POTD: Carl Reiner’s Final Performance
For the Picture Of The Day, here is something special — Carl Reiner’s final performance, part of a fan-film version of “The Princess Bride” that Jason Reitman has done.
POTD: The Four Yorkshiremen
For the Picture Of The Day, here’s a pre-Monty Python sketch that John Cleese and Graham Chapman did with Tim Brooke-Taylor and Marty Feldman, from “At Last The 1948 Show.” I just hope kids today can watch this and understand how rough life used to be.
POTD: Penn & Teller & The Flag
This bit the magicians used to do in their Las Vegas show seems like an appropriate Picture Of The Day for July 4th.
POTD: Inside A Hospital COVID-19 Unit
Next time someone tries to tell you some nonsense about COVID-19 being a hoax, or the threat being over, or not needing to wear a mask in public, show them up-close in-hospital reports from CNN’s Miguel Marquez like this one.
POTD: Seth Explains It Again
When my brother Seth ran the US Labor Department, he became very good at analyzing the jobs and unemployment numbers that came in from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here he is on MSNBC with another great analogy for the state of our economy after the BLS released its June jobs report this morning.
Why SNL Needs Randy Rainbow
Here’s Randy Rainbow’s latest topical song parody video, along with my argument for why Lorne Michaels should hire him for “Saturday Night Live.”
POTD: “Play It Again, Bob”
For the Picture Of The Day, here’s the greatest sketch SCTV ever did — “Play It Again, Bob” — with perfect impressions of Woody Allen and Bob Hope by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas.
POTD: SCTV’s “Taxi Driver”
For the Picture Of The Day, here are four-clips-in-one from SCTV circa 1980, with cast members doing impressions of Bob Hope, Woody Allen, Gregory Peck, and Dick Cavett in a scene from “Taxi Driver.”