‘Newsweek’s’ Snobbish Stand-Up Slam
by Jeffrey JenaStand-up comedy is the least respected of all the performing arts. As if being a stand-up comic weren’t hard enough; the years of being judged by every person who owns a liquor license and a microphone, driving six hours to a non-existent gig, begging moronic agents and managers who are looking for a “new, original and exciting” talent to come out to see your show only to be asked why you aren’t more “Seinfeld-ish.” On top of that it takes years to develop an act and find your voice on stage. There are child actors, child musicians, tiny dancers and even I would guess a few very young working writers, but no child comics. Why? Because stand-up comedy is the only experiential-based art form. Kids can tell “jokes” but they can’t do stand-up. Stand-up comedy, really good stand-up comedy has evolved from joke telling into a personal narrative dialogue with the audience.
Still, every now and then some elitist hack with a degree from the right college and the proper connections gets a job at a failing weekly magazine and decides to take a shot at you and your profession, feeling they are qualified to judge this art form because they know how to laugh and talk. This is rarely if ever done with other art forms. Seriously folks, when is the last time you saw an article about actors who can’t act, dancers who can’t dance, painters who can’t paint or pointless “performance artists.” Yet, about every six months some “critic” declares a number of famous comics “not funny.”
Ms. Sarah Ball of the soon defunct Newsweek is the latest to declare some great comics “not funny.” In her article she lists 12 acts and gives snarky put downs of their talents. I found it interesting that Ms. Ball’s list is mostly west coast, politically conservative/moderate comics. Apparently if you are from New York and ultra-liberal Ms. Ball finds you hilarious!
Topping her list is every elitist favorite comedy punching bag Larry the Cable Guy. Larry’s sin seems to be he is a little too lowbrow for Ms. Ball, whom I am sure worships at the altar of urinator Larry David, and christophobe Sarah Silverman. There are a couple of folks working at the top of the intellectual chart. When talking about Dane Cook (I admit, not my favorite) she heaps praise on Louis C.K. (a guy I happen to also enjoy) who also tends towards the scatological for his humor.
Here is another thing that annoys me worst than Barney Frank, several times Ms. Ball demeans comics for being less than original and yet in her writing she uses a number of “stock” lines, clichés and banal comments. She also works for a magazine which recently selected a cover picture of Sarah Palin that was borrowed from a shoot for another magazine and used without contextual reference.
Ms. Ball also apparently hasn’t seen some of the comics she lists in some time. For Emo Phillips she uses an outdated photo, (again Newsweek using a photo out of context!) and critiques the vocal and delivery style he was using in the 90’s. Artists grow and change Ms. Ball; you might want to catch Bob Goldthwaite sometime this century too! Her total critique of Jeff Dunham is that he is a ventriloquist, a comedy form she declared “went out of vogue in the Eisenhower era.” So did unbiased journalism and accurate reporting, Ms. Ball, but I’ll save that for another blog. Ventriloquism is experiencing a great revival outside elitist circles with Ronn Lucas and Terry Fator being two of the top draws in Las Vegas. While Jay Johnson, Jeff Dunham and Dan Horn wow audiences across the country. It might do Ms. Ball good to get out of Manhattan once in awhile and see what us rubes are doing out here in Flyoverland.
There are a lot of comics who I don’t find funny but I realize that my taste in comedy is skewered by my values, faith, politics and a number of other factors. I would never declare Bill Maher “not funny.” Though I find his drug addled ramblings repulsive at times, I realize that a number of equally intelligent folks find him hysterical. I might say I find his humor “baffling” or call him an “alleged” comedian but to declare him “not funny” isn’t fair to Bill or his fans.
People like different things, that’s why they put numbers on horses at the track. I would expect an open and fair minded progressive person like Ms. Ball to be a little more…what’s that word? Tolerant!
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Missed Ball.
Game over.
Keep up the good work, Jeff.
She's just jealous because Larry the Cable Guy is more feminine than she is.
It's not that I disagree with who's on the list, it's who they left off:
Sandra Bernhart
Louie Anderson
Margaret Cho
Janeane Garofalo
In what universe are any of the above funny?
Dan Whitney GENUINELY makes me laugh. And without eff-bombs, too!
Silly stuff. I HEAR myself laughing when I watch "Larry the Cable Guy."
