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17.09.2025
The great Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, among their many sketches had one character they would go back to every once in a while -- a semi-well-meaning, but much too clueless upper class oaf, generally...
Yesterday, there was an exchange on Fox between one of their hosts Greg Gutfeld and Jessica Tarlov, their resident liberal. They were, of course, discussing the shooting, when Ms. Tarlov brought up...
16.09.2025
Reading social media the past week has gotten creepy. In part from general postings, but also comments from MAGOP officials and panel discussions on far-right “news” shows. The surface...
And one more of the sketches Amy Poehler did early her career on Conan O’Brien’s 12:30 AM talk show. As I’ve written, the recuring character she played was ‘Stacy,’ the teenage sister of...
15.09.2025
Reading social media the past week has gotten creepy. In part from general postings, but also comments from MAGOP officials and panel discussions on far-right “news” shows. The surface...
From the archives, this week's contestant is Eli Robbins from Peachtree City, Georgia. I was able to get the composer style quite easily, which is rare for me. Both the contestant and host Fred...
On this week’s Naked Lunch podcast, you may not know the guest, but you surely know the results of his notable career. Co-hosts Phil Rosenthal and David Wild write that they have “a far-ranging...
14.09.2025
The guest on this week’s Al Franken podcast is George Packer who writes for The Atlantic. As the show writes, “JD Vance has had an unorthodox rise to power. After a troubled childhood, he...
Live from Des Moines, Iowa, on this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestant is University of Iowa basketball coach Jan Jensen –...
13.09.2025
I think it’s awful that MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd as a commentator. He’s a smart, great analyst – and his career as a consultant has long been for Republicans. In fact, he was the chief...
Robert J. Elisberg is a political commentator, screenwriter, novelist, tech writer and also some other things that I just tend to keep forgetting. Elisberg is a two-time recipient of the Lucille...
The other day, I was telling a friend about me being a "habitual" letter writer and often go to the top of a company when sending a letter off. (Not because I expect an answer for the business's...
12.09.2025
If you didn't see Jon Stewart's Monday hosting of The Daily Show , it was consistently hilarious. There's too much to cover, so let's just say it's a look at Trump since the show took it's few-week...
I think it’s tragic and contemptible when anyone gets murdered. I think it’s tragic and contemptible, as well as visceral, when a public figure gets murdered. Whoever they are. I...
11.09.2025
I haven’t had a “50 People Try to…” video from Epicurious for a while, so let’s correct that. These are the videos where Epicurious magazine sets a pretty basic cooking task and brings...
On Monday, NBC released the results of their most recent poll, and the numbers were bad for Trump – on overall approval, and approval on all important issues. But one particular number on an...
10.09.2025
This may seem like stating the obvious. And some of it is. But it's much more than that. Bear with me. And so it came to pass that parts of the Epstein birthday book were released to the public...
I don't mention this often enough -- as in, I think I've mentioned it once in the past ten years -- but I recently got an account statement from Amazon Associates, and so it seem a reminder of a good...
If you didn't see Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on Sunday, his article was about (as you can see) Trump vs. Higher Education. It was pointed, infuriating, damning, and still often very...
09.09.2025
And so, at least in small numbers – so far – convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and guilty business fraud Trump has sent the National Guard to Chicago. They haven't been deployed into Chicago...
To honor the first day of school, I wanted to post this this episode of Kukla, Fran and Ollie, about the Kuklapolitans heading back to class, on the anniversary it originally aired. But that...
08.09.2025
On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestant is Paul Giamatti. His interview with host Peter Sagal is great fun, as they...
Today, we have the second compilation I mentioned before, when I posted Part 1 of Broadway musical performances on The Ed Sullivan Show. I'm going to try to post these on the first Sunday of...
07.09.2025
This week the Al Franken podcast is a repeat from 2022, in honor of Bob Odenkirk’s new movie “Nobody 2” opening, And so the guest (again) is – not shockingly – Bob Odenkirk. As the show...
From the archives. This week's contestant is Kristen Zoetewey from Grand Rapids, Michigan. I had an odd result from the contest. When it finished, I had no clue. And yet I should have...
06.09.2025
In a lot of my articles recently, I’ve noted that in all Special Elections that have occurred since Trump took office, Democrats have increased their margins by 15-20 points. And it’s that...
As readers of this site know well, I’ve long written about my Internet friend Peter Breiner. For those new to the party, Peter is a remarkably accomplished musician -- composer, arranger and...
05.09.2025
I’ve long written that the problems for Trump will only get worse, because he not only has surrounded himself with unqualified incompetents who don’t have the skillset to help him out of his...
This is a wonderful treat that is much to brief at 10 minutes, cut from what is clearly a longer TV appearance. It’s described on YouTube as being from what appears may be a local New York City...
04.09.2025
Last Friday, a federal court ruled that most of Trump’s tariffs were illegal. Courts were shut down for the next three days for the Labor Day holiday. That means they opened up again on...
This is a great deal of fun. In 2007, as a bonus feature to go along with the release of the complete set of Seinfeld DVDs, all four actors and Larry David got together to talk about the show,...
03.09.2025
Days after Catelin Drew flipped a Red Iowa seat in the statehouse and picked up 22 points from the last statehouse race in the same district -- a district that Trump himself won in 2024, as well --...
This is short, but sweet. Yes, I know I yammer a lot about my fave Harry Secombe, but that’s one of the pleasures of having one’s own website. Besides, since we got to meet once in 1968 when...
02.09.2025
To celebrate Labor Day, I thought I'd post a few little-known songs about labor -- two from Broadway musicals, and one that's well-remembered from its day, but not now. We'll start with this from...
The contestants today are Janie and Andrew Wittenberg from Cincinnati, Ohio. I got the hidden song pretty quickly, and I thought others should have a solid chance to do so, as well – though the...
On this week’s episode of 3rd & Fairfax , the official podcast of the Writers Guild of America, the guests are Hacks creators & showrunners Lucia Aniello & Paul W. Downs & Jen Statsky. ...
The guests on this week’s Al Franken podcast are by two veterans of the DOJ: Barbara McQuade, professor at University of Michigan Law School, and Daniel Richman, professor at Columbia Law School. ...
Continuing our Labor Day Fest of little-known labor songs from Broadway musical, this is the song "7-1/2 Cents" from the movie version of the musical, The Pajama Game. The Broadway show was a...
We end our honoring Labor Day with another little-known song about unions and labor, but one that is not from a musical. And while it's little-known today (bordering on unknown...), it was very...
28.08.2025
Randy Rainbow has a new song parody -- and it's a very good one. A great song to parody (as you see below), some wonderful rhymes and clever lyrics, and a vibrant production. He now has an...