I put up that video earlier of all the folks who'd been cast members on Saturday Night Live and I plumb forgot the point I was going to make: It would have been nice if they'd run something like that during the show. It was only two minutes. I also forgot to say that I […]
Hey, you remember earlier today, I showed you a photo taken by the guy fulfilling my Costco order? The one who told me they were all out of eggs? Well, when he delivered the order an hour or so later, it contained two dozen Kirkland Signature Free Range Large Eggs (USDA Grade A) for which […]
HBO has resumed releasing to YouTube each episode of — or at least the main story of — Last Week Tonight with John Oliver right when it debuts. Last year, they were delaying them for a few days but Mr. Oliver reportedly objected…so here it is. This is his first show back after a hiatus […]
I placed a delivery order this morning with Costco and my designated shopper just sent me this… If I understand this Bird Flu thing correctly, this would have happened no matter who we elected last November. If it had been Kamala Harris, Donald Trump would now be leading his supporters in blaming it wholly on […]
Here's another one of these. Every cast member from Saturday Night Live in two minutes… […]
Well, that was long. Some wonderful moments as well as others that remind me why I don't watch the entire show anymore…just the highlights on YouTube. It was nice to see certain folks back and even interacting with performers from different eras of the show. Then again, you could make a pretty long list of […]
In the rerun of the first Saturday Night Live last night — and linked here — I noticed two interesting things in the closing credits and today, my pal Shelly Goldstein reminded me of the significance of one of them. She reminded me that in the Saturday Night movie, one of the thousand-and-one plot lines […]
This blog used to track the fate of a stage musical called The Nutty Professor based on the 1963 movie starring Jerry Lewis. The musical was directed by Mr. Lewis and for several years, he kept announcing that it was going to open at this theater on Broadway or that theater not on Broadway and […]
Last night, NBC reran the first episode of Saturday Night Live, which was then called NBC's Saturday Night. It looks a bit cheap and Public Access these days but you see the potential there. I wrote about this first episode back here and other places of this blog. They've also made the episode available online […]
It's been a while since I video-linked something that I wrote but I wrote this a long, long time ago. It's an episode of CBS Storybreak, a series which adapted kids' books into half-hour cartoon shows. It was hosted by Bob (Captain Kangaroo) Keeshan as Bob Keeshan, not Captain Kangaroo. One of many things I […]
Recently here, we shared with you Richard Burton delivering an unusual performance of the title song from the musical, Camelot. Here is a more conventional — and seemingly sober — rendition which Richard Harris did on The Ed Sullivan Show for April 28, 1968. This was around a year after the release of the not-wonderful […]
Someone who signs himself "Johnny Enzyme" — and who I'm guessing is not really named "Johnny Enzyme" — came across some political cartoons by Jack Kirby, whose name at the time he did them was not "Jack Kirby," nor was it "Jack Curtiss," which is how he signed such work then. Mr. Enzyme asks… I […]
Jerry Eisenberg had a little merry band of cartooning friends from the early days of Hanna-Barbera. The Three Tooners were made up of Jerry, Willie Ito and Tony Benedict and they appeared at conventions and various functions…and on Stu's Show, the program run by my pal Stu Shostak. On July 25, 2018, Stu had them […]
A truly great cartoonist and a helluva nice guy died last night at the age of 87. Jerry Eisenberg had been sick for some time — the official cause of death was Pneumonia — and the news is already shaking up the animation community. Everyone knew him. Everyone adored him. Jerry was a second-generation great […]
The press is reporting that stores like Costco and Trader Joe's are putting limits on how many dozens of eggs one can purchase. That's what I'd do if I were them. And I don't know what Trader Joe's is charging but Costco seems to have not (not!) raised its prices because of the shortage. They […]