http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLDx_mPSLWM
Part One
The rapid decline of Saturday Night Live was on full display once again as the late-night comedy show keeps demonstrating it has no relevance to real America. Colin Jost’s attempted joke about “de-banking,” and the audience’s full-throated laughter at it, showed both the Weekend Update host doesn’t understand what’s going on in the country and … Read more
Thanks to my buddy, Matt, for linking me to The Gunfighter a few months ago. This hilarious short film should have gone up on TTAG then. Nine minutes of quality programming here, and a bit of levity in what feels like a rough couple months of serious news at home and abroad.
Given RF’s recent post about the Burrito Boy, it reminded me of this. Pablo Francisco is a talented comedian/impressionist who does a killer “Don LaFontaine.” The late Mr. Fontaine was better known as the “Movie Trailer Guy.” You know – the ones that went “In a world…” Pablo performs one of his routines here, where … Read more
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBcASC9VqzY Way back when (in the 1950’s), Stan Freberg rocked the radio world with his comedy recordings. These two cuts are parody of the classic TV show, Dragnet. Listen for June Foray (the voice of Natasha, Rocky, and Witch Hazel) and Daws Butler (the voice of BooBoo Bear). Brilliant comedy. They don’t make ’em like … Read more
In 1961, radio comedian/advertising wunderkind Stan Freberg released what would become one of the most enduring comedy classic LPs of all time, Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America. Populated with characters voiced by Freberg, Jesse White (the original Maytag Repairman) and June Foray (Rocky, Natasha, Witch Hazel, and Granny from the classic Jay Ward and Warner ‘toons), the album was a send-up of American history, with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Add musical arrangements by Billy May (not the TV pitchman, but the guy responsible for things like the Green Hornet TV show theme), the record endures to this day as the gold standard of comedy albums.
Ah, the wonders of AlGore’s InterWeb thingy. No, I’m not talking about Mr. Global Warming’s failed attempt at creating a television network “for the rest of us.” No, I’m referring to the fact that the web has allowed just about anybody with a camera, a laptop, a broadband connection and a dream to write/direct/produce their own shows, and distribute them on the web for all to see. Of course, the one, tiny little problem with this plan is it’s virtually impossible to make money on it as a content developer, but, what the hey…we can make it up in volume, right?