Our tribute to Jerry Lewis continues with this Martin Short homage to Lewis from his old SCTV days (1982-3). Short proved himself a brilliant comic and impressionist early, playing Lewis as surreally appearing in atypical film roles – once as the Robert Duvall character in Tender Mercies and in this one, an Ingmar Bergman send-up entitled “Scenes From an Idiots Marriage"...

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THERE GOES THE SUN By Eric Gould

The solar eclipse across America tomorrow, August 21, is the first to occur in 38 years, and another won’t appear again until 2024. So review all the cosmological geometry here provided by National Geographic and get your ISO 12312-2 compliant solar shade...

2017

Aug

LEWIS & GRIFFIN By Eric Gould

Comedian Jerry Lewis passed away today, Sunday, August 20, at his home in Las Vegas. He was 91. Lewis’ influence was far and wide, including in this 2010 Family Guy tribute to his Count Basie “Blues in Hoss' Flat” bit from his 1961 comedy, The Errand Boy...

2017

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TAKING BOTH SIDES By Eric Gould

CNN’s The History of Comedy is focusing in on political comedy this week, and one of their early citations is the late Pat Paulsen, who ran for president in 1968 as a gag as part of his stint on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour... that’s evident here in a performance art-like split screen of him answering a question two ways...

2017

Aug

PERFECT LEFTOVERS By Eric Gould

In case you missed it, this week marked the 24th anniversary of the season finale of ABC’s odd-couple sitcom Perfect Strangers... The Leftovers had a brief joke in Season One which started out as a writer’s room gag – the 2% of the world’s population gone in the rapture-like disappearance of the Sudden Departure also included the cast of Perfect Strangers...

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GLEN CAMPBELL 1936-2017 By Eric Gould

Country singer Glen Campbell died Tuesday, August 9 in Nashville, six years after his Alzheimer's disease diagnosis... Campbell performs here in 1968 on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour where he became a popular regular and took over as a host of the brother's summer replacement series...

2017

Aug

LIGHT MY FIRE By Eric Gould

In case you haven’t heard, Game of Thrones Princess Daenerys Targaryen had just about enough of the Lannister army last Sunday and unleashed one of her now full-grown dragons. Things quickly increased in temperature...

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