Tag Archives: Comedians

Rodney Dangerfield: ‘Opening Stand-Up from It’s Not Easy Bein Me (1982)’

“Rodney Dangerfield comes out swinging during his first television special on ABC. 0:29 “Last week I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.” 2:16 “I joined Gamblers Anonymous. … Continue reading

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The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson: ‘Shelly Winters Dumps Her Drink All Over Oliver Reed (1975)’

“Shelly Winters Dumps Her Drink All Over Oliver Reed on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson – 09/26/1975” From The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson Watching the exchanges between Hollywood Goddess Shelly Winters and British actor Oliver Reed, is like watching … Continue reading

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The Carol Burnett Show: ‘The Candidates’ Wives From The Carol Burnett Show’

“Walter Windrum’s Wonderful World of Women welcomes the wives of rival politicians, who wind up in a major cat fight!” From The Carol Burnett Show At risk of sounding sexist and chauvinistic (to politically correct candy-asses) if only American voters knew … Continue reading

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Rodney Dangerfield: ‘Discusses Origin of No Respect (1973)’

“Rodney appears as the mystery guest on a 1973 episode of “What’s My Line?”, where he tells the story about how he came up with his iconic line, “I don’t get no respect”. From Rodney Dangerfield We had a post on … Continue reading

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The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson: ‘Carl Reiner Talks About His Insecurities’ 1/04/1983

“Carl Reiner Talks About His Insecurities on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson – 01/04/1983” From The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson Watching Carl Reiner spontaneously go into doing Italian opera (especially after claiming he didn’t speak much Italian) I think … Continue reading

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The Dick Cavett Show: ‘The Best of Carl Reiner Guest Hosting’

“With comedy legend Carl Reiner passing this week here’s a compilation of best moments from when he guest hosted the show back in 1971!” From The Dick Cavett Show I gotta be honest (not for a change) that I was underwhelmed … Continue reading

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Glenn Beck: ‘Comedy Has Been Taken Over by Insanely Self-Important People Like Stephen Colbert’

Source: The New Democrat My counterpoint to Glenn Beck here is going to sound like an impression of Captain Obvious and perhaps put me in contention for the World Championship of obvious statements and yet Glenn Beck seems to miss … Continue reading

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The Atlantic: Hannibal Buress- Advice For Comedians

Source: The New Democrat I didn’t get much from Hannibal Buress here as far as advice for comedians, other than that inspiring comedians should just do it. Write down what they think and try to get a job performing or … Continue reading

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The Economist: ‘When Donald Trump Met Vladimir Putin- Cartooned’

Source:The Economist– Don meets Vlad. Source:The New Democrat  “President Trump spent two hours alone with President Putin at a controversial meeting in Helskini this week. Our cartoonist Kal imagines the encounter.” From The Economist I think a better name for the … Continue reading

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CBS News: Baseball Great Yogi Berra Dead at 90: An icon of Sports and Quotes

Source:The Daily Review I think it would be fairly easy just to write a piece about Yogi Berra featuring a lot of his great one-liners. But we’re talking about one of the top 3-5 catchers in the history of Major … Continue reading

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