To many other "comics" can't do this to me. Paying the $30 cover? What a con…
You're absolutely right – funny is a matter of personal opinion. What's funny to me might not be funny to you.
Some humor is low brow and some is a bit more intellectual. But that doesn't mean the low brow stuff is less funny.
There's a reason why Nascar is the most popular spectator "sport", but I never understood the thrill in watching cars go around in circles.
you are traversing a slippery slope when you declare it wrong to call Dane Cook "not funny." There have to be some sort of standards in criticism. For the most part I agree with your assessment but, c'mon, you think it unfair to call a tremendous frat boy hack like Mr. Cook, unfunny? So it is equally unfair to say Gigli is a bad film because some people might like it? that it is wrong to say Jessica Simpson is a bad actress because people that know nothing about acting think she's good? what about Megan Fox, we can't say she appears vapid and lost on screen because someone out there might think she is this generation's Streep?
Can we not call great actors or comedians like a Bill Hicks or Cate Blanchet great because others might think they suck?
Again, I agree with the majority of your assessment and understand comedians are given a raw deal in what is a notoriously difficult career to shape… but it has to ok to call out someone like Dane Cook.
Stand-up comedy is the least respected of all the performing arts.
I thought it was mimes?
Jay Leno also made this list for the simple reason that he is not David Letterman. Jay makes me laugh a lot, so does that mean I have no sense of humor? Also the Jeff Dunam crack was stupid and I immediately thought of Terry Fator who happens to be the most successful TV talent show winner ever. Yep ventriloquism is dead all right.
Bizzaro World.
I have to agree. Dane Cook is the opposite of funny….
You owe me a keyboard….
I would think someone who uses a character from one of the best Simpsons episodes ever would agree with me on the Dane Cook argument. thanks.
"mime is money"
"I would expect an open and fair minded progressive person like Ms. Ball to be a little more…what’s that word? Tolerant!"____You also left out diverse. I'm still wrapping my head around their diversity schtick. I guess it only pertains to height, race, gender, etc. as long you are in agreement with their ideology lock step…____
The only human being that is a worse hack is Uwe Boll…..I'd like to see Dane Cook and Uwe Boll in a knife fight, it'd be a win-win for everyone….
[insert video of a mime snorting milk out his nose]
[the mime is still laughing his a$$ off....]
It's the same problem that actors have. If they're good at it, they make it look easy. Every hack thinks they could probably do it.
I do think it's interesting that so many "journalists" have been trying to make with the funny lately. Remember after Dick Cheney accidentally shot his hunting partner and Dana Milbank went on Imus wearing a bright orange hunting vest? It wasn't funny, but he seemed to be pretty amused.
But the left is coming very exceedingly unhinged. They are completely intolerant of anything or anyone that steps outside their little red box. And what's really gross is they like to point the finger at conservatives and tell them to get a sense of humor. But only when a 60+ year old pervert is making sexual jokes about their daughters. All other jokes, like the many humorous takes on the O-bow-ma are Not Funny! (add feminine stomp of dainty foot)
Personally I LOVE the Constitution on Larry's arm.
That is priceless!
Dane Cook is usually meh to me, but his rant about atheists flipping out over saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes is great.
Saying Larry the Cable Guy is not funny, but Janeane Garafallo is…well, its kind of like saying Fox News is biased but MSNBC is fair and balanced.
Now, Keith Olbermann, there's a comic genius! ("I don't care who y'are, that's funny right there.")
Jeff Dunham's characters of Walter, Peanut, Achmed The Dead Terrorist, and Jose Jalapeno (On A Stick) are hilarious. I've seen him live several times, and he's a genuinely nice guy.
almost right, Larry makes at least 30 million a year. She's upset that she can barely make cab fare.
Her total critique of Jeff Dunham is that he is a ventriloquist, a comedy form she declared “went out of vogue in the Eisenhower era.”
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Bleh!! Jeff Dunham is FARCKIN' BRILLIANT!! Achmed the Terrorist ranks just behind Walter in terms of two of the best characters on the funny-bones circuit
Dane Cook lacks an immense amount of talent. I cannot imagine that anyone finds him funny, but then again, I cannot imagine that anyone would vote for Fidel Castro for Prime Minister of Venezuela.
