Lewis Black is a mean spirited comic who loves the 7 Words You Can’t Say on Television. He is a damned funny fellow. Me of Little Faith had me laughing out loud several times and pausing to think a few other times. The title, Me of Little Faith, means what it says. He doesn’t like organized religions, but he has faith in a Physic Friend and may have meet briefly with the Re-Incarnated Jesus Christ at a Trailer Park. Seriously. Lewis Black has had a few real world religious experiences, but he puts them aside when they are not convenient…
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Rainbow Innuendo-Watch The Clip
Freddy: “We could hear you all banging away”Rod: “Banging can be fun.”Jane: “Ooooh yes, and I was banging away all last night with Rod andFreddy.” Rainbow was a British children’s television series, created by Pamela Lonsdale, which ran twice weekly at 12:10 on Tuesdays and Fridays on the ITV network, from 1972 to 1992. I saw this clip on Plurk earlier and thought that it was just dead brilliant. The Wife wonders how they managed to keep straight faces throughout the sketch. Just watching it the first time I missed a few of the gags, as it is a lot…
Bill Bryson’s Thunderbolt Kid
“Happily,” Bryson writes, “we were indestructible. We didn’t need seat belts, air bags, smoke detectors, bottled water, or the Heimlich maneuver.” Listening to Bill Bryson as he reads, with some relish, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, one is struck by the idea that he must have sent off for one of those Hypnosis Kits he found in the back of comic books in the 1950s. His voice is soothing and plesant but seems to be hiding something. It’s a slightly confusing account of what it was like being a rich kid in Iowa in the 1950s. There…