{"id":22174,"date":"2002-03-22T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2002-03-22T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=22174"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:53:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:53:09","slug":"will-durst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/03\/22\/will-durst\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Modern-day Will Rogers&#039; performs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/03\/durst.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"241\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/03\/durst.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"durst\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will Durst, a political comedian likened to Mort Sahl, Hunter Thompson and Dick Gregory, performs at Bates College at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in Skelton Lounge, on the second floor of Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue. David Brusie, a musician and a senior at Bates, opens the performance, which is free and open to the public.<br \/>\n<!--more-->The Los Angeles Times once called Durst &#8220;a modern-day Will Rogers,&#8221; and as a matter of fact, Durst, just like that illustrious predecessor,\u00a0frequently claims that his best material comes straight from the newspapers. &#8220;All I do is edit,&#8221; Durst says, &#8220;and precious little of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Raised in Milwaukee, Durst has said that his heroes today are the same as when he was 12 years old: Thomas Jefferson and Bugs Bunny. He established himself as a comedian in San Francisco (where he also ran for mayor, finishing fourth in a field of 11.)<\/p>\n<p>The only comic ever invited to perform at Harvard&#8217;s Kennedy School of Government, Durst appears frequently in nightclubs and on television, including specials for HBO, Showtime and A&amp;E, and David Letterman&#8217;s and Jay Leno&#8217;s late-night programs. He is host and co-producer of PBS&#8217; awardwinning series <em>Livelyhood<\/em>, he offers regular commentary on public radio and he writes for print and the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Brusie, of Acton, Mass., opens the evening. Brusie describes his music as &#8220;a cross between pop, folk and traditional country, with some rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll thrown in for good measure.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Durst, a political comedian likened to Mort Sahl, Hunter Thompson and Dick Gregory, performs at Bates College at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in Skelton Lounge, on the second floor of Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue. David Brusie, a musician and a senior at Bates, opens the performance, which is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,39],"tags":[6889,9087],"class_list":["post-22174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22174"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91053,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22174\/revisions\/91053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}