Three years ago, I wrote a piece about Elayne Boosler, one of the seminal comics of the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, I’ve followed Elayne on YouTube as she has posted clips from some of the many standup specials she did on cable, and I just ordered her new boxed set, “Timeless,” which includes four […]
Wanna see something creepy? Watch this final scene from episode three of season seven of “The Cosby Show,” which echoes the Spanish Fly bit he did years earlier on an album of standup material [thanks to Kevin Brackett for the link]…
I like hard-boiled eggs, and make ’em at home about once a week, but the other day I was in a grocery store and spotted a bag of Dutch Farms Hard-Cooked Eggs. I’d never heard them referred to as “hard-cooked,” nor did I know you could buy them ready-to-eat. On the back of the bag […]
Thanks to Stu Shostak, here’s a CBS promo for “The Dick Van Dyke Show” promoting its fifth and final season in the fall of 1965. Notice the emphasis on physical humor rather than characters and jokes. By the way, a heads up in case you want to watch any of its episodes for the umpteenth […]
If you’re thinking about becoming a copywriter for an ad agency, study this Nike spot for how to do it perfectly. Beautifully written, edited, and scored.
I had never heard of magician Misty Lee until my friend (and hers) Mark Evanier mentioned her a few times on his blog. Since then, I’ve watched some of her videos on YouTube, seen her perform on Penn & Teller’s “Fool Us,” and subscribed to her Unicorn Wednesday channel, in which she posts a weekly […]