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  Esquire

  Ted Cruz Picked a Fight With Big Bird and Lost

  The United States Senator from Texas has a second gig as a Twitter troll. He is miserably bad at it.

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  The Telegraph

  Bill and Ted Face the Music, review: prepare to party on through gritted teeth

  Dir: Dean Parisot; Starring: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Samara Weaving, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Kristen Schaal, Anthony Carrigan, Holland Taylor. PG cert, 89 min The Bill & Ted films are nobody’s idea of serious cultural milestones, yet three decades ago they unquestionably captured something of the sunny inanity of the age. Released respectively in 1989 and 1991, the time-travelling duo’s Excellent Adventure and Bogus Journey today feel like relics of another era – one in which a premise that pos

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  The Independent

  Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure: The time-travelling sleeper hit that almost didn’t see the light of day

  No one really thought Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure would become a classic. The film’s fate is as sweetly improbable as that of its protagonists, a pair of good-natured metalheads who, by providence, save humanity with the simple philosophy: “Be excellent to each other and party on, dudes.” A modest film created on a modest budget, Bill & Ted faced near-annihilation when its distributor collapsed, only to emerge from the wreckage as 1989’s sleeper hit, complete with a $40m gross at the US box

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  Digital Spy

  Bill & Ted 3 writers will be paying tribute to late star George Carlin

  Actor played Rufus in original movie.

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  The Guardian

  Lenny Bruce is Out Again review – the sound of distilled provocation

  Lenny Bruce is Out Again review – the sound of distilled provocation. Audio downloadSixty years on, the taboo-busting comic can seem incoherent and insensitive but there’s no doubting his masterful wordplay

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  The Guardian

  Eddie Murphy shows you can evolve, apologise – and still be funny

  The power of an apology ... Eddie Murphy. Photograph: Action Press/REX/ShutterstockComedy is dying and political correctness is killing it. Nobody can joke about anything any more without triggered liberals screaming “racism” and “cancelling” them.I’ll stop there because I’m sure you have heard this screed before. Conservatives love complaining about how millennial snowflakes can’t take a joke and don’t understand “edgy” humour. In September, for example, the comedian Shane Gillis was dropped fr

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  The Telegraph

  France’s top stand-up comics outed for plagiarising US counterparts

  The French comedy circuit is in crisis after a mystery online whistleblower shamed some of the country's best-know stand-ups to admit they had stolen their jokes from their British and American counterparts.

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  Yahoo Movies UK

  Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter confirm 'Bill & Ted 3' will start filming this year

  The Wyld Stallyns are officially getting the band back together.

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  Evening Standard

  If you thought liberalism was in crisis, Brazil gets the Trump of the tropics

  When fascism comes to America,” said US stand-up comedian George Carlin, “it will not be in brown and black shirts. In spite of Bolsonaro’s assurances he will govern for all Brazilians, many of them are already anxious — with good reason — about the character of the destiny he has in mind. After he voted, Brazilian supreme court justice José Dias Toffoli pointedly quoted sections of the nation’s constitution to reporters, emphasising “the future president must respect institutions, must respec

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  The Independent

  A Life in Focus: George Carlin, American standup comedian who always said a word out of place

  The legendary standup comedian and advocate of freedom of speech died in 2008. The introduction to the appreciation that appeared in the pages of the newspaper that year, under the title “Seven Years that Shook a Nation”, said: “America in the 1970s wasn’t ready for George Carlin: his mediation on the morality of swearing led to arrest, prosecution and even a Supreme Court judgment.” The article is reproduced in full below. George Carlin, the standup comedian who made legal history by uttering

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