Eric Golub is Brooklyn born, Long Island raised, and has lived in Los Angeles since 1990. He received his Bachelors degree from the University of Judaism, and his MBA from USC.
He has been a stockbrokerage professional since 1994. He began blogging on March 11th, 2007, and has been inflicting his world view on his unfortunate readers since then. He blogs about politics Monday through Friday and about football and other human-interest items on weekends. His blog, the Tygrrrr Express, won the 2007 Bloggers Choice Awards for most passionate fan base.
He likes his terrorists the way he likes his taxes...dead.
He currently has three fatwas against him: One from a Palestinian group, one from the Daily Kos, and one from the National Organization for Women.
He wants you to all to know that if he ever says anything that offends you in any way, you probably deserved it.
After years of dating liberals, he is currently dating a Republican. Both of their families are pleased about this.
Eric Golub
Dave, You’re Fired
by Eric Golub
Dear Mr. Letterman,
Several weeks ago I wrote you a heartfelt letter expressing my concern for the direction that your show was headed. I am sad to see that you have not only not reined in the nastiness, but that your spin cycle is now on viciousness overload.
Mr. Letterman, this is not about your liberalism. I was a fan of yours for 20 years, and put politics aside as my fellow Republicans abandoned your show in droves. I defended you sir, and I am now being forced to eat my words. (more…)
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Conan O’Brien: Class Act and Worthy ‘Tonight Show’ Successor
by Eric GolubAlthough I rarely find any interest in the entertainment industry, I am very glad to see Conan O’Brien become the head of the “Tonight Show.” His ascension to the throne continues a tradition that Johnny Carson brought forth and Jay Leno continued. The new host of the “Tonight Show” is a nice guy. (Steve Allen was as well, but many would consider he and Jack Paar to be less relevant since they came before Carson. I avoid this debate since, again, I am not in the industry.)
Yes, Johnny Carson preferred that David Letterman get his job (I watch Letterman, although less so lately), but the network saw Leno as the logical heir. Letterman is just too acid-tongued. It makes for some fun comedy, but the “Tonight Show” is about harmless and lighthearted fun. It made sense that Craig Kilborn, who was harder-edged than Conan, followed Letterman. Craig Ferguson, like Letterman, let’s his liberal political ideology affect his monologues. (more…)
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Review: Corked
by Eric Golub
I had the pleasure of seeing an independent film named “Corked,” a movie that satirizes the pomposity and smugness of the culture of Sonoma Wine Country.
As somebody who does not drink alcohol, does not go to independent films, and does not drive my car outside the West side of Los Angeles (it’s an old car), I forayed into Downtown LA to watch a “mockumentary“ where adult beverages were served. (more…)
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A Nation of Celebrity Twit(terer)s
by Eric Golub
Not since the creation of the Huffington Post and the Daily Kos has something so useless entered American culture with such fanfare. Americans are all atwitter about Twitter. It was bad enough when people began chatting with total strangers online about their private lives. Then the blogosphere exploded and we all moved one step closer to becoming the nation of Narcissista. Then MySpace and Facebook came along, and everybody felt the need to make every aspect of their lives public.
Look, I admit to being a blogger, and one of the better ones. Yet my blog actually covers issues and events. The following paragraph is what my blog is not about: (more…)
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The Goode, the Bad and the New York Times
by Eric Golub
A new television animation show will be debuting tonight on ABC, and it has the potential to be really “Goode.”
“The Goode Family” is the story of a politically correct family of environmental zealots and there are two reasons I will give this show a chance. First of all, it is created by Mike Judge. While I did not take part in the “Beavis and Butthead” craze, I was an avid fan of “King of the Hill.”
I’m still disappointed that Hank Hill and his friends are leaving after 13 seasons. In the history of television, there will never be a character as cool and incomprehensible as Boomhauer. Grandpa Cotton was also a feisty one. (more…)
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Note to Wanda: Obama and Limbaugh Agree on Same-Sex Marriage
by Eric GolubWanda Sykes has decided to be the latest celebrity to cross the line from comedy into hate speech. Her refusal to let other leftists have all the fun without any social consequences has led her to embrace Ideological Bigotry.
At the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, Ms. Sykes decided to lob verbal grenades at Rush Limbaugh. The leftist ideological bigots that make up much of the mainstream media will offer pathetic and predictable defenses. Inevitable choruses of “she was just making jokes,” and “Rush can dish it out, but he can’t take it” will try to drown out the truth.
This cannot be allowed to happen. (more…)
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Jon Stewart Courageously Defends His Bottom Flank
by Eric GolubIt takes a big man to admit he screwed up and take a principled stand. It takes a phony liberal elitist to apologize for the sake of protecting his television ratings.
Jon Stewart makes Arlen Specter look principled.
Like Pee Wee Herman, Jon Stewart launched his intercontinental ballistic missile, and he could not put the missile back on the launching pad. In his case, the only thing that seeped out was stupidity.
Jon Stewart, for those who are not “trendy,” “hip,” or “cool” (brie-cheese-eating-elitist-snobs according to the Tygrrrr Express dictionary), has a nightly political television show where he presents the news with all the accuracy and fairness of the Jayson Blair Times. (more…)
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Dom DeLuise: Larger than Life
by Eric Golub
The great ones leave us way too soon. Dom DeLuise has left the road on Earth for the big racetrack in the sky.
As a young boy, Burt Reynolds was my hero. Yet every hero needs a sidekick, and Burt Reynolds became as great as he was with considerable comic relief from the equally great Dom DeLuise.
