Recently I went to see Michael McIntyre (for the time being, as we learned in these pages last week, the world's funniest man) perform at the O2 in London in front of 20,000 people. He was greeted as though he were Bono, striding on stage like a rock star looking for his band. Not that he needed one. McIntyre is as comfortable on stage as he is in his kitchen.
From the first gyration of Elvis Presley's hips on "The Milton Berle Show" (way back in the summer of 1955) to the last grab of the crotch during Adam Lambert's Sunday (November 22) night performance at the American Music Awards, musicians and live television have shared a rather contentious relationship. Throughout the years, in attempts to [...]
My Fellow Comedists, Good brother Ron asks, "What is the unfunniest day on the calendar? Is it December 7, a day that will live in infamy? Sept. 11? Aug 6 (Hiroshima)? That list seems distinctly American, but I'm having trouble thinking of others. The Jewish calendar has Tisha B'av, a day to remember the destruction of the Temple. Other historical Jewish catastrophes (the Nuremberg Laws, etc.)...
Newsweek puts together a list of the dozen worst comedians of the last few decades, including Emo Phillips, Andrew Dice Clay, Paulie Shore, Carrot Top, and Gallagher. The memories still burn.
As our poor overburdened president stumbles inexorably, pathetically towards escalating a tragic and unwinnable war in Afghanistan that the military, the Intelligence community, clueless, defensive hawks in his own administration, and the Republican Party all insist on for their own varied and self-serving reasons-- and that the American people are set against-- I recalled a passage from Charles Pierce's...
Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Remember that episode of Celebrity Apprentice in which they raised money for charity by driving cupcake trucks around? Well, now that there actually is a cupcake truck, it’s happening in real life! Sort of. A press release informs us that the five-month-old Cupcake Stop truck was a “pioneer” in the mobile eatery trend (highly debatable) and goes on to tell us that on November 10,...
A comic writes ... As Britain goes the same way as the Roman Empire, things fall apart and the cultural superstructure collapses into the economic base, the Big Question is, what happened to our sense of humour? Or as Ian Burrell asks today in his insightful piece in the Independent , Q: When is a joke not a joke? A: When it's offence. Almost thirty years since alternative comedy came together at the...
Daynah Burnett, writing for AOL Television, is sadly humor-impaired. Today she writes a piece on AOL's front page that would make a fine example of parody, but I think she's actually serious. The subject of her column is comedian Jeff Dunham, a very popular ventriloquist. Let's take a look at this sterling example of liberal angst: These days, it seems you can't turn around without hearing about comedian...
Everybody is reviewing Anne Heller's Ayn Rand and the World She Made , and Jennifer Burns' Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right . Capitalism magazine has a roundup of reviews, but leaves out GQ 's purgative anti-Rand rant (sample line: " Fuck you for turning some of the most open and interesting people I ever met into utopian dickheads"). Quoted in the piece—along...
You really do have to marvel at the career of Victoria Jackson. After several years on Saturday Night Live playing the dumb blonde -- talk about typecasting -- she then went on to make a movie with Andrew Dice Clay. For anyone else, that would have been the low point, the bottom of the barrel. But not for Victoria. She managed to go even lower, now all the way down to spending her time appearing on...
Errata in the Film Version of my Memoirs I know it's a great privilege to have one's memoirs made into a feature film, and I realize that a film needs to have mass appeal and can't have the sophistication of a book, but (and I don't mean to gripe) I have a few complaints about the liberties taken with my work. First, the title. My memoir is called "Wasted Soul." Although the film retained...
Week 1 -Andrew Dice Clay Andrew Dice Clay reveals even more about his experience on The Celebrity Apprentice on a car ride away from Trump Tower. Mail this post
Videos
