September 02, 2013
A Startling Scientific Discovery
Study: People Far Away From You Not Actually Smaller [Thanks to Michael Feldman]...
May 30, 2013
Prancercise
The solution to all your fitness needs. [Thanks to Peg Bowen]...
May 09, 2013
So You Want To Move to New York City?
Maybe rent a room? Maybe not. [Thanks to Virginia Parker]...
January 22, 2013
Buddy Rich Lives!
May 14, 2012
37 Saddest Failed Kickstarters
Read 'em and weep....
February 27, 2012
The OTHER Award Show
February 22, 2012
Waking Up Is Hard To Do
[Thanks to Jeannie Behrend]...
January 19, 2012
A Little Late, But...
January 18, 2012
What's Your ACI?
For your sake, I hope it's lower than mine. [Thanks to Jim Trupin]...
January 01, 2012
Happy New Year!
[Thanks to Sal Nunziato]...
December 26, 2011
An Important Phone Call
Call (719) 266-2837 for the antidote to the post-Christmas blues....
December 08, 2011
Teddy Wayne's Tragic Facebook Romance
Novelist Teddy Wayne chronicles his messing with a Facebook scammer for three months....
November 08, 2011
Cooking with Ted
Celebrity Chef Ted Allen Cooks His Favorite Pretentious Foodie Bullshit Meal...
July 10, 2011
Finally! Curb Your Enthusiasm Returns
Tonight on HBO:...
June 22, 2011
Tom Hanks Doing Something Or Other To Promote New Movie
April 23, 2011
The Fourth American Idol Judge
February 22, 2011
Barry Manilow Annoyed that his Music May Annoy Others
Barry Manilow -- crime fighter!...
February 10, 2011
Chow Daddy!
January 27, 2011
Fake Jeopardy Interview Intros
Better than the real thing. [Thanks to Joe Hass]...
January 04, 2011
Larry Griswold
[Thanks to Mark Evanier]...
November 02, 2010
Newscast of the Year
Although maybe not appropriate for the Emmy reel: [Thanks to Michael Feldman]...
October 25, 2010
Muppet Celebrity Lookalikes
[Thanks to List of the Day]...
October 19, 2010
A Failure to Communicate
Via Failblog [Thanks to Doug Eastwick]...
October 11, 2010
Simpsons on the Couch 10/10/10
October 04, 2010
Lady GaGa Meets Delta
Well, actually, it's Cebu Pacific:...
August 30, 2010
Take My Wife, Please
August 13, 2010
Bad Yearbook Photos
Don't laugh. It could have been you....
August 07, 2010
What's Up with Goats?
August 04, 2010
Books of the Day
Read 'em and weep. A few are not safe for work. [Thanks to List of the Day]...
May 28, 2010
The Power of Editing...
...and music. Here's the official teaser ">trailer for 500 Days of Summer: And here's the reboot, ">as a thriller:...
May 11, 2010
Sioux City Rocks
Sort of. [Thanks to Michael Feldman]...
May 09, 2010
The Perfect Last-Minute Mother's Day Gift?
May 06, 2010
The Axis of Awesome
">The same four chords. [Thanks to Brian Rose]...
April 11, 2010
Passive-Aggressive Commercial of the Day
Cullman Liquidation...
April 04, 2010
Project Peepway
Happy Easter. Make it work! [Thanks to Susan Thomas]...
March 29, 2010
Why Spellcheck Just Won't Do
Funniest Newspaper Corrections. And there's more here. [Thanks to Mark Evanier]...
March 08, 2010
The Handsome Men's Club
March 02, 2010
The Facebook Did
February 22, 2010
It Finally Happened
Today, Amazon sent me an email saying I might be interested in reading the following book:...
February 11, 2010
Jim Parsons for a Good Cause
With Zach Selwyn singing....
February 01, 2010
Selleck Waterfall Sandwich
Who would have thought that one website could capture all three?...
January 16, 2010
Pants on the Ground Parts 1 & 2
December 16, 2009
Eligible Bachelors of the Day
Watch out, ladies: Protect Your Heart....
December 04, 2009
Passive Aggressive Notes
Try to escape -- but you can't....
August 30, 2009
Meryl's Lament
The Onion is a brilliant satirical newspaper, but sometimes its popular culture criticism is incisive even when it comes from a comic writer rather than a reviewer. I can't think of a better example than this mock Op-Ed piece by...
August 16, 2009
Rat Musicians
Blow, rodents, blow. [Thanks to Mark Evanier]...
July 30, 2009
So We Don't Think You Can Dance
We present, for your edification and enjoyment, White Guy Dancing, featuring none other than Arthur Kade today....
July 09, 2009
Awful Library Books
That's the name of the blog. We kinda like most of the books, though....
June 19, 2009
Dixie Does Yoga
Watch at your own risk. [Thanks to List of the Day]...
June 01, 2009
Cool Guys Don't Look at Explosions
May 20, 2009
The Proposal
Sandra Bullock & Ryan Reynolds: Behind the Scenes of The Proposal from Betty White I hate most movie trailers, especially ones for comedies. Here's one that works....
