So Wisconsin State Senator Tom Reynolds gets up at a town hall meeting in his state and vows that he will fight the appointment of a woman named Helene Nelson to a certain state office. Everyone present cheers. But then afterward, someone has to tell Reynolds that Helene Nelson was confirmed to the post last […]
Andy Ihnatko pulls an Emily Litella with regard to the "Fair and Balanced" weblog campaign. […]
I get about three e-mails a week asking me where one can see Garfield and Friends, a TV series I wrote for much of a decade. Some folks also want to know if and when the last 48 episodes, which have never been in syndication, will be in syndication. I don't know about that last […]
Jules Feiffer draws up a nice little comic strip recalling the 1965 blackout in New York. Here's the link. […]
I vaguely recall watching (and enjoying) Dotto, a game show that was on both CBS and NBC in 1958. It is now best remembered as the first quiz program to be outed for giving the contestants the answers in advance. This triggered a cascade of similar revelations about shows like Twenty-One and The 64 Thousand […]
Here's an example of something that annoys me about reporting these days. The headline on this story and many others in this morning's newspapers is "Poll shows Bustamante leading Schwarzenegger." The story then goes on to tell us that according to a Field Poll released on Friday, Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante holds a three-point lead […]
As a kid, I was a huge fan of Allan Sherman, song parody author extraordinaire. I collected all his albums and can still sing, from memory, almost all of his songs in a voice even worse than his. And of course he inspired me to start writing my own song parodies, which has led to […]
My pal Steve Rude has put together a sketchbook which, at the moment, I believe is only being sold via eBay. It will presumably be available elsewhere but there's no reason for you not to go to this link and buy one. Steve is one of the best comic artists around and one of the […]
Vince Waldron has been in touch with the producer of the forthcoming Dick Van Dyke Show DVD sets. He reports that the advertising is wrong: The second volume includes 33 episodes, not 31. One of those 33 is "All About Eavesdropping," which was filmed as part of the second season but aired in the third. […]
I have no idea what the name means, either. But it's the name of the new, R-rated Vegas show from the Cirque du Soleil people. Here's a Fair and Balanced sneak peek at this odd production. […]
Happy Fair and Balanced dreams! […]
Another interesting take on Mr. Schwarzenegger's candidacy. If nothing else, the fact that this thing is so utterly without precedent is spawning a wide range of viewpoints. And of course, all of them are Fair and Balanced. […]
Several folks (including Daniel Frank and Vince Waldron) point out that the final episode filmed for the second season ("All About Eavesdropping") wasn't aired until the following year. So that may go half the distance to explaining why the DVD release of Year Two of The Dick Van Dyke Show promises 31 episodes when there […]
The bastards at Comedy Central changed the link to the Tracey Ullman interview on me. Thanks to someone named Destiny, I've fixed it. (If you don't want to scroll down, here it is again.) Comedy Central is a great channel but I'm beginning to suspect they're not Fair and Balanced. […]
If you want to know all about great power failures, this website will tell you absolutely everything about them. And it's even Fair and Balanced. […]