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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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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. ...
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...
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...
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. ...
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
Last Friday, Trump was what he would do if Putin did not come to table to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He answered -- " We’re going to see whether or not they have a meeting, that will be...
Last night late, it was reported that Democrat Catelin Drey won an Iowa state senate Special Election, breaking the MAGOP supermajority. Great news, of course – but me being me, as you might...
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...
27.08.2025
A couple of years ago, I posted a great Commencement Address that JB Pritzker gave at Northwestern University in June, 2023, which I wrote about and embedded here . And he also gave a great speech...
In the article I posted last week with the full-episode video here of The Harry Secombe Show -- on which he sang a duet from La Boheme with an opera singer -- I mentioned that it wasn’t all...
26.08.2025
No, that's not a typo. Bear with me. The other day, Trump posted a long screed online complaining about what the Smithsonian Institution was exhibiting in its museums -- something that no...
This is a surprising treat. It’s Barry Humphries singing a song from Oliver! . What makes it a surprising treat are two things -- First, though the name Barry Humphries might be familiar...
25.08.2025
From the archives. The contestant is Stephen Farrand from Freeport, Maine. It’s a tough one. I didn’t get the composer style, in large part because it’s one I’m not terribly well-versed...
On this “The Weekly Show” podcast with Jon Stewart, his guest is Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear. As the show writes, “In a political landscape defined by polarization, Jon is joined by Governor...
The guest on this week’s Al Franken podcast is Ian Bassin, the co-founder and Executive Director of Protect Democracy. It's an episode from a few months back, but I'm only getting around to it...
Yesterday, I saw a headline about Trump going on and on about grass, and how he was “good at grass.” I ignored it, because it was an old story from days earlier, when I saw him saying that...
I can't believe how many years it's been since I had a sketch from Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. So, let's rectify that right way. This is an old classic from their TV series in the 1960s, but...
On this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me! , the guest contestant is Pedro Pascal. His conversation with co-host Tom Papa is funny and...