Posts Tagged with "Meyer"

George Meyer sketch from SNL: “Heaven Has All the Answers”

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

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George Meyer sketch from SNL: “Heaven Has All the Answers”

Pal Dennis Perrin forwarded me this wonderful sketch by George Meyer during his SNL days. It’s funny, and interesting too how there’s no response at all from the studio audience. Incoming search terms:heaven has all the answers skit

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Bit from Letterman (1982)

Friday, May 29, 2009

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Dennis Perrin forwarded me this great bit from the early days of Letterman. Dennis sez, “Starting at the 45 second mark, you’ll see Letterman writers Max Pross, Tom Gammill, George Meyer (in the Dallas Cowboys shirt, sporting an Amish beard), and then Andy Breckman, in the glasses and secular beard. And at 1:31, that’s head [...]

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Food Repair

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

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Dennis Perrin unearthed this great old George Meyer sketch (from “The New Show,” Lorne Michaels’ ill-fated 1984 followup to SNL). I’d never seen it, only read it–it was collected in Laughing Matters, a very nice collection of written humor and cartoons edited by Gene Shalit.

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Newsbreaks for Tuesday

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

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Audio version is here. Text:A new study is warning that planting trees in far Northern latitudes could actually worsen global warming. As a result of this report, Al Gore has announced he plans to make a sequel to “Inconvenient Truth” called “Let’s Pave Scandinavia.” An Ohio man wants the Governor of Florida to pardon rock [...]

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Newsbreaks for Wednesday

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

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Podcast now available! A Wisconsin man is recovering nicely one month after being so drunk he ran through a hotel window 16 stories above the ground. Joshua Hanson says he can’t remember the fall, or hitting the asphalt-covered awning that saved his life. The 29-year-old tavern owner isn’t planning on cutting back on the booze, [...]

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George Meyer, complicated human being

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

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As you may know, George Meyer is a television comedy writer here in Los Angeles. He is considered by many to be “first among equals” in that awesome team-effort called The Simpsons. Several years ago, Meyer’s college buddy David Owen wrote a glowing profile about him in The New Yorker. In this profile, Meyer was [...]

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The Gentlemanly Art of Log-Rolling

Tuesday, September 23, 2003

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Slowly but surely, friends of mine enter the blogosphere and other parts of the Web: Kate’s ex-Jellyvision colleague Jason Meyer has a lovely blog up and running called Five O’Clock Rock. And the humor site The Big Jewel has pieces by Michael Pershan and Mollie Wilson. Having talented and amusing friends is one of Life’s [...]

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