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Monday, September 18, 2006

Posted by Daniel Frank at 9:15 PM

Bob Newhart has a new book coming out called I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!. If I were publishing it, I'd call it either Uh...Hello? or A Little Something...Like This.

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:41 PM

Judging from the premise, the movie Man of the Year was filmed in the past year. Judging from the jokes in the trailer, it was filmed in the late 90's. A "didn't inhale joke" and a "Did not have sex with that woman" joke. If he said "depends on what the definition of is is" and/or made a cigar joke, we'd have the full hack Clinton trifecta.

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Sunday, September 17, 2006

Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:04 PM

Spider-man on the Nintendo Wii.

Also Ken Jennings's self-rejected Superman parody for his book,

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 6:02 PM

Regarding this clip from Night of 100 Stars (vua Evanier):

I was initially amused that there was a number in front of James Earl Jones's name but not in front of Whoopi Goldberg's at minute 2:10 (meaning she wasn't a star) but they gave her one at 3:30.
So how come it's OK for Whoopi to do minstrel but when Warner Brothers' cartoons have minstrel punchlines I have to sit through a ten minute un-fast-forwardable introduction on all four of my DVDs?
After the Bert Williams minstrel segment, Mr. Jones sez "Things have changed...a little" and then we get Whoopi Goldberg doing her act. Is he saying her act is minstrel-show-like?

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Posted by Daniel Frank at 5:55 PM

Inspired by this video of Groucho Marx and Jackie Gleason doing a version of "Absolutely, Mr. Gallagher, Positively, Mr. Shean", I was curious if the Internet had any recording of the original Gallagher and Shean tune. The good folks at Marx-o-rama have three versions here.

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