January 31, 2006
Make you happy tonight
The Australian trio Tripod, performing their song Make you happy tonight at a comedy festival
Frank Caliendo: “I think it’s great that we have a president who seems like he’s always looking direct at the sun…”
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Dante Alighieri & Albrecht Dürer Gustave Dore meet YTMND. (Thanks, Rob M!)
Russell Peters and other Canadian stand-up comedians, as chosen by Sameer Vasta
If you were able to pick anyone you wanted to create the ultimate SNL cast, who would you choose?
AwesomeTown, a Fox pilot, created by Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer. (Long download)
Repost: "I didn't drag myself halfway across Antarctica on my butt so you could sit here all day playing strip poker with Kareem Abdul Jabbar Jr.!" And other Phrases Which Have Never Before Been Spoken or Written
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November 27, 2005
Some Video clips
John Cleese Ringtones at $ 2.49 a pop. (Who buys that junk?) It’s a long way from Fawlty Towers
Kugelmass, a professor of humanities at City College, was unhappily married for the second time. Daphne Kugelmass was an oaf. He also had two dull sons by his first wife, Flo, and was up to his neck in alimony and child support.
"Did I know it would turn out so badly?" Kugelmass whined to his analyst one day. "Daphne had promise. Who suspected she'd let herself go and swell up like a beach ball? Plus she had a few bucks, which is not in itself a healthy reason to marry a person, but it doesn't hurt, with the kind of operating nut I have. You see my point?"
Kugelmass was bald and as hairy as a bear, but he had soul…. (From ”O Mundo De Claudia”)
John Cocktosten and the rest of Fletch's Identities in order of appearance. (From a creative thread about creative fictional character names - Benovan Stanchiano, Noboru Watanabe, Ivanna Humpsalot, Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Mucho Maas , Lili Von Shtupp, Scooter Libby, so many more). The subject was raised by John Martz
Dave Chappelle’s The Niggar Family
Will Ferrell in this week’s Earth to America “global Warming” gala. “We now return to your regularly scheduled program”
The 8 types of joke archetypes
The Goon Show Preservation Society
Colbert Nation recaps
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July 31, 2005
The Aristodogs
The Seven Laws of Comedy Writing by David Evans. 1. Be able to throw out your best joke. Six more
The History of SNL's Black Dudes
The Aristocrats - The Greatest Dirty Joke Ever Told and what’s funny about telling it 75 times. Salon review. "What the hell was Penn thinking" - The official movie site. (Thank you, Nick)
Getting old & cranky: 20 minutes of a George Carlin’s rant. Text of Why We Don't Need 10 Commandments. (Usual warning!)
Animations of some Jim Carrey's clips
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June 26, 2005
Challenging Times
Steve Bridges is Mister President. (From ”Trans Buddha”)
Glossary of Comedy Nomenclature
The Ladies of "SNL" Top Ten hotties
Commercial Samples of VoiceOvers artists
I've never paid much attention to voice-overs. Then a few weeks ago, while watching a Duracell commercial, I had an epiphany: That voice in the background, prattling on about battery life, belonged to Jeff Bridges…
“Pickles are cucumbers that sold out”. More Mitch Hedberg’s quotes
Complete Cowbell Craze Review
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March 23, 2005
A Lot Of Spam
Allah made Azhar Usman Funny (And the FBI follows him)
Groucho Marx’s Letter to Warner Brothers. While preparing to film “A Night in Casablanca”, the Marx brothers received a letter from Warner Bros. threatening legal action if they did not change the film’s title. Warner Bros. deemed the film’s title too similar to their own Casablanca, released almost five years earlier in 1942, with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. In response Groucho Marx dispatched the following letter to the studio’s legal department
Old stuff at The American Vaudeville Museum. (From ”Bibi’s Box”)
Also, The Great Silent Clowns
What To Expect Of 'Spamalot'? A Lot Of Spam. “Spamalot" fans who signed up for a newsletter on the Broadway musical's official Web site may end up getting spammed a lot
A curtain call with 5 live Pythons, and a long list of “Spamalot” reviews, from The “Depraved Librarian”
Dave Allen - Times obituary. (He cracked me up, in the 70’s)
Woody Allen- Standup Comic, 1964-1968
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Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is “Liquid Sky Art” - Explore creativity every day. I finally made a little Linking Icon the “winner” can stick on their site, if they wish.
