Yesterday here, I linked to an excerpt from a lecture John Cleese gave a few years ago about creativity. Today, we have a link to the entirety of a lecture he gave on the topic some years earlier. We have Robert J. Elisberg to thank for this. Let me know if the subtitles say anything […]
He's been saying it was about to open for years now but he never had a theater and actual dates before! Jerry Lewis's oft-announced stage musical of The Nutty Professor opens July 24 at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center for a pre-Broadway tryout! See? Take a look! I'm half-tempted to go all the way to […]
David Javerbaum with the Quantum Theory of Mitt Romney. My own theory is a little simpler. It's that some time ago, Romney heard that the way to win votes is to tell the public what they want to hear. So he's on a relentless mission to make sure that at some point during the campaign, […]
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This article says that David Letterman and Craig Ferguson have signed new contracts to remain at CBS "through 2014." I'm not sure what that means in terms of actual expiration dates but I'll be surprised if both don't extend again after that. The piece sounds like a slightly-paraphrased CBS press release, noting that Dave is […]
Here's 10.5 minutes of John Cleese talking about creativity. I'd like to hear the whole of this speech, wouldn't you? […]
This is what happens when you write posts at three in the ayem… I said in the previous item that the only conventions I was doing the rest of the year were the Big Wow! Comic Fest in San Jose and the Comic-Con International in San Diego. I was wrong. In fact, I forgot about […]
I'm not on the website yet but I'll be a guest at the Big Wow! Comic Fest in San Jose, California. It takes place May 19-20 at the San Jose Convention Center and if this one's as good as the other ones, it'll be a great convention. (It's also the only other one I'm committed […]
This coming Saturday evening, our pal Scott Shaw! will be debuting his new Oddball Comics show at a comedy club up in Hollywood. If you've never seen him do this at conventions, you don't know what you've missed. Scott collects unusual comic books — the kind you look at, scratch some body part and wonder, […]
Fred Kaplan on Barack Obama's plan for dealing with missile defense. […]
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This year's Tony Awards telecast will be June 10. And Neil Patrick Harris will be back as host. […]
Mike Peters is the award-winning (Pulitzer and others) gent who draws the Mother Goose & Grimm newspaper strip along with many brilliant editorial cartoons. He's also one of the funniest, most charming people I've ever met…and I've met a lot of funny, charming people. Mike graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in '65 and […]
Dueling Banjos…Laurel and Hardy style. Thank you for the link, Jim Newman… […]
I awoke this morning and got myself fully awake in time to read an e-mail that the conference call has to be postponed because one of the other participants overslept. […]