Stand Up Notes From Flyover Country: Facebook Comment to Folks in the News

Like millions of other Americans I have been caught up in the Facebook/social networking craze. I believe that Facebook is like a near-death experience except your life passes before your eyes one friend request at a time. I have  been trying to “friend” a lot of people in the news, without much success. There’s been no acceptance of my friend requests from President Obama, Dede Scozzafava, Jeremiah Wright and a host of others. So in order to reach them with some timely advice I am posting some comments here. If you are on their Facebook friend list maybe you could pass them along. 

@ Dede Scozzafava – When you try to stand in the middle of the road you get run over. Thanks for showing where you stand when the heat was on. Go stand in the “has-been” line behind Arlen Specter.

@ Barack Obama - Mr. President, if the trip to Dover wasn’t a photo-op or political why take a photographer along? (more…)

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Tags: David Axelrod, Dede Scozzafava, facebook, Fred Thompson, Jeremiah Wright
Posted Nov 4th 2009 at 6:05 pm in Celebrity News, Political Humor, Religion | 25766259 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjena/2009/11/04/stand-up-notes-from-flyover-country-facebook-comment-to-folks-in-the-news/Stand+Up+Notes+From+Flyover+Country%3A+Facebook+Comment+to+Folks+in+the+News2009-11-05+02%3A05%3A08Jeffrey+Jena

Republican Date Night

Newt Gingrich is much taller in person than he is on TV. The lovely Bride of Konig (author of I Wear The Maternity Pants In This Family – www.susankonig.com) and I were invited to a screening of the Newt and Callista Gingrich – produced documentary Ronald Reagan Rendezvous With Destiny the other night, and we got to meet the former Speaker of the House. For some reason I always thought he was on the short, roly poly side. TV’s short, roly poly is, in person, tall, barrel chested and imposing. This is, oddly, the exact opposite of me. On TV I am tall and thin, in person I’m short and fat. 

Reagan, Judy Garland, Henry Fonda, Boris Karloff, Gene Kelly

This rare date night out without the various Spawn of Konig, naturally coincided with a gig for me: as my wife was settling into the Director’s Guild Screening Room on W. 57th. 72nd street performing a comedy sketch with TV host extraordinaire Bill Boggs in his live show Talk Show Confidential. The cue for my sketch with Bill is the end of his Richard Nixon anecdote. Boggs tells a very funny story of being a teen-aged intern in the 1960s on a talk show, and the guest is Richard Nixon. Boggs is assigned to Nixon, to make sure Nixon gets to the set on time. En route, Nixon makes a pit stop. Young Boggs is then confronted with his first major, television talk show crisis: how to tell the imposing former Vice President that he’s not only about to go on camera with his fly open, but it’s a “Grand Mal Unzipping,” the kind where your shirt tail is hanging out of the fly. (more…)

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Tags: Bill Boggs, Callista Gingrich, Dave Konig, Dodgers, I Wear The Maternity Pants In This Family
Posted May 21st 2009 at 4:38 pm in Celebrity News, Politics | 139174One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dkonig/2009/05/21/republican-date-night/Republican+Date+Night2009-05-21+23%3A38%3A49Dave+Konig

Dear Dave

Dear 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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Tags: Bristol Palin, george w. bush, jay leno, jon stewart, Late Nigh comedy
Posted Apr 10th 2009 at 8:03 am in Entertainment, Political Humor, Politics | 101018No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/egolub/2009/04/10/dear-david-letterman/Dear+Dave2009-04-10+15%3A03%3A09Eric+Golub

DVD Review: Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous With Destiny

Hosted and narrated by Newt and Callista Gingrich, “Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous With Destiny” looks at the life and varied careers of America’s 40th President and would make an excellent primer for anyone interested in what made the great man tick and the incredible legacy he left behind. Well paced and insightful, the 90 minute documentary presents a number of brand new interviews with, to name a few, Bill Kristol, Fred Barnes, James Baker, Linda Chavez, Bill Bennett, P.J. O’Rourke, Michael Reagan and Edwin Meese, along with ABC newsman Sam Donaldson, who had the White House beat during Reagan’s two terms, biographer’s Douglas Brinkley and Lou Cannon, and Poland’s Lech Walesa.

While Reagan’s childhood, Hollywood career, and two terms as California Governor are covered, the meat of the focus is on Reagan’s handling of the Cold War. Through the interviews and Reagan’s own handwritten diaries, we’re given an insider’s look at the beat by beat history in what proved to be, much to everyone’s surprise, including many of Reagan’s allies, an astonishingly successful quest to put the Soviet Union on “the ash heap of history.” (more…)

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Tags: Callista Gingrich, cold war, David Bossie, Newt Gingrich, ronald reagan
Posted Mar 11th 2009 at 6:33 am in Reviews | 7722243 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/03/11/dvd-review-ronald-reagan-rendezvous-with-destiny/DVD+Review%3A+Ronald+Reagan%3A+Rendezvous+With+Destiny2009-03-11+13%3A33%3A21John+Nolte

Who’s ‘Like Hitler?’ — Not Rush Limbaugh…

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Tags: DL Hughley, joe the plumber, malcom x, michelle malkin, MLK
Posted Mar 3rd 2009 at 7:17 am in Political Humor, Video | 71346197 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/arachel/2009/03/03/c-packin/Who%27s+%27Like+Hitler%3F%27+--+Not+Rush+Limbaugh...2009-03-03+15%3A17%3A34Alfonzo+Rachel