Here's something else to get that mind of yours off assaults on Free Speech by people who believe in the First Amendment but can always find exceptions when someone says something they don't like. This is a colorized version of The Our Gang Follies of 1938, which represents (I think) a high point in that […]
Take your mind off things your mind should not be on and watch eleven minutes of W.C. Fields, one of the great comedians of all time. I had the pleasure of briefly knowing a woman named Carlotta Monti who was Fields' companion and lover, and she said he was even funnier around the house than […]
I've seen a dozen online videos about the Colbert/Kimmel/Free Speech Suppression matter but you can find them yourself if you like. I'll post a video later that will be something silly to take your mind off this stuff. You can't have a sense of proper perspective on anything if you don't get your mind off […]
Here it is. Fucking brilliant… […]
We haven't had any Lewis Black on this blog for a long time. Here he is on last night's Daily Show — and I may be embedding another Daily Show clip soon… […]
So Brent McKee wants to know — and he wasn't the only person to ask this… Related to the video of Ricky Jay discussing poker with several of his friends, you mentioned that you had played a little poker in your younger days, but that "it never grabbed me the way it grabbed some people […]
…that Jon Stewart will be hosting The Daily Show tonight. Gosh, I wonder what he wants to talk about. […]
On May 30, 2024 in the matter of the National Rifle Association of America (Petitioner) v. Maria T. Vullo, it was Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Sonia Sotamayor who wrote to enforce a 9-0 vote of the Supreme Court. What she wrote included, in part… Six decades ago, this Court […]
So what's next? The Trump White House pulling strings to get Charlie Chaplin movies banned because they show poor people in a sympathetic light and Chaplin never mentions how Donald Trump is the greatest president ever and he won the 2020 election in a landslide? […]
This has been all over the Internet for years so you may have seen it. If you did, you might want to see it again… It's a half-hour of the late/great card wizard Ricky Jay discussing poker with five friends — Willie Garson, J.J. Johnston, John C. Reilly, Jeff Jones and Eddie Gorodetsky — and […]
I mentioned here the other day that when I went to see Dick Van Dyke in The Music Man at the Pantages Theater, the sound was kind of wonky. Some years later but still before they'd done a full upgrade, I took a lady to the Pantages to see Herschel Bernardi star in a touring […]
If like me, you didn't watch The Emmy Awards last night, you might enjoy this eleven-minute summary of wha' happened… […]
I wish cell phones had a setting you could turn on and off — and when it's on and you touch a button that places a call, it stops and asks "Are you sure?" and you have to hit a "Y" or some other key before it actually places the call. I always feel bad […]
On this blog, I often recommend that you go see my buddy Frank Ferrante doing his uncanny Groucho Marx tribute/impersonation. And I still recommend that when he performs it within attending distance of you. (November 19th, he'll be doing it in Minneapolis.) But Frank has other identities and other gigs. From now until at least […]
As usual, I didn't watch the Emmy Awards but I did peek in on a few YouTube clips. John Oliver won? What a surprise…almost as big as Stephen Colbert winning for Best Talk Show. And somewhere on the Internet right now, there are forums full of folks outraged because So-and-So was left out of the […]