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January 22, 2005
“If I only had one tooth, I think I would brush it a real long time”
Portraits by Andres Eccles, from The Steve Martin blog, Sharing Steve
Cruel Shoes was Steve Martin's first book. It contained a number of short absurd pieces that are not easily classified. If you live in Southern California, try ‘The Diarrhea Gardens of El Camino Real’
He gave his life for tourism! Steve Martin King Tut skit. But Steve Martin had to come clean: King Tut was not a honky
The Comedy Butchers. (From “Blort”)
“If a man is smiling all the time he's probably selling something that doesn't work”. Things to Watch Out For, and other Carlinisms
Did you take the pills? "Pharmacy" from “Olde English” site
50 Most Loathsome People in America. I like No. 3:
"3. You
Crimes: You gaze idly at the carnage around you, sigh, and go calmly back to your coffee and your People magazine. You can’t stop buying useless crap, though you’re drowning in a deepening pool of debt. You think you’re an activist because you bitch all day on the internet, but you reelect the same gangsters at a 99% rate. You consider yourself informed because you waste a significant portion of your life watching the same three news stories cycle over and over again on your gargantuan, aerodynamic television set while you eat processed food…"
Unassembled Snowman for sale - Cheap! (Can look like this)
Claire Zulkey’s Interview with Ben Karlin, the Executive Producer of "The Daily Show."
Slate’s Elegy for Dave Barry
(Btw, Nos’, knock it off…)
Talking about comedians, today’s “Blog Of The Day” is Nat Friedman’s “Nat”: “Biography lends to death a new terror”. If you wish to have your blog considered as “Blog Of The Day”, or if you know of a blog that should get same recognition, please email me at realhanan (at) yahoo (dot) com, or post a comment at the bottom of this post.
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November 07, 2004
Lydia The Tattooed Lady
Flush Hojo Game. (From ”TV FunHouse”)
Lisa Rein’s complete archives of The Daily Show videos
Howard Dean staffer Karl Vincent Frisch impersonates Clinton, Bush, Clark and Dean. From Chuck Olsen’s new ‘Blogumentary’
Letter & emails to Legend Richard Pryor
The Ministry of Silly Walk clip. “Just The Words” - The complete unexpurgated scripts of the original Monty Python’s Flying Circus (From Ib Rasmussen's Thumbnail Gallery). Btw, noses are rarely mentioned by Josephus, and big noses not at all, except by implication. Yet despite this, Life of Brian, which, according to its writers, is “based on a load of Josephus”, begins its post-title action with an intense rhinometric argument. Complete script of Life Of Brian
Woody Allen on George S. Kaufman. (NYT article, may disappear; No mirror yet)
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October 18, 2004
The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."
Listen to Karl Reiner and Mel Brooks’s 2000 Year Old Man
Al Simmons at 2004 Edmonton Folk Festival. Al Simmons, Playing the turkey baster
The Tale of “Spamalot”, by Eric Idle. Part 2 and Part 3. The original Dead Parrot Sketch: "'Ello, I wish to register a complaint..."
Quotes by Comedians and Humorists. From Ambrose Bierce: "The covers of this book are too far apart."
From Tom Raworth
Quote above, again, from George Carlin. Many of the Best Comedians in the World Here
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August 19, 2004
Who is Red Peters and what does he do?
Red Peters is back. Many musicologists believe that if Red Peters had stuck with just one musical style, he'd have been a power player years ago. Instead, he jumped from art-rock/new-wave ("Give Youself A Handy, You've Earned It") to a brief Punk stint with the Swollen Members. He also sang on a record for a capella group, singing "You Promised the Moon (But I Preferred Uranus)", and recorded the tear jerking true "Ballad of a Dog Named Stains" for country / folksters Smelly Water during his Nashville period. Check out this video clip of Red's TV Commercial for "Ol' Blue Balls Is Back!" Why is he not as famous as George Carlin?
“You volunteered, didn’t you?” - Bill Murray Soundboard from Ebaumsworld
The Umbilical Brothers on Leno & on Letterman
AV Club Interview with Robert Smigel
A Project by Jon Haddock: Ninety-eight paper mache pulp figures representing the members of the US senate who voted for the USA Patriot Act
"My lucky number is four billion. That doesn't come in real handy when you're gambling"
“Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.” From “The Random Groucho Marx Quotes Page”
Photo above from Celebrity wonder. Many More Unusual Comedians Here
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July 25, 2004
Are you a Marxist?
How mimes meet, a short film by “Pickle”
Father’s Day Tribute sung by Groucho Marx. From Rick Brunner
More Harpo Marx GIF Images, from the previously- posted “Harpo Marx Tribute Site”
Marx Brothers Balloons at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade 2003
Robin Williams on Golf (Warning: Lots of vice-presidential language!)
