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 amusing, such as this one about a bum who cops a free meal through his...
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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.
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 video that emerged to promote Sacha Baron Cohen's new show "Who Is America?" where he...
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.
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.
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 achievements was working with Woody Allen to make him into the brilliant comedian and director...
Richard Pryor on police killing black people with choke holds.
John Hodgman, reading a anti-women's suffrage letter to the editor from 1914.