Sometimes, You Gotta Go
Ever know you are not going to make it through a movie? But when can you bolt for the bathroom? RunPee comes to the rescue, with all the, er, poop on when to leave, how much time you have to...
May 18, 2009
Behold the Average
You may be familiar with the horrors of FML. But MyLifeIsAverage, which we heard about at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch blog, is more our style....
May 07, 2009
The New Star Trek Movie: The Ultimate Betrayal
Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'...
April 01, 2009
Aharrr!
How could the author of Why Do Pirates Love Parrots? not link to a short film about a voiceover artist playing a pirate before the most annoying director of all time? This reminds me of so many real-life incidents during...
March 28, 2009
New Math
Yeah, it's a bit of a homage/ripoff of Indexed, but New Math is not uncool....
March 24, 2009
F*** You, Penguin
Cute animals are a bane on our society. I know of only one blog that is dedicated to letting them have it....
March 06, 2009
What If Woody Allen Directed Watchmen?
Dan Kois and Ashley Quigg ponder....
January 11, 2009
Satire Is What Closes Saturday Night
So sayeth George S. Kaufman. But satire is alive and well on Amazon.com. Introducing the wit of Ari Brouillette......
January 06, 2009
Introducing the Macbook Wheel
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard [Thanks to John DiBartolo]...
December 18, 2008
Best Of The Worst Christmas Albums, Vol. 1
And many more....
October 26, 2008
Digital Conversion Public Service Announcement
Haven't made the switch yet? We're here to help. Warning: ageist material. [Thanks to Debbie Puente]...
October 06, 2008
SNL Take 2
Another winner from SNL (Andy Samberg had a good night):...
October 02, 2008
It's an Honor Just To Be Nominated By Your Peers
-->...
September 19, 2008
Surreality from The Soup
July 13, 2008
Soupy Sales and Pookie
You deserve a break today: [Thanks to Michael Feldman]...
June 30, 2008
Ann Coulter's Nicorette, Bill O'Reilly's Mirror, and Katie Couric's Scarf
All this and more can be viewed at Harry Shearer's "Found Objects" outpost on mydamnchannel.com. The most famous treasure in Shearer's collection is the adventure of Dan Rather and his trenchcoat. Great stuff....
June 17, 2008
I Wanna Love You Tender
[Thanks to Elizabeth Frenchman]...
June 06, 2008
Well, WE Have Family Feud
[Thanks to Christine Beagle]...
April 24, 2008
David Gest (and Tito Jackson)
Now we see what Liza saw in him....
April 21, 2008
Rube Goldberg Would Be Proud
[Thanks to Joel Derfner]...
April 03, 2008
April Fools Day on the Web
How's this for a niche: a compilation of the myriad April Fools stunts on the Web. [Thanks to Gin Petty]...
March 31, 2008
Oddest Book Titles
Shoot. Why Do Pirates Love Parrots? didn't even make the shortlist, let alone win the coveted title....
March 11, 2008
If Celebs Moved to Oklahoma
Warning: It ain't pretty....
February 15, 2008
Stuff White People Like
Lots of stuff. [Thanks to Michael Feldman]...
January 19, 2008
Don't You Wish You Lived in Cincinnati?
Not every Friday, of course. But on some Fridays, it's DANCE PARTY FRIDAY! [Thanks to Mark Jeffries]...
January 15, 2008
The 7 Most Bizarre Celebrity Blogs
According to Cracked, anyway......
January 06, 2008
Igudesman and Joo
Check out all their videos, but we especially like this one. [Thanks to Gerry Fifer]...
December 26, 2007
The Most Expensive Drink at Starbucks
I've never been able to crack the single-digit barrier. But the price is only as limited as your imagination....
December 11, 2007
Edible Wikipiedia
Does it taste like chicken? [Thanks to Jeremy Osner]...
November 28, 2007
First Dance
November 25, 2007
The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks
I thought I was the only one who got a kick out of the proliferation of misused quotation marks. Not true. [Thanks to James Gleick]...
November 04, 2007
Seinfeld on King
I found a link to this video on Mark Evanier's wonderful website, News From ME Mark writes: Larry King used to brag a lot that he did zero preparation for his interviews...as if that was a good thing. It usually...
October 30, 2007
Inside Inside Inside
James Lipton interviews himself and likes what he sees!...
October 29, 2007
Heroes of the Writers Strike
What will writers do if the Guild strikes?...
July 05, 2007
It's Always Something
If you're going to have two mishaps, why not do so within one minute?...
June 16, 2007
More Triumph
My nephew, the inimitable Michael Feldman, found this Triump gem on the World Wide Web. Triumph does weather....
June 14, 2007
Triumph Does the Tony's
And nobody does it better....
April 12, 2007
Indexed
It's humor. It's a game. It's a puzzle. It's math. It's clever. Take it away, Jessica Hagy....
April 02, 2007
The Onion News Network...
...can fulfill all your needs....