Normally I would agree, but Cook is such an over used target these days. I saw a recent stand-up he did and it was pretty funny. He did a whole bit on the hate mail he has received in recent years and I thought his response to it was honest and humorous. If you haven't seen his act recently– maybe check it out before you heap scorn on him.
Dunham is honestly funny, very funny. Damn little out ther is anymore.
I tried to watch friday night standup last week, and it was so NOT funny…
And I'm sure Larry the Cable Guy is loads richer than she is, another mortal sin if you're conservative.
Agreed, he's one of my favorite working comics.
He came into town last March and I almost went to see him. But, after having recorded and watched all his specials dozens of times, I knew I wasn't going to see any new material (it was the Christmas tour). And at $60 a pop (there's three of us), I decided to skip it.
I eagerly await his next stop in town.
Agreed.
Jeff Dunham is to comedy what Al Franken is to stupid.
Get 'er done!
I do enjoy his antics with Achmed. "I kill you!"
You don't understand how their political system is set up. They will vote for him, or else.
A friend of mine once commented that saddam won with 99.9% of the vote, and he wondered who exactly had the balls to vote against him.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least if he ordered 1,000 people to vote against him for show, and then had them tortured and killed anyway.
Jessica Simpson and Megan Fox are actresses?
I guess I was too busy staring at their butts to notice.
I believe Ms. Ball is what one "unfunny" comedian would call a "boring, pathetic, worthless, uptight, rich, white, commie-liberal tofu-farting fairy." And I would agree.
Any "worst comedians" list w/out Bill Maher (horrible at this point even if you agree w/him politically) and Margaret Cho (maybe the WORST stand-up I've ever heard) is every bit as worthless as, well, Newsreek itself at this point…
How can you put Louie Anderson on your list? He's hilarious, plus he had a family cartoon years ago.
Dane Cook is so the Anti Matter of funny that if he actually said anthing funny the universe would implode.
To Ms. Ball's article, all I can do is quote Achmed … I kill you.
I like a lot of stand-up comedy, though I'm not too partial to comics who use musical accompaniment (guitars, usually). But, how's that old saying go, "Dying is easy, comedy is hard."
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Ace-O-Spades would agree about Margaret Cho.
And probably the rest, too.
I don't care for some of Larry's overuse catchphrases, however I find him to be pretty funny in his actual jokes that he tells.
Same with Dane Cook…somewhere between his Comedy Central stuff and up to when he started doing terrible movies, he struck just the right balance between repeatable catchphrases and funny stories. I then watched Vicious Circle and it was like watching a different comedian…he hit rock star status and suddenly he didn't seem to be working all that hard at his routine anymore because legions of screaming girls would buy his tickets anyways. Those types of comics generally drop off the face of the earth and end up on "Best Week Ever" or some other equally horrible E!/VH1 show afterwards (supposing VH1 is willing to have a time slot that isn't related to Flava Flav).
I can see where people come from when they say Dane Cook is just frat boy humor, and Jeff Dunham is using old schtick…but it boils down to this. Do they make me laugh? Cook does. Dunham does. Bill Hicks did. Maybe not all the time, but their humor is coming from someone they think is funny, and they transfer that to the audience. (Maybe not Hicks so much, but I find the way he mixed his bitterness with hopeful optimism for the future very inspiring)
Bill Maher, Margaret Cho, Jeanne Garafalo…they traded "humor" for "rage" a long time ago, thinking being angry and insulting is good enough.'
And I'm sorry, anyone who goes to a Gallagher show and DOESN"T have a good time needs to check under their bed for a pod…
Before Dane Cook hit rock star status me and my wife really liked him as he actually had funny stories/subjects to talk about. He also gave off that "I can be one of your drinking buddies" vibe that makes him easy to watch…sort of like a less-unneccesarily-vulgar version of Dave Attell. Once he realized 20-something girls were going pay for his tickets/merchandise regardless of whether he was funny or not, he stopped trying to work at his jokes.
No No
…." I Keeel You "
Honestly, Bill Maher's an enigma for me as a conservative. I really do like politically incorrect comedy like Nick DiPaolo and Jim Norton, and Bill Maher's just a liberal version of those two for me.
Where I lose respect immensely for Maher is when he got the impression that he actually knew something about politics and started taking himself incredibly seriously.
