PR News Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- He has his own nightly talk show, a hit comedy series and now this! George Lopez adds another notch to his belt with his new COMEDY CENTRAL Records CD, "Tall, Dark & Chicano" released on Tuesday, December 15.
H O C K E Y D I N O (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
There are comedians that I think are not funny. Yet because of certain roles or events, they are forever deemed funny. For example I don't think Eddie Murphy is funny. I think he's a good actor, and I've enjoyed his movies, but I don't find him really funny. His stand up special was pretty funny about 20 years ago, but what have you done for me lately? I do not think Robin Williams is funny. I did...
The Classic Liberal Blog (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
by SmittyRule 5 Sunday beckons. Stacy is Northbound. Carrie Prejean is officially excused from this week's festivities. It has to do with a picture of her over at American Power. Dog facial licks are out of bounds in the Rule 5 context.First, for t...
JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
In the past you had to go to a store if you wanted to rent or buy a movie. High speed internet access has now made it possible to download movies right off a movie download site. Just about any movie every made can be attained through a movie download site now. Check out these samples.
Middle East Quarterly (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The six Persian Gulf monarchies—Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman—have for decades been undergoing sustained economic development that was matched by little if any political reform. Reform in the Middle East Oil
Riverfront Times | Complete Issue (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Steven Wright is as atypical a comedian as you can imagine. With his morose delivery and downcast, almost uninterested eyes, Wright holds your attention without shouting, gesticulating or apparently even waking up. His is a most detached and minimalist approach to the art of generating laught...
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Gary Burnett, Costorphine: "I'm disappointed that we have had to settle for a point but if you don't score goals then you don't win games. We had a few chance
Philosophers' Playground (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I have this friend who is completely blind. Loves to go to Hooters. They keep the restaurant cold for him so that he can read the waitresses’ t-shirts in Braille. Not only had I died on stage, I was sent to hell. My stomach tightened thinking about comedy and like your tongue searching the empty spot of a lost tooth, it couldn’t stop going there. I was giving academic talks and cracking...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
One of my favorite ways to waste time at work is to read a quote from Steven Wright or Mitch Hedberg, then ask my co-workers to guess which one said it. (We have quite a time down here.) With this quiz, you can play along at home. Take the Quiz: Wright or Hedberg?
Madalina Nicolescu Violist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
This Writing Life (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
November 4, 2009 Ran across these quotes today. "A great story is life, with the dull parts taken out."--Alfred Hitchcock "This is a book that should not be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." --Dorothy Parker "If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?"--Steven Wright All right! I love this stuff. Do you have any great...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Sara says: I'm an archival researcher--I work part-time at Princeton Architectural Press in the editorial department and the other half of the week freelance researching book projects. Last year I researched the subject of Nothing for the author Joan Konner (former Dean of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism). Her book, You Don't Have to be Buddhist to Know Nothing, just came out last week. It's...
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Comic Steven Wright has a peculiar - and very funny - way of observing everyday life. Steven Wright's wry delivery emerged from fear of being onstage without hearing laughter. Wright, appearing Saturday at John Ascuaga's Nugget, relies on quick observations like "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." Or, "A friend of mine has a trophy wife, but apparently it wasn't first...
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
guest post by mikl-em Jerry Seinfeld made his 1981 debut on Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show, so young he looks like he’s could have just come from his Bar Mitzvah. You can see where he’s headed, but he’s definitely not there yet. YouTube has an even earlier clip of Seinfeled on something called “Celebrity Cabaret” in 1977. Definitely [...] This is a blog post from Laughing...
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
I adore Bill Cosby, and obviously so does most of the world considering he was honored with the Kennedy Center’s 12th annual Mark Twain Prize. Comedians Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Sinbad and Steven Wright joined Phylicia Rashad and Malcolm-Jamal Warner to pay tribute to the comedy legend. The ceremony will air on PBS stations Nov. 4. In honor of BIll Cosby let’s enjoy a little bit of...
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