Oops… I forgot. Am I even allowed to write “Super Bowl”? Might get hit by the NFL for copyright infringement by not calling it the “big game” instead.
Well anyway, no matter who who’re rooting for tomorrow or even if you’re not a sports fan at all, here’s something we can all enjoy: Andy Griffith’s classic comedy monologue “What It Was, Was Football”, accompanied by George Woodbridge’s illustrations from MAD Magazine!
This is a “teaser” for Volkswagen’s commercial during this year’s Super Bowl. Yes, Super Bowl commercials now have teasers for them. And even so this is already the greatest Super Bowl commercial in the history of anything…
This evening Kristen and I were hanging out in one room of her apartment when we heard her cats Zoe and Wally meowing outside the door. I had an idea so I grabbed my iPad, turned on the camera and slid it partly outside under the door. The results? Hilarity!!
It was forty years ago today, on January 14th 1972, that Sanford and Son starring Redd Foxx and Demond Wilson, premiered. In the four decades since then Sanford and Son has come to be regarded as one of the funniest – and finest – television series ever.
You know you want it: here’s the classic opening titles, with that theme composed by Quincy Jones…
But why stop there? YouTube is hosting full episodes of Sanford and Son so if you’ve never seen the show before (you big dummy!) or you haven’t caught it in awhile, here ya go!
Special thanks to Chad Austin for alerting this blog to the day’s significance. And beans and diseases to him!...
Trying to move forward on some things, after the events of the past few weeks. Our family is still dealing with Mom’s passing, and all of the matters pertaining to that.
I’m gonna try to resume blogging in earnest during the next few days, ‘cuz a lot of y’all have been sending some really nice compliments and condolences, and apparently this lil’ site is a pleasurable pastime for more people than I had realized. That means more than I can possibly convey. So for sake of this site’s regular readers as much as my own, I need to get back into the swing of things.
I can share the news that my first real film project in quite a long time is in the very early stages right now. It’s something that Kristen and I had the idea for together so we’re writing it together! Lord willing we’ll start shooting ...
Since the Muppets have roared back in style, here’s this immortal rendition of them singing “The Twelve Days of Christmas” with John Denver!
I think that’s like thirty years old, but timeless as ever. I figured it would be good to depart from blogging for the time being with something we could all smile about.
Longtime readers know that there is a tradition on The Knight Shift but last year there was a break from it, for reasons which were beyond my control. I had been looking forward to continuing that tradition again this holiday season but with each passing hour, well…
I am going to take a break from blogging for the next several days, as has been my usual custom at this time of year. There might be a review of this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special (which if I get to watch it, will be in far ...
Y’know, the sad thing is: this sketch from Fox’s MAD TV is soooooo much better than the actual Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator: Salvation, combined!
I think this was first broadcast before Christmas 1998. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 Terminator is sent back in time to protect Jesus of Nazareth in… The Greatest Action Story Ever Told!
This was posted on the blog a number of years ago, minus an embeddable video. That’s since been fixed and hey, it is too good not to share once again!
It’s The Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special! Adapted from the eponymous one-shot special published in the early Nineties, DC Comics’ resident badass and intergalactic bounty hunter Lobo (one of Superman’s more colorful enemies) is hired by the Easter Bunny to kill Santa Claus. A bit of warning: there’s some pretty harsh language in this film… but it’s oh so very funny!
AMC has been doing multiple broadcasts of A Christmas Carol, the 1984 television movie adaptation with George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge, for the past few nights. It’s easily my favorite version of Charles Dickens’ timeless potboiler (no really, he only wrote it to sell and pay some bills) although Patrick Stewart’s one-man performance runs a very close second.
But have you ever wondered what happened after Scrooge changed his ways at the end of that story?
Well wonder no more! Back in 1985 there was a short-lived show called George Burns Comedy Week. It was a comedy anthology series hosted by Burns: sorta The Twilight Zone but all about the laughs. And just before that Christmas, Burns and company produced a follow-up to A Christmas Carol.
So without further ado, here is Roddy McDowall, Ed Begley Jr., Carolyn Seymour, Paul Benedict, and the one and only ...