Here is the complete list of what I'm doing at Comic-Con. Yes, I'm actually scheduled for all these things along with several business appointments and interviews. I'm having the guys who built the robot Walt Disney make one of me to handle some of these panels but I fear it won't be ready in time. […]
A whole lotta folks online are discussing the new animatronic Walt Disney and saying it doesn't look enough like him. As I said, I think he looks a little like Mike Lindell. This is not a huge deal but I'm curious about one aspect of this. Obviously, the Disney folks could have called in any […]
In 1962, an outta-work TV producer-writer named Allan Sherman recorded an album of song parodies for Warner Brothers Records and quickly went from being broke to being very rich and famous. Very few records have had the immediate success of My Son, The Folk Singer and very few of them were comedy records. Sadly, Mr. […]
On almost every show I worked on for Sid and Marty Krofft, the main guy in charge of design — of sets or costumes or both — was a lovely and talented gent named Jeremy Railton. No matter how little money there was in the budget or how little time there was on the schedule, […]
Amanda Marcotte on why, after all the Trump crimes and moral transgressions his base has excused or denied, they're in high dudgeon about this Epstein thing. I also think this conspiracy theory is different from many of the others because this one has an actual dead body attached. Of all the ones these same people […]
We've been talking here about short comedies made by Columbia Pictures in the thirties through the fifties. Here's a Three Stooges short from 1944, Crash Goes the Hash. This one features two of the Most Valuable Supporting Players in the Columbia stock company…Vernon Dent (playing Fuller Bull) and Bud Jamison (as Lord Flint). In fact, […]
I've been staring at the animatronic version of Walt Disney, thinking that he looks familiar but not because he looks like Walt. And it finally hit me who he reminds me of. He looks like Mike Lindell. […]
We're now getting a First Look at a new Disneyland attraction — "Walt Disney – A Magical Life." I'm sure the museum parts of the exhibit are wonderful but all anyone's going to talk about is the audio-animatronic figure of Mr. Disney. It took the tech guys a long time to build this and it […]
Folks in the political media are still arguing over how many Americans will lose their health insurance over the so-called Big, Beautiful Bill which is looking too big and not beautiful enough. National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett recently made some assertions which are debunked by Politifact and FactCheck.org. Donald Trump has always had this […]
Boop! The Musical played its final performance yesterday afternoon. You can see a cellphone video of the final bows over on this site. At least, this is the final performance of its debut stand on Broadway. Rumors abound that there's an afterlife ahead and one person involved with the production wrote me to say they're […]
I'm kinda fascinated by the output of the division of Columbia Pictures that made short two-reel comedies from 1933 to 1959. They starred a wide array of comedians, some of whom were on their way up and some who were on their way down. In the latter category were folks like Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon […]
Do you get the feeling Donald Trump is about to start deporting anyone who mentions Jeffrey Epstein? […]
John R. Troy has the following question… You've covered Li'l Abner, Al Capp, and a lot of Hanna-Barbera stuff over the years on your blog, but I've never seen this mentioned. As a kid, I remember a short lived series featuring The Shmoo from the Li'l Abner comic strip, called The New Shmoo, and after […]
And finally, here's my schedule for Sunday — two weeks from today! — at Comic-Con International in San Diego. If for some bizarre reason, you might want to attend a panel that doesn't involve me, the entire Sunday schedule you can be found here. And I should mention that what's left of the National Weather […]
Did you ever wonder what a Three Stooges short would be like without Moe or Larry? Probably not but if by some chance you did, here's a possible answer. This is the 1946 comedy short, Mr. Noisy. Its star, Shemp Howard, was making comedy shorts for the same studio — Columbia — with a lot […]