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CollegeHumor.com in the NYer

20 January 2005

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Friend Mollie Wilson pointed me to a Talk of the Town mini-profile of the guys behind the website CollegeHumor.com, or as I like to call it, www.what-I’d-be-doing-if-I’d-been-born-ten-years-later.com. Though it’s marred by a slightly snarky tone, any article that mentions The Yale Record can’t be all bad. Speaking of funny films on the outer edge of [...]

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Cleese and Hunter Thompson on Bush

25 October 2004

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My dad–who is, by the way, the Republican Party’s worst nightmare, a solid Democrat in a high tax bracket–sent me an email this morning. In it was the following, John Cleese on the Bush Administration: “How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb? None. There’s nothing wrong with that light bulb. [...]

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I meant to go to bed, but instead…

18 October 2004

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…started reading this nicely done comedy blog. By the way, the blog’s title comes from a famous EB White quote about the impossibility of analyzing humor. The quote’s horseshit–anybody who’s ever had to think of something funny when they didn’t much feel like it has analyzed humor successfully–but it comforts civilians and others who require [...]

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Dennis Miller is a thug…

18 March 2004

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Strong words, I know, but after seeing him insulting and dismissing lefty critic Eric Alterman on his show, I feel the verdict is in. Here’s a summary: Alterman says the Bush Administration doesn’t have any regard for the truth, only political expedience. Miller doesn’t argue this point, but makes fun of Alterman’s supposedly laconic manner. [...]

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Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse

15 January 2004

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Kate got me the complete Jeeves and Wooster on DVD for Christmas, and we’ve been chomping through them at a steady clip. Both Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as Jeeves are pitch-perfect. Meanwhile, Ed Page pointed me to a nice appreciation of PGW by Fry in the Independent. Have you read any [...]

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Buy this book!

30 October 2003

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My friend Dave Hanson has a new comic novel out, Last Leg. Both Dave and the novel are quite funny; in addition to introducing the concept of a Snugli for cats (always remembered that) the man can gin himself up to heights of literary skeeve that few mortals reach, eg, “veins full of bum vomit.” [...]

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Woody to Tell All?

8 October 2003

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The New York Post’s Page Six gossip column reports that Woody Allen is shopping a book proposal, in which he plans to dish the dirt on his romantic life. Please, God, make it funny. Please protect Woody from his love of SJ Perelman, and please remove any overtly sexual details, because I don’t want to [...]

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A Talk with Mort Sahl

25 August 2003

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Just read an interview with satirist Mort Sahl, still pissed off at age 76. He’s always been right on the beam about the Kennedy assassination, the canary in the coal mine; I’m not talking specifics, I’m talking about knowing that something was fishy and politicized and “spun.” And it wasn’t simply JFK-worship, either: He got [...]

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FOX Vs. Franken Thrown Out of Court…

23 August 2003

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FOX’s suit versus Al Franken’s new book got exactly the treatment it deserved today. One hopes that it was expensive enough a lesson in First Amendment law that FOX will stop filing frivolous lawsuits against obviously satirical products.

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If you watched Warner Bros. cartoons as a kid…

14 July 2003

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…then you’ll love this catalog of products from ACME. Many’s the time when I could’ve used an ACME product or two. “Be popular! Be a rock!” With the ACME Artificial Rock, of course.

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