Category Archives: Comedy

Memoirs of a Misfit Ruler

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Wherein we make like Marcel Proust and recall our humorous encounters with the trappings of power and authority in my local elementary school.

Click the triangle or mp3 link above to hear our tale, as broadcast today on Arts Express on WBAI FM NY and Pacifica stations across the nation.

Charles Grodin

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Charles Grodin died last month. His mock feud segments with Johnny Carson were some of my favorite bits of impromptu comedy. Here’s a follow up visit by Grodin to Johnny that I posted a few years ago.

Thanks to YouTuber MyInnerEyeInterview2

“I Know That. You Don’t Think I Know That? It’s So Funny That You Would Think That.”

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Our favorite Martin Short character, Nathan Thurm, in a manner uncannily anticipating Kellyanne Conway by several decades, defends the tobacco manufacturers.

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor (On The Bedpost Over Night)?

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Monday morning, Lonnie Donegan and his Skiffle group. I was the proud owner of that 45 on Dot Records, back in 1961.

Thanks to YouTuber the45prof

Title Fight

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Granted that the glory days of attention-grabbing newspaper headline writing have long passed, still you have to appreciate it when they come out with an effort like yesterday’s New York Daily News headline concerning the events of May 5th.

The Play That Goes WrOnG

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And this is just the first ten minutes. A very funny farce concerning…well, a play where everything possible goes wrong. And keep a lookout at the end for the Buster Keaton house gag.

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Thanks to YouTuber MYSTiiC KiiNG

The Song In Every Musical That No One Likes

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The very clever Sarah Smallwood Parsons sings a truth universally acknowledged, to hilarious effect.

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Thanks to YouTuber CharactersWelcome

“What Do You Expect From A Moose?”

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Welcome actors June Foray and Bill Scott to the virtual studio, as they do the voices for Rocky The Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle Moose, among other characters from the classic Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon television series of the early 1960s.

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Thanks to YouTuber davidalpert

If I Only Had A Brain

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Ray Bolger and Judy Garland, 25 years after their first meeting as The Scarecrow and Dorothy Gale from Kansas.

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Thanks to YouTuber The Vintage Archive

April Showers

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 In this issue:

** Comedian/actress Margaret Cho talks with Prairie Miller about Anti-Asian racism and more

** Paul Robeson re-imagined in an excerpt from actor/playwright Tayo Aluko ‘s Paul Robeson’s Love Song

** Poet Paul Hostovsky with his humorous and trenchant poems.

** Photos from the larger-than-life Garden of Sculpture

And much more!

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April 2021 Newsletter

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