This is the grave of Henny Youngman. Born in 1906 in London, he and his family immigrated to New York when he was a child, living in Bay Ridge. He was evidently a real pain as a kid, getting kicked out of class all the...
comedy
Long before Laurel & Hardy were a famous comedy duo, Stan Laurel had quite the silent film career. He's not at the Chaplin/Keaton/Lloyd level, but his films can be quite.
This 1953 short is an absolutely outstanding satire of early television and the chaos it brought to households and neighborhoods. That's a first rate late film cameo! This was also.
This is the grave of Dudley Moore. Born in London in 1935 to a working class family, Moore had physical aliments from his birth, resulting in his short height, a bad leg, and kids making fun of him. But Moore took to music, starting as...
The first episode of the new show "Who Is America?" doesn't live up to the hype from the Earth-shaking NRA sketch. Blogmate Simon Balto brought your attention to the viral.
I've done a little (ok maybe not so little) vlogcast with Aryeh Cohen Wade over at Culturally Determined on Bloggingheads.tv based on my earlier post about When Its Okay To.
The difference between "good" Nazi humor and bad is about who gets to be the butt of the joke. "There can be no poetry after Auschwitz," said Theodor Adorno. One can only imagine what he might of said about laughter. Black humor, dark humor, gallows...
Big loss, although not unexpected. [SL]: Great tribute from Roy.
A few more Garry Shandling related links. One might forget how great the writing on The Larry Sanders Show was. So great. So hilarious. Thanks to Tom Till for the.
So as I am in DC, I managed to spend part of the evening in the company of truly evil people, i.e. Republican congressmen and staffers at a reception that someone suggest I attend, probably as a comedic social experiment. For many reasons I will...
The legendary producer of Woody Allen's 70s films and incredibly influential figure in the comedy of that era has died at the ripe old age of 100. Among his many.
Richard Pryor on police killing black people with choke holds.