gave a Detroit suburb what doubtless is its first shout-out during a live Oscar broadcast on Sunday night.
Yeun didn t win best actor for his performance in Minari. In the biggest surprise of the night, the award went to Anthony Hopkins for The Father instead of the widely predicted winner, the late Chadwick Boseman for Ma Rainey s Black Bottom.
But Yeun did get to share an early movie memory from his southeast Michigan childhood.
While introducing the nominees for the visual effects award, he said, When I was 7 living in Taylor, Michigan, my mother took me to watch Terminator 2 at the theaters. I m pretty sure she didn t know what the movie was about. And to her and my surprise, we got to see some
Dearborn native Mike Mosallam, who wrote and directed Breaking Fast, says he wanted to avoid the familiar narrative of a gay Arab Muslim man or any gay man of any culture or faith who is not accepted by his family.
Instead, his lead character, Mo, is surrounded by supportive relatives, especially his hilariously outspoken mom, whose only concern is that he be happy.
In one scene, Mo finds out that she has posted on social media: “I have failed as a mother. My son eats alone every night.”
The movie unfolds during the holy month of Ramadan, during which Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset. Besides being a love story, it s also a movie about the mouthwatering dishes served at nightly iftars, the traditional meal eaten after sunset.