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When comic actors turn serious, there’s a monetary vacuum in the room; we’re not sure how to react, because we’ve been preconditioned to expect a punchline.

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That’s just one of the jokes Filipino-American stand-up comedian Tim Tayag laid on the audience at the Comfort Room (formerly Monk’s Dream) at Jupiter Place on Jupiter Street in Makati, where Tayag had gigs every Saturday night in May with the rest of the Comfort Room comedy revue.
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ANDY KAUFMAN
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[DatePublished] => 2015-01-21 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => For Men [SectionUrl] => for-men [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/lifestyle/for-men/20150121/steve-almighty-2.jpg ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 267215 [Title] => Are you being served? [Summary] => I don’t remember much about being an infant. Although I can safely surmise that I thought I was the bomb. I would cry and surely a spoonful of Cerelac was on its way to my mouth to shut me up. I smiled and surely as giddy adults normally do they laughed back at me like I was the incarnation of Andy Kaufman. Every little thing I did was considered a Kodak moment, at least to my folks. Then something happened. Suddenly the world stopped being my oyster. Suddenly I realized I was not the center of the universe but a mere speck, statistic, another mouth to feed.
[DatePublished] => 2004-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133192 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804717 [AuthorName] => Celine Lopez [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231339 [Title] => Fast times [Summary] => Amonth ago, I wrote an article listing the six horror films one should see for Halloween, putting in one Philippine entry: a classic monster flick called Zuma. A few days later, while in conversation with my best friend’s girlfriend — a pretty lass of 19 currently studying at the Ateneo, the topic came up and I was surprised — no, that’s not quite right… I was shocked when her eyes glazed over with no recognition whatsoever at the mention of Jim Fernandez’s fabled creature’s name. [DatePublished] => 2003-12-12 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135989 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1308998 [AuthorName] => Erwin T. Romulo [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 209359 [Title] => Tim Tayag isn’t so tiny [Summary] => "Tayag, bayag. Tayag, bayag."

That’s just one of the jokes Filipino-American stand-up comedian Tim Tayag laid on the audience at the Comfort Room (formerly Monk’s Dream) at Jupiter Place on Jupiter Street in Makati, where Tayag had gigs every Saturday night in May with the rest of the Comfort Room comedy revue.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-08 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Starweek Magazine [SectionUrl] => starweek-magazine [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 97546 [Title] => R.E.M.’s Reveal: Of air and open spaces - SOUNDS FAMILIAR by Baby Gil [Summary] => Singer and lyricist Michael Stipe was quoted as saying that the songs in R.E.M.’s Reveal take place in open spaces. "There is the impression of air and breath and flying away." And that is just the feeling one gets while listening to the new album. There is a sense of being lifted up, of leaving the mundane for something greater, inspiring, almost spiritual.
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