Thank God for Youtube and Nick at Nite. Though the television show Murphy Brown ended its 10 year run in the 90’s, you can still catch it on the web. The cable channel, home of old champions like Designing Women and The Cosby Show– for its part– had broadcast Murphy Brown for two years…thus allowing [...]
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January 2, 2010
Dratch It Up A Notch
Rachel Dratch must be the least appreciated woman in comedy…and that’s saying something, because very few women are appreciated in comedy anyway. That’s not knee-jerk feminism, that’s fact. As a veteran of not only Saturday Night Live but also the highly esteemed Second City troupe in Chicago, she deserves our respect! …And bucketloads of regular [...]
September 16, 2009
Tina Fey Wouldn’t Stand For This!
Like most, when I heard that SNL was going to be hiring more women, I thought “Great, with these additions, the cast will almost be an even-steven men to women ration”. But, instead of that and to make room for the new ladies, they’ve actually shitcanned two female cast members that barely even got to [...]
July 31, 2009
Now That’s How You Cover Jim Croce.
I had a sort of Proustian rush the other day when I heard Jim Croce’s “Time In a Bottle” come on the radio. The song bounced around my inner workings in my very early years (it was a posthumous hit for Croce–who died in a plane crash) and filled the airwaves of my youth along [...]
July 26, 2009
The Old Man and the Fleabag
Recently, I received a worthy forward. It was a video compilation of reporters eating it. It’s very funny…though for a few of these clips, I was left a bit anxious…wondering if the reporter featured was actually physically alright afterwards. Have a look and try not to cringe too much.
There are a few clips that [...]
