The toaster? Ooh!
I've tried to march in the Slayer Pride Parade ...
Joyce ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Comedy 1: A Little Song, a Little Dance, a Little Seltzer Down Your Pants
This thread is for comedy TV, including network and cable shows. [NAFDA]
brenda m - Nov 03, 2009 8:57:13 am PST #1817 of 8624
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Nov 03, 2009 12:14:15 pm PST #1818 of 8624
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Yay, it's real!
Oh, that's too cool!
And now I have to go on and on about wanting to be able to make Cylon toast, until The Girl gives in and buys me that for Colonial Day Christmas.
dcp - Nov 03, 2009 12:49:34 pm PST #1819 of 8624
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I couldn't get past nit-picking the kite-fighting details.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 04, 2009 3:44:30 pm PST #1820 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
OMG - PBS (or at least my affiliate) is showing Bill Cosby receiving the Mark Twain award for storytelling, and it's just reminding me so much why his comedy records from the 60s were so damn formative for me. Plus, footage of him doing some of his classic bits in a variety of contexts (including the Noah bit on the Jack Paar show - he's SOOO young there!).
Aims - Nov 04, 2009 3:46:24 pm PST #1821 of 8624
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Thank you Frank - now I have something to watch instead of Glee. Stupid baseball.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 04, 2009 4:04:36 pm PST #1822 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Whoa - Phylicia Rashad is still a hottie!
Kathy A - Nov 04, 2009 4:45:36 pm PST #1823 of 8624
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I saw Cosby live last year--I was nearly crying I was laughing so hard! He went completely improv for the first 15-20 minutes of his performance when he started chatting with the backstage guy who brought him some water and found some terrific hilarity in this man's life story.
Frankenbuddha - Nov 04, 2009 4:58:53 pm PST #1824 of 8624
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Bill Cosby was my first serious comedy experience. Before Python, before the Muppet Show. I have very, very dim memories of his first show where he was a teacher (and he re-used a number of his routines). Then, of course, there was Fat Albert. But I was already listening to the records by then.
I've even heard a semi-adult show he did. Not quite working blue, but seriously purple given his usual stuff (a bit beyond the drug stuff he did in Himself).
DavidS - Nov 04, 2009 5:03:23 pm PST #1825 of 8624
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My first introduction to Cosby was the albums that a friend's family had.
I vividly remember "Buck Buck" and the downhill go-kart race and the Chicken Heart.
Later research showed that Buck Buck was a children's game that went back to ancient Rome.
Oh yeah - and the sabre-tooth tiger with a lisp!
Kathy A - Nov 04, 2009 5:44:09 pm PST #1826 of 8624
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
My grandparents had two of his albums, which were the first comedy albums I ever heard.
I loved his riff on "what if there was an umpire to flip a coin before various battles in history?"
"Colonel Custer, this is Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull, this is Colonel Custer. Call the coin there, Cus'. Colonel Custer called 'heads,' this is 'tails.' You have the call there, Sit. All right, Sitting Bull says that you and your men have to stay down there in the hollow while he and all the Indians in the world ride right down on you."