NY's Funniest Rabbi (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Andy Rooney had a piece once about how you can analyze people based on most anything. He focused, in that piece, on how people sit. But i think you can look at anything? Take sleep, for example. What are your sleep habits? I believe that most people today don't sleep enough.Are you consistent in your sleep habits? What people that are very consistent generally don't get about less consistent...
The Irish Savant (Free subscription) | yesterday
Andy Rooney is an ancient (90 years old) humourist and political commentator who’s too old to be muffled by the PC Thought Police. Here’s what he said on the "60 Minutes" show a few months back: "I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet...
Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Andy Rooney hates your gifts. "Free is the worst kind of fudge"
Carpetbagger (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
In the meantime, the Bagger has a question he always asked the tools who blab during movies: "Are you going to talk through the whole movie, or just the good parts?"
Repman (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
I feel a little like Andy Rooney right now. Like the venerable 60 Minutes personality, I'm sitting at a desk surrounded by lots of stuff. And, like the curmudgeonly Rooney, I feel inspired enough by some of the stuff to...
Swampland (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... with a gorilla raping a man, or the 1995 skit he kicked around at SNL that would have depicted Andy Rooney, of 60 Minutes fame, contemplating what he could do with Leslie Stahl and a bottle of sedatives. Perhaps the most illustrative moment of Franken mischief comes in 1980, when he agreed to host a series of set-break skits for a Grateful Dead concert at Radio City Music Hall that...
ArtLung Blog (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
I have this concept of a post where in an Andy Rooney-esqe manner I complain about things that get renamed. But really I’m not complaining so much as I think of things with their original name. Some examples of this are: The Del Mar Fair has been renamed “The San Diego Fair” and calling it “San [...]
what if? (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
... "Saturday Night Live," Franken is described among a group of show writers sounding out a spoof of Andy Rooney centered on a sedative pill bottle found in the "60 Minutes" essayist's desk. Franken and fellow writers Norm MacDonald and Jim Downey kick around fictional Rooney responses to the discovery of the bottle. The article quotes Franken putting an edgy twist on the discussion:...
Top Stories from Newser (Free subscription) | 01/01/2009
Give David Denby credit for bravery: He's 65 and the movie critic at the New Yorker , so he “could have written the most concise, insightful, and expertly argued book about snark and still come off like an Internet-age Andy Rooney,” writes Adam Sternbergh of New York Magazine . His book, though, is anything but insightful. Snark: It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation...
