Robin Williams' "Reality, What a Concept" album was big in our house--it was the first "grown-up" comedy album (complete with swear words!) that either my sister or I bought. (We were well-versed on Carlin and Cheech and Chong, but we'd never bought either of their albums yet.) We would have been in junior high at the time, and thought it was screamingly hilarious.

Yes, Himself and Delirious were the comic soundtracks of my youth.

Add Robin Williams' Live at the Met and this is my youth as well.

One evening when I was visiting my sister last year, her stepkids had taken over the living room tv to watch the pre-Cosby-Show concert film "Bill Cosby--Himself," which apparently they hadn't seen before. All three of them (aged 10-20) were laughing uproariously. When Sis and I started singing the "Dad is great / He gives us chocolate cake!" lines along with Cos, the kids all looked at us funny. "You've seen this before?" "Oh, yeah, a few times..."

This movie is actually one of the steps on bringing me and Mr. Jane together. When we were just friends and he had first moved to Dallas and was spending Thanksgiving alone, I flew over from Louisiana so he could spend the holiday with my family here in Texas.

We stayed at a hotel because he hated his roomates and didn't want me to meet them.

We were napping before dinner, and Himself was on. We both started snickering while trying to fall asleep. Then full on laughter. Finally we were both up and sitting on the end of one of the beds crying we were laughing so hard. By the end we were so high from laughing, we decided we'd never catch a nap, but we still had a while before dinner, so we decided to make out instead.

Am listening to Cosby finally - "Brain Damage" at the moment. AIFG.

30 Rock killed it last night. Brian Williams was hilarious. And the real CISCO ad followed by the in-show ad. Classic.

Aww, a cute music video by Mark Salling (Puck) paying tribute to his "Glee" family.

Nooooooo! They can't split up Robin and Barney!

ROBIN+BARNEY4EVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

*sob*

Fun episode, though.

Aww, a cute music video by Mark Salling (Puck) paying tribute to his "Glee" family.

I may have died from how cute that was.

Fun episode, though.

Meh. I never thought I'd see a fat suit episode of any show that made me miss fat suit Monica on Friends, but that one came damn close (sure, fat suit Monica was mostly insulting, but she was also still mostly recognizably Monica, and Chandler still utterly loved her).

And it just seems like an overly brief, careless waste of a long, long, intense, interesting-and-complex-and-messy-for-both-characters build-up.

The stakeout station wagon scene was pretty good, though, and I now have huge love for Lily in her horror at finding out that the Death Star was full of human beings (unlike Lily, I have a longstanding geeky love for Star Wars, and can even remember pestering my dad to take us to the only movie memorabilia shop in Berkeley in 1977 to buy up a ton of Star Wars posters and mugs and tie-in novels and possibly beach towels for my brothers and me--but I still remember having the exact same reaction when I first saw it; surely they weren't all, every single one, completely evil? Surely there was one guy, maybe a janitor, who was just there because he needed a job, and now his wife and kids wouldn't even get a body for a funeral! Sure, the Death Star was deathy and all, but this just seemed a little mean).

surely they weren't all, every single one, completely evil? Surely there was one guy, maybe a janitor, who was just there because he needed a job, and now his wife and kids wouldn't even get a body for a funeral!

Grant Morrison addresses this very subject in The Invisibles. Pretty great story actually. (By "this very issue" I mean bad guy minion body count rather than Death Star janitors.)