March 30, 2007
Does Stephen Colbert Watch The Action Room?
?????????????????????...
March 29, 2007
Maraka
Robert Smigel is a national treasure. Here's last week's TV Funhouse from Saturday Night Live....
March 07, 2007
How Google's Search Technology Really Works
Maybe this is really why you never see baby pigeons. [Thanks to Neala Schwartzberg]...
December 21, 2006
A Very Different Charlie Brown Christmas
Performed by the cast of Scrubs. Warning: Rated R for language and not workplace friendly....
December 07, 2006
My Christmas Gift To You
The Holiday Party Excuse Generator. [Thanks to Joanne Pavia]...
December 03, 2006
Are You in the Target Audience for Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip?
The Studio 60 Flowchart will tell all....
November 29, 2006
RinkWorks
Don't have time to watch movies these days? How about a movie-a-minute? A book-a-minute can save you even more time. Plenty of other stuff to check out at RinkWorks, and I especially recommend the All Movie Talk, a weekly podcast...
November 24, 2006
Rejected FDA Product
As seen on the Late Show with David Letterman: O.J. Simpson's I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, But If I Did Believe It Was Butter, Here's How I Did It...
November 10, 2006
Dull Men's Club
These are my soulmates. This site revels in National Fig Month (you do know that this is National Fig Month, don't you?). It studies the direction in which carousels around the world rotate. And it includes a book review section...
November 02, 2006
Thriller...
...with Legos!...
October 06, 2006
Iggy Pop's Concert Rider
One of the great features of The Smoking Gun is the collection of concert riders. Iggy Pop's is not the most demanding, but it is certainly the funniest....
September 21, 2006
Panda Bites Man, Man Bites Him Back
Maybe not quite as bad as teaching your dog how to drive, but bad enough....
September 13, 2006
My Cubicle
James Blunt meets The Office....
September 11, 2006
First, You Have to Learn To Love Yourself
Even a monkey should know that....
September 06, 2006
It's Jerry Time!
And it's about time....
September 01, 2006
Diddy
The Andy Rooney of hiphop....
August 31, 2006
The Simpons vs. Star Trek
Nobody's a winner....
May 12, 2006
Traffic Accident
Let it never happen again....
December 24, 2005
Christmas Time for the Jews
I'm finally imbued with the Christmas spirit. The subways are running again in New York, last night Darlene Love once again performed a transcendent version of "Merry Christmas (Baby Please Come Home" on David Letterman, and I saw Robert Smigel's...
December 13, 2005
You've Been Reading Too Many Blogs...
..if you get most of these jokes. [Thanks to Jeremy Osner}...
July 11, 2005
A Polish Sausage Joke
A guy goes into the store and asks the clerk, "Can I have some Polish sausage?" The clerk looks at him and says, "Are you Polish?" The guy says, "Well, yes I am. If I had asked for Italian sausage,...
July 10, 2005
Israeli Personal Ads
Phil Proctor, of the Firesign Theatre, has been a faithful blogger since 1996. Even he is dubious about the veracity of these, but here are some ads that supposedly appeared in Israeli papers: Nice Jewish guy, 38. No skeletons. No...
May 08, 2005
Musical Postmortem
Ever wonder how a performer critiques his own concert? If you've ever wondered how Paul Anka might behave after a less than perfect concert, and you don't mind some language that would make some sailors cringe, you can find out...
April 13, 2005
Why Is the U.S. Loathed Around the World?
Some would say it's because of excessive jingoism. But I'd argue it's because of the excessive use of special effects in our music videos. [Thanks (?) to Simone Cox]...
February 22, 2005
Those Wacky Canadians
With celebrity memorabilia so expensive these days, it's great to find David Letterman's trademark so cheaply....
February 11, 2005
It's Not Too Early...
...to be thinking about how to avoid this dreaded plague that has afflicted many a neighborhood at Yule time....
December 06, 2004
The 10 Least Successful Holiday Specials of All Time
It's that time of year. Let's just be thankful that some of the Christmas specials on TV aren't quite as bad as these. [Thanks to Paul Murray]...
October 27, 2004
A NY Times Correction
Andrew Sullivan writes one of my favorite political blogs. Of late, he's drawn attention for endorsing John Kerry (Sullivan is a conservative, albeit a gay and questioning one), but today he draws attention to a rather notable correction in the...
October 24, 2004
Saturday Night, er, Live
Don't know how long it will stay up, but if you want a lesson the perils of singers working with prerecorded vocals, take a look at Ashlee Simpson on SNL last night, including the "cover-up" at the end of the...
October 15, 2004
No Respect
No, this isn't our tribute to Rodney Dangerfield, though we mourn his passing. Not since Woody Allen bungled his bank robbery in Take the Money and Run has a robber been afforded so little respect. But this time it's real....
October 03, 2004
Halloween "Poll" Augurs Well for Bush
So say the kind folks at BuyCostumes.com....
September 30, 2004
The Last Good Use for Men -- Gone!
Men have been officially replaced...