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May 19, 2004
Leonard, Milton, Julius, Herbert, Adolph & Karl Marx
The Harpo Marx Life Cover story, from “Marx out of Print” - A “tribute to The Marx Brothers with full reproductions of Books and Articles from Magazines and other Publications that are now 'out of print' and hard to find”
The five Marx Graves and The grave of Karl Marx (Just another Communist plot)
Test your knowledge of Marx trivia
Also, Laurenn & Hardler
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May 01, 2004
Comedy Central
I once heard the voice of God. It said "Vrrrrmmmmm." Unless it was just a lawn mower.
MP3 by George Carlin (From “Ollapodrida”)
Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups . The Top Ten: Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Chris Rock, Steve Martin, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Cosby, Roseanne Barr & Eddie Murphy.
Monty Python’s completely useless Holy Grail - Pictures, Sounds, Video & Scripts
Rachel Arieff’s Guide to Happiness
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April 20, 2004
Old and Dead Comedians
The Funeral of Ski the Clown
Weird Al Yankovic’s parents died last week.
The next big star on “Saturday Night Live” is going to be “Bad Dog” Fred Armisen. And who is the voice behind SNL announcements? The official bio of Don Prado says that he was born in feb. 22, 1918. That makes him 86 years old. Doesn’t sound like 86.
Reviews of the Janet Jackson Saturday Night Live episode from April 10, as well as all other shows
Dirty old man - George Carlin on obscenity in the age of Ashcroft (Salon subscription required)
Skip Banks is The Balloon Man!
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March 16, 2004
“I’m gonna buy you a diamond so big – it’s gonna make you puke!” – All of Steve Martin’s movie trailers (From “The Compleat Steve” )
Groucho Marx anecdotes (From ”Snarky Malarky”). And, Grudge match - The Three Stooges vs. Marx Brothers
”The Fairy Godfather” from Robert Schimmel, bedtime fairy tales may never be the same (Language, as usual)
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others."
-- Groucho Marx
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January 31, 2004
Here are the 2003 “Grow-a-Brain” Comedians Collection.
"Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse". And more Groucho Marx quotes - 12/23/03
All of Monty Python Scripts: Here is the The Ministry of Silly Walks. The Bright Side Ringtone
Autographs of famous comedians, from Cheech & Chong to a blank check by Lenny Bruce (why'd he do that?) - 11/11/03
Carlin-Leary Personality Assessment Matrix. (From Gary L. Dryfoos) - 9/21/03
Celebrating Christopher Walken
Charlie Chaplin - 11/11/03
Dennis Miller's Advice on What We Want From the Opposite Sex (and the "Dennis Miller Talking Action Figure", with 21 snide phrases - 11/5/03). "Trying to Help" - Dennis Miller explains his political re-incarnation - 11/27/03. The Miller's Crossing - "It's 4 a.m., and comedian Dennis Miller can't sleep..."
Did Bob Hope ever say anything funny? By Christopher Hitchens - 8/3/03
Ed Grimley travels the world. (From Side Salad) - 8/14/03
First ever Arab-American Comedy Festival... (From Jeff Jarvis's Buzz Machine) - 11/24/03
Hate-mail sent to Margaret Cho, after her comments at the MoveOn.org show a few days ago. Beware - Lots of profanities - 1/16/04
If life seems jolly rotten,
There's something you've forgotten!
And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing,
When you're feeling in the dumps,
Don't be silly chumps, J
ust purse your lips and whistle -- that's the thing!
And... always look on the bright side of life...
Jango Edwards, an American clown living in Europe
John Cleese lookalike & impersonator
Kookclub (From Coudal Partners) - 7/10/03
Laurel and Hardy, and Laurel and Hardy ventriloquist dummies
Leno, Letterman jokes and JayWalking
"Live from New York" An Oral History of Saturday Night Live, by Tom Shales and James Andrew Miller
"MacHomer", The Simpsons do Macbeth in Alabama, with Rick Miller's one-man show - 10/31/03
Marijuanalogues and their Videos - 9/8/03
Mr Bill got his own website - 12/21/03
Penn & Teller - topics of the new show
Politically Incorrect - a transcript of the last show
Robert De Niro Monologue on SNL, on the search for Al-Qaeda's suspects. (From "Attu") - 1/14/04
Robert Schimmel (Language!) - 7/27/03
Shazia Mirza, A female, Muslim, British domedian
Vaudeville Slang - 8/24/03
"What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know." From Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy (And Not by Jack Handy - 9/19/03)
Will Ferrell gives the 352nd Harvard Commencement Speech
World's least desirable action figure - "Mr. Creosote" from Monty Python's “Meaning of Life”. Splatter fans, this is a must-have. (From Cuppa Tea) - 1/4/04
"Writing Is Easy" by Steve Martin
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