Words To Live By
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” - Jack Handey, SNLFiled under:...
View ArticleArt Clokey, Creator of Gumby, Dead at 89…
clipped from www.artknowledgenews.com Animator Art Clokey, whose bendable creation Gumby became a pop culture phenomenon through decades of toys, revivals and satires, died Friday. He was 89. Clokey,...
View ArticleThe Dirty Two Weeks…
At 2 weeks until the election on November 2nd we are entering into the time of filthy tactics… and, as it seems, the filthiest of the tacticians are Republicans disguised as Tea Party people or...
View ArticleSunday Night Entertainent: Chicago Newscasters Screw Up…
I hope you like this… I got a kick out of it: Oh well… we all miss the big one at some point. Related Articles Are evening newscasts headed for shift? (sfgate.com) Is This The Worst Newscast Opening...
View ArticleActor Steve Landesberg Dies of Cancer..
Former standup comedian and veteran actor Steve Landesberg, perhaps best known for his role as an intellectual detective on 1970s police sitcom Barney Miller, has died at age 65. He had been suffering...
View ArticleErnie Kovacs Invented Television Comedy…
Ernie Kovacs Salon did a very nice article on the late Ernie Kovacs this morning because his widow, Edie Adams, has just released a complete set in DVD form of Kovacs’ kinescopes from the fifties and...
View ArticleI got to thinking about Bob & Ray after yesterday’s post about Ernie Kovacs…
Ray Goulding and Bob Elliot in 1955 Bob and Ray were to radio what Ernie Kovacs was to television (although the famous radio team, who met as announcers at Boston’s WHDH in 1946, also did television,...
View ArticleIn Case you missed the White House Correspondent’s Dinner last night…
Here’s the fun that Obama and Seth Meyers had with Donald Trump… I don’t think The Donald has much of a sense of humor… he certainly couldn’t take the kind of attacks that he hands out… there’s Obama’s...
View ArticleA few non-bin Laden related updates…
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” - Jack Handey, Saturday Night Live The...
View ArticleThe Mellow Moods sign… Bradley Sanders’ Best
I’ve been watching Bradley make this in his shop for some months now. Cutting and carving the names and decorations into the wood, working the copper for the centerpiece with the tree, forming and...
View ArticleComedy Writer and Saturday Night Live Alum Tom Davis has Died
From the L.A. Times: Franken & Davis on SNL Davis died Thursday at his home in Hudson, N.Y., his wife, Mimi Raleigh, told the Associated Press. He had throat and neck cancer. Classmates while...
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