Comedy in our daily lives

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on December 27th, 2004

We caught “Oceans Eleven” on cable. We weren’t so dazzled that we would seek out the sequel in the theaters. In the follow-up, the boys are all forced to lay low and get what one critic (Katie Meyers of Knight Ridder) calls “legitimage jobs”:

Another big change is Livingston Dell (Edward Jemison). In the first movie he was a giddy computer nerd who would sweat profusely whenever he got nervous. This time around his occupation is comedy; he is a standup comedian working in nightclubs … where did that come from?

Where indeed? Information on Jemison on the WWW is scant. Perhaps he has always entertained fantasies of being a comic. Could being a standup comic actually be considered “laying low?” In Vegas? Is it really necessary to read the rest here?