My former writing partner and forever friend Dennis Palumbo is writing a series of articles about writing for the journal, Psychiatric Times. Dennis is a wise human being especially about his part-time profession (he writes but he's also a licensed psychotherapist) and my full-time one. You might want to check out his first article in […]
…to my longtime pal — and one of the funniest comedians I've ever seen — Bill Kirchenbauer. At this moment, Bill's in a hospital in Thailand because some lady hit him with her car as he was walking down the street. It does not appear his injuries are lasting but we'll wish him a speedy […]
If you enjoyed the Caesar's Writers program, you will certainly enjoy a kind of semi-sequel that was done in the same place — the Writers Guild Theater — soon after with some of the same participants. This is a tribute to Larry Gelbart and in addition to Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Larry, there are […]
Norms is the name of a small chain of family restaurants in Southern California…and they just opened one in Las Vegas. They're friendly places that serve a lot of cheap food. You can get a half-pound New York Steak with six fried shrimp and it includes gumbo soup, a salad, your choice of potato and […]
Here's another documentary about comedy that is, as I post this, available to watch for free, sans advertising. Either the "free" part or the "free from ads" part could change at any time so don't dawdle if you want to see it. This is Wait For Your Laugh, a career retrospective of the great comedienne, […]
In 1979, Robert Klein and Lucie Arnaz starred in a musical called They're Playing Our Song — Book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager and music by Marvin Hamlisch. It opened on Broadway on February 11 of that year and closed (with a different cast) on September 6th of '81 after 1,082 performances. […]
I'm still very busy so I'm going to refer you to some other folks… I'm not writing political stuff these days because I'm not reading as much political stuff as I usually do because the political stuff I do see is running madly off in all directions. However, if I wrote a post about Joe […]
The great Broadway director-producer Hal Prince died in 2019. The last show he directed for Broadway was a retrospective of his work called Prince of Broadway featuring scenes from previous shows of his including Fiddler on the Roof, Company, Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd and many others. Despite a terrific cast and (of course) […]
So it's like a game on YouTube now. They upload full, uncut movies and specials (like the Caesar's Writers) video and they're free to view…and then suddenly, it costs money or they have ads…and then they're free again…and I'm sure they'll switch back. The last few days, Caesar's Writers went from without ads to with […]
One of my favorite a cappella groups, Voctave, performs one of the best songs from Wicked… […]
I am in receipt of quite a few messages from people who loved the Caesar's Writers video which I linked to here the other day. Some of them have questions like… Is that video the entire event? No. Some things were cut but not much. What happened to Danny Simon?If you look carefully, you might […]
Okay, I'm back…with another real great video link. One of the all-time great stand-up comedians, in my opinion, is Robert Klein. In fact, back when I was hanging around the Comedy Store and the Improv and places like that, you could see a lot of new comics trying to be George Carlin or Richard Pryor […]
I'm not really back yet but I wanted to put this video link up because they may take it down, begin charging for it or insert commercials any day. In 1996 at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, there was an event taped for TV called Caesar's Writers. Sid Caesar was there and so […]
It's another one of those days, folks. Nothing bad…just a lot of things that have to get done. […]