Bill mocks conservatives like Nick DiPaolo mocks liberals. Granted I don't agree with Bill politcally and find him to be rather pedantic and arrogant (maybe that's just his shtick), but as an aspiring comedian myself I respect him for doing what he thinks is funny and that's really all that matters to a comedian.
hahaha…Spinal Tap FTW.
I'm gonna steal that
LOL
Also, this list should really be called "12 Comedians that Sarah Ball Does Not Like" because unless a comedian truly sucks, when you say they're unfunny it just means you don't like them or their style of humor.
Sandra Bernhard is perfect at the top of your "unfunny" list. Her early years in school and stand-up was here in Arizona, so I saw her "act" several decades before she became bizarro gal-pal to Madonna and was picked out of obscurity to be in the film King of Hearts. She was dreadful then, and has actually gotten worse with her over-the-top anger and angst. I recall that at one club I saw her perform at (I saw her at several in the 1980s), she was being moderately heckled by a guy in the audience and Berhard had a flipped-out rampage-meltdown on stage for several minutes. That silenced the whole audience… it was embarrassing and uncomfortable.
Her life is a pathetic, angry mess… declaring that she hates Sarah Palin so much that she wants her to be gang-raped by street blacks goes beyond "edgy" and into "psycho" comedy. Some libs DO find violent diatribes against conservatives hilarious, which is even more disturbing.
I think one of the funniest "blue collar" comics around is Bill Engvall. I love his easy-going routines about his family and his kids. Pure gold and real-life.
ROFL!
A mishap was averted, thankfully, involving my sipping from my cup of coffee while I was reading…
I thought Obama was hilarious when he ninja-killed that fly during an interview in the White House (he was pretty pleased with himself, too).
Thank you! Louie is one of our local boys (St. Paul) and when he is town he calls into KQRS – a major market drive-time show. He is consistently hilarious – and all off-the-cuff. Not to mention he is kind-hearted and sweet. Maybe being able to see that side of him doing live, casual chat made me like him better as a comedian. Anyway – now a loyal fan.
I did like him Coming to America.
DUDE HOW COULD YOU NOT TAKE THE OBVIOUS SHOT -MS BALL's there is some potty humor jokes in their somewhere…
although I was left wondering if perhaps ms ball was just a jilted lover of some ex comedian getting her revenge – I read the article those who don't do 'anything often whine and complain about those who are doing something… – I believe ms ball(s is one of thoooooooooose new york upper manhatten snobs who's mask of botox prevents her from enjoying anything that is funny… (WHAT ARE HER QUALIFICATIONS – Seriously she's a hack writer – what's she know of funny?)
awesome read…
thanks
Dear 09
Do you find Mr Olbermann funny "haha" or funny "weird/can't look away like a traffic accident?"
I find he can bounce between the two in a moments notice
I happen to know Jeff. He is funny, smart and a true gentleman. He built his own helicopter! How's that for smart!
Sandra Bernhart…where to start? Normally I wouldn't go after someone because of how they look, but I think it's relevant here. This woman is so bitterly angry about her own appearance that it bleeds through everything she does. Sarah Palin has everything that Sandra wants– not just a pretty face, but a happy life with a loving family. So Sarah becomes the enemy and nothing is off limits.
Good job, Jeff.
Was this an editorial, or an actual piece? Just like beauty, a sense of humor is all about the "tastes" of a particular person.
Dane Cook isnt as bad as some people make him out to be. He was THE comic for a time, so now he seems to be the comedic whipping boy for some people.
Greg Giraldo is a great latino comic that you would never guess is latino except for the name, because he never does racial comedy. I think he may be left of center, but he is hilarious.
Ben Bailey is a great comic as well. Not neccessarily for the content, but for his delivery.(Yes, he's the Cash Cab guy)
Norm Macdonald is another one with a unique kind of delivery. I haven't heard his stand-up in years, but that man is a masterful storyteller. If you like stories that are funny, despite having no punchline. Some people don't find him that funny though.
IMHO, 5 more who are/were not funny ever:
George Carlin
Richard Belzer
Richard Lewis
Patton Oswalt
Zach Galifiankis
what do they have in common as well? all very leftwing.
Bob Goldthwaite? Really?
The comedian I am most hoping for her and the other leftists of her kind to meet is Sam Kinison.
LOL…and as I enjoy laughing out loud. Thanks Edski!
