New Year’s Eve deserves a comedy and let me recommend the 2019 Matthew Rankin film The Twentieth Century, a completely bonkers “biopic” of Canadian prime minister McKenzie King’
Well, this sucks: Norm Macdonald, whose laconic delivery of sharp and incisive observations made him one of Saturday Night Live‘s most influential and beloved cast members, died today after a nine-y
This is the grave of David Brenner. Born in 1936 in Philadelphia, Brenner grew up in the poor Jewish community of that city. His father was a vaudeville comedian and David grew up in his shadow but al
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 ou
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 at the end of
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. B
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 Dress Like Hitler. &n
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 imagi