What Makes Me Laugh

We turned off our television for the summer, and after going through withdrawals that included turning up the volume on a Steve Earle album and playing air guitar around the house for entertainment, I decided to get Netflix as a television substitute. Not that dancing around the house isn’t good for us, we agreed to [...]

   In trying to find the original skit about “fline swu” on SNL in 1975-76 I did find an episode with Dyan Cannon, Chevy Chase, and Dan Aykroyd that uses swine flu in the plot. It aired on May 15, 1976 at the end of the first season of Saturday Night Live. Thanks to the [...]

Martha, Martha, Martha. Just when I was starting to like you again. The stories of you picking dandelions in the prison yard and leading yoga sessions for the other inmates made me smile and think how plucky and resilient you are when the chips were down. Now, when I need to make apple cobbler or [...]

  I wake up to the sound of glass shattering in the kitchen. It’s 3 a.m. and I know immediately that it has to do with the cats. I try to keep them off the kitchen countertops, and they are banned when I’m cooking, but it’s kind of a futile effort when I’m not looking. The [...]

  On the flight back to America, I collected a few more travel tips to share with my savvy readers. If there is one universal law about life I think it’s that you learn the best lessons the hard way.   Travel Tip #4: Clothes expand in your suitcase It’s a fundamental law of traveling. [...]

 Only one episode left to go in this season’s Flight of the Conchords, and I’ll have to miss it, because … and this is not a joke … I’ll be in Australia. I think it may be the ultimate fan betrayal.  But, we have more important things to discuss this evening. Namely, the poster by [...]

I added a new page to my blog tonight with links to all of my favorite comedians, writers, and humorists. It’s admittedly still a work in progress, but will get you started finding people that make YOU laugh.

Episode 19 of Flight of the Conchords is not to be missed! Not only is the poster by Murray’s desk classic, but Jemaine’s impression of Art Garfunkel and Art’s actual appearance on the show is hilarious. Plus, the prime minister of New Zealand makes the trip to New York for a rocking fondue party with [...]