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I Am Spartacus!

14 Friday Dec 2018

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If you haven’t seen or don’t remember the classic scene from the the movie Spartacus about the leader of a Roman slave rebellion, click on the very short video below, so that the rest of this makes sense:

 

Now watch what the geniuses at Improv Everywhere, the ringleaders of the international multi-city No Pants Subway Ride, did at a local Starbucks:

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Jiminy Glick Interviews Mel Brooks

21 Wednesday Nov 2018

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When Mel Brooks realizes that someone else is even crazier than he is, you know he’s admitting defeat. Martin Short as celebrity interviewer Jiminy Glick reduces Brooks to helpless laughter.

Thanks to YouTuber The Official MEL BROOKS Channel

“False, Fleeting, Perjured Clarence!”

04 Sunday Nov 2018

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Impressionist Jim Meskimen impresses in this excerpt from Shakespeare’s Richard III with a plethora of spot-on celebrity impersonations. I think his Richard Burton, Woody Allen, and Garrison Keillor are particularly good, but I don’t think there’s a miss in the lot. Let me know which ones you most enjoy.

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Jenny

02 Friday Nov 2018

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The daffy comic musical team, Flight of the Conchords sing about a rare chance meeting of lovers. The comedy duo has as perfect timing together as any stand-up team since Abbott and Costello or The Smothers Brothers.

Thanks to YouTuber asianscion

 

 

 

My Nomination For The Funniest Story Ever Told On Late Night TV

30 Tuesday Oct 2018

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Martin Short on Jimmy Fallon’s show reminisces about his good old days as a pre-med student in university.

Thanks to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon