(c) YouTube - Owen Pallett - Lewis Takes Off His Shirt - Live At Hillside Festival In Guelph
He’s making the rounds right now, because Heartland came out in January, but I don’t think anything can top this performance in a rainstorm in Guelph.
facts are nothing
on the face of things.
I hope this isn’t new, that at some point you’ve taken the time to watch the greatest American comedy routine. This particular performance is from a film, The Naughty Nineties, so Abbott & Costello do the whole thing without a single laugh, but it’s still fall on the floor funny. I don’t need the laugh track to know that.
(Listen closely, and you will hear some muffled laughter. Wikipedia says it’s from the crew who couldn’t hold it in. I don’t blame them.)
But without the laughs, you can revel in the pauses. Costello’s frustration grows in those pauses. It gets funnier in the pauses, but I do wonder, after running it a thousand times, in theatres, on radio, then television, what was it like to do a routine you know kills and not hear a thing from your audience?
It’s still funny. Bud and Lou didn’t need an audience to know that.
(If you too grew up in the Eighties, you might remember this bit from The Animaniacs, undoubtedly my first real introduction to the Who’s on first? conceit: Who’s on stage?)
“Friday Night Lights” Star Moves Onto ABC Pilot
Entertainment Weekly confirmed Sunday that “Friday Night Lights” standout Zach Gilford has been tapped for the cast of ABC’s pilot “Matador.”
The series, which focuses on rival families from the Chicago district attorney’s office and from a powerful law firm, will play, in part, like a modern “Romeo & Juliet.” Gilford will play Alex Galloway, the Romeo component of the story. (via)
This makes me so happy because, I’m sorry, Zach, but I don’t think I can sit through Post-Grad.
Did they forget to tell Ralph that polo isn’t an Winter Olympic sport?
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Of course this already exists. The meme eats its own tail, and the internet is done.
YouTube - The Money Song
I’m watching The Ascent of Money on PBS right now, except I keep singing Monty Python’s Money Song in my head.
I’ve got ninety thousand pounds in my pyjamas / I’ve got forty thousand French francs in my fridge / I’ve got lots and lots of lira and the Deutsche Mark’s getting dearer / And my dollar bills would buy the Brooklyn Bridge
YouTube - Cool Runnings Theatrical Trailer (1993)
CTV, Canada’s official Olympic station, will be airing this movie this week because, as you may remember, it was in Calgary in 1988 where the Jamaican bobsled team debuted. CBC used to play this movie a lot. I think, set half in Canada, starring John Candy as the gruff but good coach, and with jokes about how cold snow is, Cool Runnings qualifies pretty easily as Canadian content.
ETA: Unfortunately, Jamaica failed to qualify for the 2010 Olympics, but Ghana has a skier, Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, headed to Vancouver.
After Ed Ruscha (Norm’s La Cienega on Fire), 2008
by Vik Muniz
Norm’s, La Cienega, on Fire, 1964
by Ed Ruscha
One more reason why Scotty is my favourite, and why Brothers & Sisters keep winning me back. It’s about characters. Side Dish is the best and most authentic of the fictional TV blogs.
