Browsing the archives for the comedy tag
Jew Vill Ski! Jew Vill Not Ski! Jew Vill Watch! I remember watching this when it first aired on HBO, back in the early 80′s. I was living in Bedford, NH and one funny night in 1983 (I looked it up) Buddy Hackett made me laugh my ass off. He joked about homosexuals, and nazis, [...]
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world. I didn’t know that, nor did I think Scots had a sense of humor in the usual sense. My idea of Scottish humor is more like this: A Scotsman walking through a field, sees a man drinking water from a pool with his [...]
Bo Burhnam Is Funny Kind Of A Dick I just watched Bo Burnham on Netflix. He is a funny, intelligent, almost Asberger-y, young comic. Henny Youngman meets the Rain Man. It’s good stuff. This is his Sonnet 155. It was shot on cameraphone in good old Portland, Oregon in 2009. The first 3 minutes are [...]
If you like this blog and haven’t watched Archer yet, prepare to be delighted. H Jon Benjamin doesn’t look like his voice, so we should hate him. He has one voice so the convenience store manager on Family Guy, and Bob, from Bob’s Burgers, all have the same voice. So we should hate him. I [...]
“I’m not a vampire! I’m a driving instructor from Johannesburg!” As a child of the 80′s, I grew up with MTV. At night, MTV would show the British comedy, The Young Ones, and it was good. Fucking hilarious, actually. This video, featuring the Damned (coolest band name ever!) and a vampire who was mailed to [...]
I have something wonderful, Youdopia! I have about nine minutes of perfectly written, and executed comedy. Mel Brooks ‘History of the World Part One is one of the funniest films ever made. I’ve written of it before. It is supernal in its excellence. Please enjoy this little fractal of perfection. Every time you hear the [...]
I miss Drawn Together. It made me laugh, often. I understand why it was canceled. Not everyone in America shares my dark, vile, racist, misogynist, heretical, irreverent tastes. It’s all good, Youdopia. It’s all good. Comedy Central has released (on 4/20, har dee har har) a Drawn Together movie, which I will legally purchase, at [...]
Much as I have done to her with Led Zeppelin, Kiki has done the same to me, only with Coldplay. After years of being innundated/saturated with Coldplay… I started to like them. Now I like them on my own, but I would probably never listen to them again without the influence of my beloved Kiki. [...]
This six minutes changed my life when it aired in 1985 (I think). I was a high school kid, just discovered Hunter Thompson, and Led Zeppelin. This is still hilarious. What got me back then, was the taboo aspect. The intensity, the misogyny, the heresy, the drug humor, and (underneath it all) the outrage. Licking [...]