My least funny comic would be Bill Maher. Its not the politics. There's plenty of very funny lefty comics, its his delivery that's so god awful. He just seems to have no sense of comedic timing.
Larry the Cable Guy, in comparison, has great delivery and timing, and can react off the cuff very well. Maybe he's low brow but as pointed out, plenty of lefty favorites are low brow, just low brow on the left.
I don't particularly care about someone's politics in comedy that much, what matters is… do they make me laugh?
Good list, sans Carlin. I always thought him one of the funniest comedians ever until the last years of his life when he turned bitter and hateful. The game's over when you start taking every comedy bit you utter seriously.
I saw a Jeff Dunham show…over ten years ago. Back when I was just some teenager, and he was performing in some rinky-dink day-time family-friendly venue…And I still remember a joke or two form that routine! The man has some talent.
I love stand up. I love it so much my pick for date night is the literal hole in the wall club we have here simply because I think it's nice we even have one. (Darn it, I missed it when Hal Sparks was here).
I was a Jeff Dunham snob. Until I got busted laughing my arse off at him.
And I'm pretty sure having Newsweek pan him makes Larry the Cable Guys year. That and counting his millions and millions of dollars.
Shout out to the old Borscht Belt comedians and the old Carson regulars: Henny Youngman, Don Rickles (still a scream), George Gobel…
Good times.
the trhee femonazis are funny when they try to convince us that they are humans born on earth. See Men in Black when 'J' is shown the screens of other famous aliens (off earth, not illegals).
Keith Olberdork (also known as Obersturmbannfuhrer) is yet another alien.
Newsweek sucks….
I will come out of this particular closet and admit that I hate when people bag on Carrot Top. He's the 'Faux News' of stand-up comedy – people insult him because, well, they hear everyone else insult him.
He's actually very funny … for a prop comic. And I've always liked him, and shied away from admitting it to people because they always react the same way. He's just not 'cool' to like. But he frequently makes me laugh with one of his goofy props. It's just a pity that the decades of Carrot Top abuse apparently drove him absolutely insane, so he buffed up and started wearing makeup.
I have come to the conclusion that Ms Ball is upset and has listed Larry The Cable Guy at the top of her list is because he makes a heck of a lot more cash than she does. He sells out every venue he performs in and appeals to just about everyone. He is what they call real comedy, I will admit I wouldn't take children to go and see him but that's not his audience. I've heard he gives a lot to charity as well. She's just jealous because more people would rather go and see Larry than read her boring columns.
Touche!
Just saw her picture. What an ugly, ugly woman.
Carrot Top is the perfect example of how subjective comedy is. Politically, socially, interpersonally, spiritually – the best humor always has a way of coming to the front. Mr. Top is not my kind of comedian. His delivery grates on me. And prop humor is not in my interest. But whenever I run across him just talking on some show, the guy has the smarts to be able to bring the truth to a joke. And when the truth intersects with the laugh, it's golden, no matter who says it.
I know know you're thinking it. Yes, I have laughed at some things Garafolo has said. And I wasn't being snarky … for some of it .
TThanks for blogging about this. I knew when I saw the list it was just a shot at anyone the author considered moderate or right leaning. The dead giveaway was Yakoff Smirnoff (sp.). He hasn't even really worked nationally since the 80's has he? I know he works in Branson and is a big draw there, but it's not like he's someone who is a daily household name today.
It was a hit piece. Now they want to tell us who is funny and who is not.
I mean come on.
Whoopi Goldberg?
Janene Barfalo?
Joy Behar?
Rosie O'Donnell?
The list goes on and on of unfunny "left" comedians.
He wasn't hilarious, he was A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
//sarc
What was really hilarious was watching the press orgasmically mess their pants over it. Mind-bendingly funny.
I think Patton Oswalt is very funny. But I've only seen his stand-up once. I thought he was hilarious in the Reno 911 movie.
I also thought Carlin was hilarious in the first half of his career. There comes a point in their lives when comedians think back on all their gigs as their 'body of work' and start taking themselves seriously … which obviously short fuses their comedy.
Another leftist who knows nothing about anything political is Louis Black, but I think he's very funny most of the time. Totally wrong politically. Completely ill informed. But very funny.
Yep, you're right, they were in blissful awe… but P.E.T.A. was pretty annoyed at him.