As a favor to the Republican Party, Dom DeLuise helped attempt to deliver a pregnant elephant in “Smokey and the Bandit II.” Yet his hilarity peaked with “Cannonball Run” and “Cannonball Run II.” (more…)
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Celebrity Apprentice: Trump Gets It
by Eric Golub
I have said on more than one occasion that I admire Donald Trump, and that I enjoy watching “the Apprentice,” and “Celebrity Apprentice.” A recent episode I watched reinforced my sentiments.
Yes, Donald Trump likes to do things in grand style. Yes, style is a major part of everything he does. Yet my admiration for Mr. Trump is because when the rubber meets the road, substance wins. In Donald Trump’s world, it is all about merit. He wants the best and brightest. He also wants the toughest. He wants those who work the hardest.
Last year, I praised him for selecting Piers Morgan to be the “Celebrity Apprentice.” Piers was not the most likable (although I thought he was fabulous). He was simply the best. The whole point of “Celebrity Apprentice” is to raise money for charity. Piers Morgan raised the most money. (more…)
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Bea Arthur: Farewell to a Likable Feminist
by Eric GolubComedians have lost a target, and the rest of the entertainment industry has lost a jewel. Bea Arthur is no longer with us. She died peaceably at her home in Los Angeles at the age of 86. As a humanitarian, seeing anybody die is unfortunate, yet I will also miss the jokes.
One of the great comedies of all time was the movie “Airheads,” featuring Brendan Fraser and Adam Sandler. When they end up accidentally taking hostages, they decide to make their demands so ridiculous that they will have the groundwork for an insanity plea. They request a football helmet filled with cottage cheese, a six foot baby bottle, and as the hostage negotiator quizzically and impatiently asks them, “Naked pictures of Bea Arthur?”
Later on in the movie, Judd Nelson shows up as a sleazy record executive willing to say anything to make a deal. He sees the others looking at “stuff, “peers over, and asks, “Say, is that Bea Arthur?” When the guys respond in the affirmative, without missing a beat, he says, “Outstanding. Come here, let’s talk.” (more…)
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Happy 70th Lee Majors
by Eric Golub
Well I’m not the kind to kiss and tell, but I’ve been seen with Farrah…
I’ve never been with anything less than a 9…so fine…
I’ve been on fire with Sally Field, gone fast with a girl named Bo…
But somehow, they just don’t end up as mine…
It’s a death defying life I lead, I take my chances…
I die for a living in the movies and tv…
But the hardest thing I ever do is watch my leading ladies…
kiss some other guy while I’m bandaging my knee…
I might fall from a tall building, I might roll a brand new car…
’cause I’m the unknown stuntman, that made Redford such a star…”
Yes folks, the unknown stuntman turns 70 today. Lee Majors may no longer be the Bionic Man, but he is certainly more of a man than the sissies masquerading as males on television today. (more…)
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From Susan Boyle to Janeane Garofalo
by Eric GolubTrue beauty and true ugliness do not enter the room quietly. They barrel in, and spread quickly. Within hours of each other, extreme beauty and extreme ugliness came in different forms, overwhelming lesser matters.
A woman named Susan Boyle walked onto a stage in a British singing competition. A 47 year old woman who lives with a cat, she drew derisive laughter from the moment people saw her. To describe her as “frumpy” would be generous. People looked at her and thought that she was “ghastly.”
Competitions like the one she was in are for beautiful people. Frumpy people need not apply, and ghastly people should not even be outside. After all, how could society possibly survive if anything other than A-List celebrities were allowed in our living rooms?
Then she began to sing. She chose the song “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Miserables.” From the moment the audience heard her voice, they began cheering wildly. There is beauty, and then there is sheer gorgeousness. This was one of the all time stunningly beautiful vocal performances. If she does get to sing for the Queen, there will be two queens in the room. (more…)
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Killing Hollywood Pirates One by One
by Eric Golub
They plunder. They kidnap. They ransom. They steal. They kill. They are destroying the fabric of world civilization.
They are pirates, and piracy must be stopped.
Yes, Hollywood is filled with terrible individuals that must be reigned in.
Sure, I could blame Somalia for the problem, but they are starving. I blame Hollywood for glorifying pirates everywhere.
Therefore, the solution is to crack down on piracy at the source. (more…)
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Happy Passover, Shannen Doherty
by Eric Golub
On April 12th, 1971, Shannen Maria Doherty entered the world.
April 12th, 2009, came and went, and she and I are still not back together.
The rumors that we are a couple have to stop, and they have to stop now.
If the social conservatives ask, it is because sex before marriage is a sin.
If my parents ask, of course I know she is not Jewish.
Yet deep down I know the truth. She is Jewish. (more…)
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Dear Dave
by Eric GolubDear David Letterman,
I am writing this to you as a man who has been a fan of yours for 25 years, who does not go to sleep until I see the Top 10 List. I cracked up when you came to Los Angeles, and threw tacos at people on the 405 Freeway. I loved it when you sent two guys dressed as bunny rabbits into an H and R Block on April 14th one year, only to see them get screamed at by stressed out accountants. Only you would be crazy enough to have a guy dress as a bear, stop traffic, and ask a New York City cab driver to dance the waltz.
Dave, for a long time you were the best. You joked about “mailing it in,” but I never thought you did. When ABC and CBS were in a tug of war, you told Paul Schaffer, “Can you believe two networks are fighting over this cr@p?”
Yet something has happened to you Dave. You are getting snarkier, and not in a fun way. You are becoming a grumpy old man. Ironically enough, you have made a career out of painting Republican presidential candidates this way. Yes, it was hilarious when you said, “Some people see the glass as half empty or half full. Bob Dole sees the glass as a great place to put his teeth.” Yet politically speaking, you are letting your ideology get in the way of your show. (more…)
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