Oct 20, 2018 | Comedians, Television
There have been a few times when I’ve sworn I was done with Bill Maher because he did something incredibly anti-science on his show, like his dangerous anti-vaccination remarks or the interview with the “doctor” who claimed he had an AIDS cure made...
Sep 30, 2018 | Comedians, Picture of the Day, Television
Three years ago, I wrote a piece about Elayne Boosler, one of the seminal comics of the 1970s and 1980s. Since then, I’ve followed Elayne on YouTube as she has posted clips from some of the many standup specials she did on cable, and I just ordered her new boxed...
Sep 28, 2018 | Comedians, Movies
With all the standup comedy specials populating Netflix these days, you’d think someone in Hollywood would study them to figure out how to do a movie about comedians. I don’t mean putting several of them on stage and filming them a la “The Original...
Sep 26, 2018 | Comedians, Picture of the Day
Wanna see something creepy? Watch this final scene from episode three of season seven of “The Cosby Show,” which echoes the Spanish Fly bit he did years earlier on an album of standup material [thanks to Kevin Brackett for the...
