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Every June 16 is Bloomsday, which commemorates Jame’s Joyce’s Ulysses (get free audio here). In Dublin and around the world, celebrations usually include a reading of Joyce’s classic. This year, in New York City, one high-profile event featured Stephen Colbert reading the part of Leopold Bloom, the character around which the sprawling novel turns. You [...]
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A quick find … I wanted to flag a good interview with George Carlin where he talks candidly about his evolution as a comic and the strange trajectory of his career. The conversation was held at the 92nd Street Y in New York. You can download it here: iTunes - Feed - MP3 - Blog [...]
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Here’s the obit. And here’s Carlin with Johnny Carson over 40 years ago, sporting a very different look. Rather remarkable to look at.
Also worth a look is his famous piece: Seven Dirty Words You Can’t Hear on TV because it formed the basis for a first amendment case that went to the US Supreme Court [...]
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And while you’re at it also watch this old gem.
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Nerve and IFC have pulled together a fun list that counts down the 50 funniest sketches in television history. Happily, the list features many video clips, and this inspired us to post one of our own. Here we have John Belushi, appearing on Saturday Night Live in the late 1970s, performing a classic bit called [...]
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A merry, musical St. Pat’s greeting to you from your Irish-American correspondent, presented by his three favorite muppets:
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Apparently not the real deal, but a pretty good impersonation nonetheless…
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It may not qualify as culture, but it’s funny and rings awfully true … (Along similar lines, you can get some good animated New Yorker cartoons here and here.)
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Funny but partly instructive….
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Fake Steve Jobs, a wildly popular blog written by Daniel Lyons, an editor at Forbes, has been goofing on the real Steve Jobs all year. And now things have taken an odd turn. During the same week that Apple apparently shut down ThinkSecret.com (an Apple rumor site) in exchange for cash, Apple may be applying [...]
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For the first night of Hanukkah, we bring you a classic bit from Saturday Night Live (1989) starring Jon Lovitz called “Hanukkah Harry Saves Christmas.” You can watch the video directly on NBC’s site along with other vintage SNL videos. (Sorry, I couldn’t find an embed for this one.)
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A character from Saturday Night Live’s heyday:
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Someone did a lot of legwork and pulled together a heap of Monty Python videos on YouTube. The list includes one famous segment called “Dead Parrot,” which is notable partly because it’s funny, and partly because it forms the basis of a secondary joke.
To make a long story short, there are some folks out there [...]
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Catch the full collection of animated New Yorker cartoons here on YouTube and our personal favorite here.
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Listen closely. What’s that you hear? It’s the sound of American office productivity taking it on the chin.
Yesterday, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” put its entire video archive online (see www.thedailyshow.com). The archive goes back eight years. It’s completely free. And it’s all highly searchable. To get a feel for what this video trove [...]
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Last week, we offered you Woody Allen’s stand-up routine in black & white; this week we’re doing it in animated color. (You can get more animated bits here and here, and note that we created a Comedy category here.)
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In yesterday’s New York Times, Stephen Colbert took over Maureen Dowd’s regular opinion column and made a funny case for why he could be the next US president. Read it here. Also listen to his interview last week on NPR’s Fresh Air (iTunes - Feed - Web Site). These appearances all figure into a [...]
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I’ve heard this joke many times before on audio, but never seen it on video. Here it goes. The Moose Joke apparently from 1965.
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Lenny Bruce (born Leonard Alfred Schneider) introduced a strongly satirical, taboo-breaking form of comedy during the 1950s and 1960s, which paved the way for some of America’s great comedians — Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Chris Rock, even John Stewart. And for ushering in this new era of comedy, Bruce paid a heavy personal price. In [...]
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HBO just started airing the sixth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, so it seemed fitting to serve up this lengthy interview with Larry David. The talk is very funny. No shock there. But it also gets into some good substance. How Larry got into comedy; how he struggled during his early standup years and had [...]
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For a little weekend laugh, here is Stephen Colbert speaking at Book Expo America, pumping his new book, I Am America (And So Can You!), sparring with Khaled Hosseini (author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns), trashing Cormac McCarthy, and generally likening books to cigarettes. The clip gets better as it moves [...]
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When Bill Moyers returned to PBS two weeks ago, his first program took a careful look at how the mainstream media has fallen down on the job when it comes to asking tough questions to politicians. Given this starting point, it seemed logical for Moyers to speak next (iTunes - Feed) with John Stewart, host [...]
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Oodles of print have been written about Sacha Baron Cohen’s film, “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” And there’s perhaps not a great deal more to say about it, other than it’s remarkable how well the film has been received by America’s cultural establishment. Edgy, shock comedy that uses [...]
