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≡ Category: Comedy, Film, Random | ≅ 3 Comments
It’s part of the beauty of Werner Herzog. His films engross us, and the director provides the entertainment on the side. You have seen him take a bullet during an interview in LA. You’ve heard him read “Go the F**k to Sleep” in New York City. And, of course, you’ve watched him eat his shoe (literally!) [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
Last summer, actor Jim Meskimen produced a viral video where he impersonated 25 famous figures reciting Clarence’s monologue from Shakespeare’s great history play, Richard III. Woody Allen, Jack Nicholson, Jimmy Stewart – they all made an appearance. Now, Meskimen returns with a new cast of characters, and this time he’s reading lines from Marc Antony’s famous speech in Julius Caesar. If [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Politics | ≅ 4 Comments
In Fox’s world, nothing good is terribly safe. Even the lovable Muppets fall under withering attack. Last month, Fox Business spent seven minutes (below) unraveling the left wing conspiracy in the latest Muppet movie. Then the Muppets, not taking things lying down, struck back. Appearing at a press conference in London last week, Kermit the [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Current Affairs, Politics | ≅ Leave a Comment
When the Supreme Court, in its infinite wisdom, decided that corporations enjoy the free speech rights of individuals, it took a bad campaign finance system and made it worse. Suddenly, free-spending PACs, representing powerful business interests, could flood our campaign finance system with unprecedented amounts of money and distort the way we elect leaders in [...]
≡ Category: Books, Comedy, Film | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here we go again. We’re getting meta with readings by the great Christopher Walken. It all starts with the actor appearing on a 1993 broadcast of the British TV series “Saturday Zoo” hosted by Jonathan Ross, and he’s reading and riffing on the beloved fairy tale, The Story of the Three Little Pigs. The potentially terrifying [...]
≡ Category: Animation, Art, Comedy | ≅ 1 Comment
In 1968, Terry Gilliam was a young American cartoonist living in London. He was having trouble making a living from magazine work, so his friend John Cleese suggested he get in touch with Humphrey Barclay, who was producing a slightly subversive television show for children called Do Not Adjust Your Set. Subtitled “The Fairly Pointless [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Literature | ≅ Leave a Comment
Another chestnut — fake Werner Herzog reading from ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas. This isn’t the story as you know it. No, this version is dark, packed with bleak social commentary and some witty literary criticism, and shatters all illusions. Ideally this clip should be watched with faux Werner Herzog reading other children’s classics: Curious George, [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Life, Psychology | ≅ 2 Comments
During the 1960s, George Carlin had something of an epiphany. Confronted by the counterculture, the young comedian realized that he wasn’t staying true to himself — that he was trying to be Danny Kaye, a very mainstream star, when he was really an outlaw and a rebel at heart. (Watch him on The Tonight Show [...]
≡ Category: Astronomy, Comedy, Physics, Video - Science | ≅ 1 Comment
With a fast-moving mixture of comedy and seriousness, an interview on The Colbert Report is something of an improvisational flying trapeze act. “Stephen Colbert is an amazingly good interviewer,” writes physicist Sean Carroll, “managing to mix topical jokes and his usual schtick with some really good questions, and more than a bit of real background knowledge.” Beneath [...]
≡ Category: Comedy, Music, Television | ≅ Leave a Comment
Here’s a time capsule from a parallel universe: Tom Waits in 1977, performing “The Piano Has Been Drinking” on Fernwood Tonight (otherwise called Fernwood 2Night). The short-lived TV series, set in a fictional Fernwood, Ohio, was created by Norman Lear as a spin-off of the mock soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Martin Mull played Barth Gimble, [...]
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