
Comedy Bladder Control
We had a great time at Chris Rock’s standup show this weekend, in which he offered only a couple of jokes about the Will Smith Oscars slap. But there was something that really annoyed me.
We had a great time at Chris Rock’s standup show this weekend, in which he offered only a couple of jokes about the Will Smith Oscars slap. But there was something that really annoyed me.
I have a few observations after watching the HBO documentary about the legendary comedian, including a story about the only time he guested on my radio show.
The news about the impending SCOTUS decision reversing Roe v. Wade has left me furious and speechless. Fortunately, I have a clip of George Carlin discussing the topic as only he could.
Devin Gordon asks, “Whatever Happened To Jon Stewart?” The resulting piece in The Atlantic is a tone-perfect takedown of the man who will be awarded the Mark Twain Prize tomorrow night.
I can’t claim to have known Gilbert Gottfried, who has died at age 67, but I have a couple of stories to share about him, including the day he dropped in on my radio show for a few minutes.
As a longtime Marxist, I was thrilled to finally get to see Frank Ferrante’s one-man show about Groucho Marx, which I’d heard so much about from my friend Mark Evanier. Here’s my review.