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Writer's Block: Children of the sun
Jan. 4th, 2011 11:57 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
I'd probably be like Woody Allen and ask the visitors all the wrong questions.
I'd probably be like Woody Allen and ask the visitors all the wrong questions.
For The Record...
Nov. 29th, 2010 06:16 amMy favorite Leslie Nielsen memory was his episode of the TV series Night Gallery, called "The Phantom of What Opera?"--which was basically a mash-up of The Phantom of the Opera and The Twilight Zone's "Eye of the Beholder"--both of which are turned upside down for laughs.
I don't know if he did comedy before then, but I think it was a turning point in his career.
I don't know if he did comedy before then, but I think it was a turning point in his career.
( New Meaning To Death Valley Days )
The mean spirit in me now wants to go and ask the Rednecks about their Immigration status. After all, Canada has Rednecks.
The mean spirit in me now wants to go and ask the Rednecks about their Immigration status. After all, Canada has Rednecks.
And Now For Something COMPLETELY Different
Jan. 5th, 2010 11:37 am( Ballet/Killer Cars/Atomic Mutation From Monty Python's Flying Circus )
My dad used to take in stray Killer Cars. He had like five or six of them, one at a time. But they weren't nice to him. They'd attack him in the driveway on Saturday morning and late that afternoon finally poop him out in a turd of road grime and axel grease.
My dad used to take in stray Killer Cars. He had like five or six of them, one at a time. But they weren't nice to him. They'd attack him in the driveway on Saturday morning and late that afternoon finally poop him out in a turd of road grime and axel grease.
In my dream overnight (and I know this will sound silly and trite and all) I was on my way somewhere and met Jerry Seinfeld. And the bizarre part is that he knew who I am without me or anybody else saying anything about me. "Oh yeah! Stephen Bierce. I was wondering when we'd get together." Our conversation was mainly about Walt Disney and denim hats.
I told you it would sound silly and trite.
Has this ever happened to you in your own subconscious mind? Somebody, who you know everybody in your world knows about, but you have no connection to, knowing YOU as if you'd been friends for a while?
I told you it would sound silly and trite.
Has this ever happened to you in your own subconscious mind? Somebody, who you know everybody in your world knows about, but you have no connection to, knowing YOU as if you'd been friends for a while?
Sempai Mike called last night. I asked him my question about what actor they'd cast in the role of Khan in Star Trek. He said Cheech Marin.
What a goofball.
I bet he thinks the same thing about me, though.
What a goofball.
I bet he thinks the same thing about me, though.
Writer's Block: Untimely Passing
Dec. 8th, 2008 11:36 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
Freddie Prinze senior. I was a fan of his sitcom Chico & The Man and only about ten years old. That was another Season of Funerals. I lost two of my grandparents and a great-aunt that year. I remember there were several child stars of the Sixties who died from drug overdoses around then too. The despair was very thick in those times.
Freddie Prinze senior. I was a fan of his sitcom Chico & The Man and only about ten years old. That was another Season of Funerals. I lost two of my grandparents and a great-aunt that year. I remember there were several child stars of the Sixties who died from drug overdoses around then too. The despair was very thick in those times.
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Writer's Block: Tina Fey
Oct. 30th, 2008 05:39 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I hear she herself dislikes the role. Why make an actress play a role she doesn't want to play? Or do you feel that something dramatic would be served by the love/hate relationship between audience and performer?
I hear she herself dislikes the role. Why make an actress play a role she doesn't want to play? Or do you feel that something dramatic would be served by the love/hate relationship between audience and performer?
Another Guy Named Steve
Oct. 22nd, 2008 05:59 pmSteve Martin Interview On NPR's Fresh Air.
It's peculiar that I liked him but wasn't all that big a fan when he was an A-List star. But hearing his story about how he suffered from panic attacks early on in his show biz career, and how he avoided using drugs because of that, that's something I can really relate to.
The punchline of the "blue spotlight sketch" had a life of its own...so much so that it's permanently stuck in the fabric of American culture. But I had never heard the actual sketch before, and it's included in this interview. If a punchline is made into a catch phrase, totally detached from its original context, it loses something. (Note that I am deliberately not quoting the words. Please, you need to actually hear the sketch.)
It's peculiar that I liked him but wasn't all that big a fan when he was an A-List star. But hearing his story about how he suffered from panic attacks early on in his show biz career, and how he avoided using drugs because of that, that's something I can really relate to.
The punchline of the "blue spotlight sketch" had a life of its own...so much so that it's permanently stuck in the fabric of American culture. But I had never heard the actual sketch before, and it's included in this interview. If a punchline is made into a catch phrase, totally detached from its original context, it loses something. (Note that I am deliberately not quoting the words. Please, you need to actually hear the sketch.)
Writer's Block: Comedians as Journalists
Oct. 17th, 2008 12:19 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I don't get cable. FAIL.
I don't get cable. FAIL.
Writer's Block: Lenny Bruce
Oct. 13th, 2008 12:08 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
What, you think I know the answer to those questions? I have a HORRIBLE sense of humor. The only stand-up comic I've seen perform live on stage was G. David Howard, the only sitcom I watch is Chuck, I've been actively avoiding Saturday Night Live and MAD TV since the Eighties, and the last comedy movie in the theater I saw was Shrek.
I just don't go out of my way just for funny. There has to be something more.
FP
What, you think I know the answer to those questions? I have a HORRIBLE sense of humor. The only stand-up comic I've seen perform live on stage was G. David Howard, the only sitcom I watch is Chuck, I've been actively avoiding Saturday Night Live and MAD TV since the Eighties, and the last comedy movie in the theater I saw was Shrek.
I just don't go out of my way just for funny. There has to be something more.
FP
Murraycane Force!
Feb. 18th, 2007 10:34 pmHey.
It's rare that a golf tournament would trump a motorsport event, but this weekend I was more interested in the Outback Pro-Am than the Daytona 500.
Why? Bill Murray.
His "pair" won! I wish I could have seen the end of it, but NBC decided to break from the tourney to show hockey. *shrug*
FP
It's rare that a golf tournament would trump a motorsport event, but this weekend I was more interested in the Outback Pro-Am than the Daytona 500.
Why? Bill Murray.
His "pair" won! I wish I could have seen the end of it, but NBC decided to break from the tourney to show hockey. *shrug*
FP
