The gruff but lovable broadcaster, who relished life, language and levity, has passed away at the ripe old age of 91. I always enjoyed his bits on Saturday Night Live, but probably not as much as he enjoyed doing them. Here's the famously stone-faced newsman back in 1978 interviewing rock superstars KISS, in a report that is practically a blueprint for the classic mockumentary This Is Spınal Tap.
A long time ago, i.e. before Kodachrome and talkies, in a galaxy far, far away...
So Jerry Lewis, Christopher Hitchens and other peculiar men have said. Here are 12 women that are funnier than Jerry Lewis ever was.
1. Dorothy Parker
2. Imogene Coca
3. LaWanda Page
4. Carol Burnett
5. Madeline Kahn
6. Merrill Markoe
7. Catherine O'Hara
8. Carol Leifer
9. Jan Hooks
10. Dawn French
11. Jennifer Saunders
12. Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Teri Garr, Gilda Radner, Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Andrea Martin, Tracey Ullman, Marla Gibbs, Robin Duke, Whoopi Goldberg, Roseanne Barr, Katey Sagal, Jennifer Coolidge, Luenell, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Alanna Ubach, Teresa Strasser, Missi Pyle, Chelsea Peretti, Kate Beaton, Aisha Tyler, Ann Ivins, my mom, my wife, my daughter... I can go on for a while before I get to Jerry Lewis.
Beer, fat guys and slow motion: a combo that simply can't be beat. Enjoy this new ad from Australia's Carlton Draught.
These should bring back some pleasant memories to those who dig sports and grew up reading and collecting issues of Creepy and Eerie. A wonderful blog dedicated to the classic Warren magazines, by the way, is here.
Cover art credits: 1. Ken Kelly; 2. Don Maitz; 3. Don Maitz; 4. Ken Kelly; 5. Kim McQuaite. Click on the images for more information on each issue and a larger version of the artwork.
Master packer Adam Carolla shows the missus how to properly jampack a car and has his mother-in-law under, or more correctly onto, his thumb.
I wasn't a huge Bill Hicks fan while he was alive; I preferred the crazed irreverence of his contemporary Sam Kinison, and I thought Hicks mined some of the same territory Lenny Bruce and George Carlin already had. So I missed out on a lot of Hicks' work while he was around.
Since his untimely passing, though, I've become very fond of his work and the man himself, who was in person a most humble and sensitive soul, and regret that I hadn't paid closer attention while he was with us. But he's never really left. His words resonate today, more clearly than ever, given the sad state of mindless consumerism, deregulation and consolidation, and creative homogenization that the nation has devolved into.
With Hicks, Carlin, Hunter Thompson and other prophets and harbingers and heralds gone, and much of the societal horrors they warned us about having come to pass, it's enough to make one contemplate the benefits of suicide. But then I remember we still have Jon Stewart, Adam Carolla, Ricky Gervais, Matt Taibbi, Craig Ferguson, Larry David and so many others, and even Paul Mooney is still speaking out, an echo of my late hero Richard Pryor... there's reason yet to carry on, to rage and to rabblerouse, and to laugh heartily when not brooding darkly.
At any rate, a new documentary, 'American: The Bill Hicks Story' is soon to be released. It looks fantastic and the time is just right for it. Here's the trailer.
This answers the question, "What would an ad made by a drug-fueled Stanley Kubrick featuring dogs jumping in slow motion look like?"
