The solar eclipse across America tomorrow, August 21, is the first to occur in 38 years, and another won’t appear again until 2024. So review all the cosmological geometry here provided by National Geographic and get your ISO 12312-2 compliant solar shade...

2017

Aug

LEWIS & GRIFFIN By Eric Gould

Comedian Jerry Lewis passed away today, Sunday, August 20, at his home in Las Vegas. He was 91. Lewis’ influence was far and wide, including in this 2010 Family Guy tribute to his Count Basie “Blues in Hoss' Flat” bit from his 1961 comedy, The Errand Boy...

2017

Aug

TAKING BOTH SIDES By Eric Gould

CNN’s The History of Comedy is focusing in on political comedy this week, and one of their early citations is the late Pat Paulsen, who ran for president in 1968 as a gag as part of his stint on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour... that’s evident here in a performance art-like split screen of him answering a question two ways...

2017

Aug

PERFECT LEFTOVERS By Eric Gould

In case you missed it, this week marked the 24th anniversary of the season finale of ABC’s odd-couple sitcom Perfect Strangers... The Leftovers had a brief joke in Season One which started out as a writer’s room gag – the 2% of the world’s population gone in the rapture-like disappearance of the Sudden Departure also included the cast of Perfect Strangers...

2017

Aug

GLEN CAMPBELL 1936-2017 By Eric Gould

Country singer Glen Campbell died Tuesday, August 9 in Nashville, six years after his Alzheimer's disease diagnosis... Campbell performs here in 1968 on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour where he became a popular regular and took over as a host of the brother's summer replacement series...

2017

Aug

LIGHT MY FIRE By Eric Gould

In case you haven’t heard, Game of Thrones Princess Daenerys Targaryen had just about enough of the Lannister army last Sunday and unleashed one of her now full-grown dragons. Things quickly increased in temperature...

2017

Jul

PBS’S ‘AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE’ INTRODUCED AUDIENCES TO SAM SHEPARD IN 1984 By Eric Gould

Most fans likely knew Sam Shepard (1943-2017) for acting performances in The Right Stuff and Black Hawk Down... Probably less known though, is Shepard’s early career and legacy as a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright...

2017

Jul

'VIKINGS' MINUS VIKING By Eric Gould

History Channel has released its trailer for Season 5 of Vikings at the recently finished Comic Con – the new season without its lead character Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel) who came to the end of the line last year...

2017

Jul

SOME THINGS GO HAND IN HAND By Eric Gould

Here’s the pirate version of The Daily Show video posted to twitter showing new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci’s hand gestures, which veer very close to those of the President, when shown side by side. We presume the mimicry is a non-verbal way of emphasizing the commander in chief’s message, but a similar hairstyle will not be following. —Eric Gould

2017

Jul

IN MEMORY OF THE MAYOR OF QUAHOG By Eric Gould

Family Guy has released a tribute reel in memory of former Batman! star Adam West (1928-2017), who played a monumentally self-effacing version of himself as cartoon mayor of Peter Griffin’s fictional hometown of Quahog, Rhode Island... Family Guy is going ahead with three more episodes that West had already recorded parts for...

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