"The prince of Soul-Glo work…..pfft"
Agree with you and would add Jon Stewar Leibowitz to the list, sans Carlin.
It's hard to laugh when your first job is circling the drain.
God, Kinison was the man, I still listen to is CD's. I seen his one of his last shows in OKC, before he was killed.
Comedy is Zen.
You can't quantify or qualify it.
Comedy IS.
Everyone who thinks southpark sucks is an idiot in my book, and the irony is I don't like "all in the family." I thought all in the family was too cruel and, yes, offensive.
Dunham has some brass balls, never liked larry the cable guy, but because I don't like him doesn't mean he doesn't have a big draw. My big brother, who has many of the same tastes that I do happens to like larry quite a bit (though the schtick is growing old after a few years, as it always does) I love Ron White, cuz he has my sorta sense of humor.
I'm a story teller, and ron is a story teller, he's less about a schtick than about the story (though he uses the scotch drinking drunk thing,with a long southern drawl thing, I guess that's his character.) I love long stories with several small payoffs, and closing with a great irony.
That's the stuff I like. One liners, and observational comics don't do it for me.
I must admit, I like carrot top, (pre-blatantly gay carrot top, I mean really dude? whats with the eye liner, and rouge?) and howy mandel.
I'm rambling. out.
"I cannot imagine that anyone would vote for Fidel Castro for Prime Minister of Venezuela."
—Rufus you wouldn't be channeling Greg Gutfeld would you?? LOL!!
If you shoot a mime, is that considered a crime or performance art?
Sam Kinison on world hunger (contains foul language):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0q4o58pKwA
To me, Carlin's comedy was rarely of the "laugh out loud" variety. It was clever and entertaining, but it produced wry grins over belly laughs.
Newsweek?……. is the recession still over?
Ms Ball is perfect for that rag. She gets to be there with that nutjob Sally Quinn who writes about religion, something she has absolutely no clue about..
"Funny" to me died with Brother Dave Gardner, Justin Wilson and Jerry Clower. When I want to really laugh I bring out the old Andy Griffith's "What it was is football" and "The story of Romeo and Julliet"…..or the old Bill Cosby records. THAT'S FUNNY!!
I've never heard of those discussed here
Mr. Jena, while you might refrain from declaring Bill Maher "not funny", but I won't . Bill Maher is a seriously unfunny piece of s**t that shouldn't be allowed to stand on a stage in a North Dakota Indian casino.
But Newsweek apparently trying to reposition itself as Vanity Fair Lite? Now that's funny.
No, mimes are the least respected of all park pests; below plague carrying squirrels, diarrhetic pigeons and panhandlers with severe haliatosis.
Funny?
Gabriel Iglesias…
Pikachu has the Latino down COLD…everything Mencia or Lopez wishes they were…
Its like being back in the South Valley in Albuquerque again…before the gangs, drugs, and drive-bys…
I know all those dudes he mimics in his act…and their abuelas…
And with due apologies to Pokemon…"GO, PIKACHU!"
Margaret Cho was funny 15 years ago before she went all angry and left wing…
Garafalo was funny 15 years ago before…
Maher was funny 15 years ago before…
Lopez was funny 15 years ago before…
Mr Iglesias is indeed a funny guy!
Would anyone hear it?
Not just that, but I have it from my husband and an Iraqi girl that was his interpreter that the Iraqis absolutely LOVE Jeff Dunham, including Achmed the Dead Terrorist. My mother's family in Poland was watching him on the Internet and think he's hilarious. That, to me, means he's funny because he crosses cultural lines.
I absolutely LOVE Dunham. Just watching him handle himself, Peanut and Jose Jalapeno on a Stick is a wonder to behold!
Louis Black is a loud and proud Socialist, and still hates the current powers that be, he said it in one of his albums, then follewed it up with saying nobody knows the real meaning of it.
Awesome thing is, even with all that, he still made it out to Iraq for a Christmas tour. Great guy, came out to smoke with us and sign some pictures and chat with the guys that didn't make it into the show.
Does anyone even read Newsweek? I bet if all the conservatives stopped the commentary on their articles, they're entire revenue stream would disapear.
Funny like …A Fish Called Wanda…
Jamie Lee Curtis: I'm sorry about my brother, Ken. I know he's insensitive. He's had a hard life. Dad used to beat him up.
Michael Palin: Good.
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