So instead of letting us get away with posting inferior copies of their crap on YouTube, the members of Monty Python (except for Graham Chapman ‘cuz, you know…) are putting superior copies of their crap on YouTube!
A review of a new movie that most people haven’t seen yet. A couple of book reviews. And an awesome contest… with some very neat prizes!
Keep an eye on this blog in the next few days for all kinds of kewl stuff.
In the meantime, Happy Thanksgiving!
EDIT 7:05 p.m. EST: And now for a true bit of Thanksgiving comedy. It’s the now-infamous “As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!” scene from the classic sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati…
A few days ago during a spacewalk at the International Space Station, astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper accidentally lost her bag of tools and it went floating away.
But don’t worry: Kevin Fetter of Brockville, Ontario found it last night! He was in his backyard with his satellite-observing gear, which was also armed with a good video camera. And Fetter not only spotted Stefanyshyn-Piper’s bag as it scooted past the star eta Pisces, he filmed it too…
Today marks an extraordinarily dubious anniversary for the Star Wars saga. Because it was thirty years ago tonight, on November 17th, 1978, that CBS aired the first and last broadcast of The Star Wars Holiday Special.
The two-hour schlockfest is now widely considered by many to be the absolutely worst block of television in the history of anything…
I’m not even going to try to pretend to make sense of this… thing. If you want to see it, you’ll be able to find it all over the ‘net and if you don’t want to see it well, that’s two hours of your life that’re your own to spend how you wish. I remember watching this as a way wee lad on the night that it aired, and even then I thought it was pretty terrible. I mean, Harvey Korman as ...
A Greek scholar has conclusively proven that the classic “Dead Parrot” sketch made famous by Monty Python’s John Cleese and Michael Palin actually goes back sixteen hundred years.
Hierocles and Philagrius were the original comedy duo who came up with the concept. Except in their version it wasn’t a dead bird, but a deceased slave. One man complains to a friend that the slave he bought from him died not long after purchase. The friend replies “When he was with me, he never did any such thing!”
Also among the 265 jokes found in the Philogelos: The Laugh Addict collection are some poking fun at marriage. One of them goes: “A man tells a well-known wit: ‘I had your wife, without paying a penny’. The husband replies: ‘It’s my duty as a husband to couple with such a monstrosity. What made you do it?'”...
Dear friend Jenna St.Hilaire (who was previously Jenna Olwin before her recent nuptials) spotted this video on YouTube and sent it this way. It’s a four-way split-screen of a dude who’s doing an a capella rendition of several John Williams movie scores, with a Star Wars-ish twist. It’s pretty amazing!
Look, I know that tomorrow is Election Day and many folks are feeling extremely anxious and even much worse. Personally, I’m sick of the whole damned thing. I’ve been an eager follower of politics all my life, but this is the first election ever that couldn’t be a more dreary dull bore. And on the eve of what I keep hearing is “the most important election in our country’s history” (except it’s really not) I’m now more thankful than ever that I don’t have a dog the McCain/Obama hunt (and I explained two days ago what I was doing regarding that).
So right now, I think most of us can agree: we need a good laugh.
I found this on YouTube not long ago and every time I watch it, it cracks me up hard! Someone took some clips of Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street and choreographed them to ...
My good friend and filmmaking collaborator “Weird” Ed Woody dons a V getup (as in V for Vendetta) and rocks hard on Halloween at a local Wal-Mart last night…
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“Weird Al” Yankovic is hard at work on his new album and he couldn’t wait to share the first single from it! “Whatever You Like”, a parody of T.I.’s hit song of the same name, is a spirited anthem (or is that a dirge?) for the current economy…
Speaking of Weird Al, this month’s Wired magazine has an excellent article about his career and how he’s still finding gobs of new fans!
And if you enjoyed “Whatever You Like”, you can own it for yourself (and give Al some hard-earned cash) by buying it through iTunes or Amazon.com or Rhapsody or Napster!...
popgive.com found this photo of some scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider (which began operation this morning and it’s yet to destroy the world), including one in the group that bears a very striking resemblance to Gordon Freeman, the protagonist of the Half-Life video game series.
Just an odd coincidence, I’m sure. But if that guy shows up in any more photos and wielding a crowbar, it might be a good idea to stock up on some rations and shotguns....