Like you, we enjoy TV commercials that make us laugh out loud. An Eighth Muse favorite right now is Geico’s “Do Dogs Chase Cats?” and All State’s “Mayhem Man”, which The Chicago Tribune recently wrote about. Hey, who knew insurance could be funny? Or creative – actually, the ad agency behind the spots are the [...]
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Musings: Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Filed Under: Musings Tagged With: Akiva Schaffer, Always Open with David Koechner, Amy Poehler, Andy Samberg, Arrested Development), Ben Silverman, Bill Cosby, Billy Crystal, Bob Newhart, Carl Reiner, Cheers, Chelsea Handler, CollegeHumor.com, Danny McBride, David Koechner, DumbDumb Productions, Frasier, Funny or Die.com, George Carlin, James Burrows, Jason Bateman, Jimmy Fallon, Jonathan Winters, Jorma Taccone, Justin Halpern, Kristen Wiig, Lily Tomlin, Lorne Michaels, Marc Maron, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Matt Stone, Michael Patrick King, National Cartoonist Society, Neil Simon, Paul Provenza Two Broke Girls, Richard Pryor, Richard Thompson, Sarah Silverman, Steve Martin, The Book of Mormon: The Musical, The Coen Brothers, The Lonely Island, The Office, Tina Fey, Trey Parker, Ugly Betty, Whitney Cummings, Whoopi Goldberg, Will & Grace, Will Arnett, Will Ferrell, Will Forte, WTF With Marc Maron
Drunk Stoned…A Lively Reminder of Forgotten Era
A hip, subversive, and often bawdy publication, the National Lampoon magazine was – popularity wise – The Onion of it’s time, bursting onto the scene in April 1970 before delivering a career-launching theater production (Lemmings), sending key contributors to a then-emerging Saturday Night Live, and releasing a comedy classic in Animal House. But like a [...]
Filed Under: Books / Fiction, Books / Non-Fiction, Illustration, Interviews, Magazines, Movies, Radio Tagged With: Animal House, Anne Beatty, Breakfast Club, Brian McConnachie, Bruce McCall, Caddyshack, Charles Rodrigues, Christopher Cerf, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Deadwood, Doug Kenney, Edward Gorey, Fred Graver, George Carlin, Gerry Sussman, Ghostbusters, Heavy Metal magazine, Henry Beard, Jeff Greenfield, John Hughes, John Weidman, Josh Karp, Kindergarten Cop, Lemmings, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Miami Vice, Michael Gross, Michael O'Donoghue, National Lampoon magazine, NYPD Blue, P.J. O'Rourke, Peter Kaminsky, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Pretty in Pink, Rick Meyerowitz, Rob Hoffman, Ron Barrett, Ron Hauge, Sam Gross, Saturday Night Live, SCTV, Sean Kelly, Sesame Street, Spinal Tap, Square Pegs, Tedd Mann, The Mona Gorilla, The New Yorker magazine, The Onion, The Simpsons, Tony Hendra
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