Posts tagged comedy

Perma-Lacque Hair Spray Commercial - For hair that will survive anything. Katherine O’Hara stars as the woman with indestructible hair in a spoof for Canadian television sketch comedy show SCTV in the 1980s.

Poochare Dog Food Commercial - Eugene Levy stars in an early 1980s SCTV spoof of popular designer jeans commercials of the time.

Art Forum Reviews Sandra Bernhard - “In a sparkly black A-line sheath, russett curls, and oozing J.A.P.py glamour, La Bernhard opened with a vigorous rendition of “Laughter in the Rain.” She was sellin’ it. Then, mercifully, she switched to the patter, which seemed to be a work-in-progress. Stuff about her condo board; cleaning out her daughter’s closet and donating the clothes she outgrew to the needy—like Taylor Momsen; “rough sexual fantasies” about an old plumber of hers she looked up on the Internet (“I hope this gets ugly,” I overheard); Bristol Palin’s purchase of a $350,000 house and her confusing role as spokesmodel for both abstinence and Candies shoes. Riffing on all manner of celebrity kitsch (from royal weddings to Cindy Crawford’s JCPenney sheets and “Meaningful Beauty” products, “full of parabens,” SB sniffed, that her WASP girlfriend uses nevertheless) with the trio of musicians installed behind her like potted plants. (“This is the easiest gig these musicians have ever had.”) She usually has a lady drummer, she explained, for sisterhood and solidarity—and then the backstabbing, the bitchiness, and competition…”

Art Forum Reviews Sandra Bernhard - “In a sparkly black A-line sheath, russett curls, and oozing J.A.P.py glamour, La Bernhard opened with a vigorous rendition of “Laughter in the Rain.” She was sellin’ it. Then, mercifully, she switched to the patter, which seemed to be a work-in-progress. Stuff about her condo board; cleaning out her daughter’s closet and donating the clothes she outgrew to the needy—like Taylor Momsen; “rough sexual fantasies” about an old plumber of hers she looked up on the Internet (“I hope this gets ugly,” I overheard); Bristol Palin’s purchase of a $350,000 house and her confusing role as spokesmodel for both abstinence and Candies shoes. Riffing on all manner of celebrity kitsch (from royal weddings to Cindy Crawford’s JCPenney sheets and “Meaningful Beauty” products, “full of parabens,” SB sniffed, that her WASP girlfriend uses nevertheless) with the trio of musicians installed behind her like potted plants. (“This is the easiest gig these musicians have ever had.”) She usually has a lady drummer, she explained, for sisterhood and solidarity—and then the backstabbing, the bitchiness, and competition…”

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner - “Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.” (via Old Love)

Bill Murray on Gilda Radner - “Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good thing: Laraine had a party one night, a great party at her house. And I ended up being the disk jockey. She just had forty-fives, and not that many, so you really had to work the music end of it. There was a collection of like the funniest people in the world at this party. Somehow Sam Kinison sticks in my brain. The whole Monty Python group was there, most of us from the show, a lot of other funny people, and Gilda. Gilda showed up and she’d already had cancer and gone into remission and then had it again, I guess. Anyway she was slim. We hadn’t seen her in a long time. And she started doing, “I’ve got to go,” and she was just going to leave, and I was like, “Going to leave?” It felt like she was going to really leave forever.” (via Old Love)

The Life and Times of Rusty Warren - “Now imagine if their records had been barred from radio play. What if Bob Newhart had been blacklisted from network television? How far would Allan Sherman’s novelty pressings have gone if they were relegated to the surreptitious “adults only” section of the local record store? With such obstacles stacked against them would they have become astronomic celebrities? Would they smash attendance records at every club they appeared? Without one national television appearance to their name would they have achieved seven straight gold records? That’s exactly what happened to a woman named Rusty Warren. Against insurmountable odds, she went from tiny midwestern cocktail lounges to well-known Vegas showrooms and ascended to the heights of stardom without the help of radio, television or film. During a time when many women were content to embrace the role of submissive homemaker, Rusty was in nightclubs making fun of male hang-ups and advocating that women shed their shackles and embrace an appetite for sex.”

The Life and Times of Rusty Warren - “Now imagine if their records had been barred from radio play. What if Bob Newhart had been blacklisted from network television? How far would Allan Sherman’s novelty pressings have gone if they were relegated to the surreptitious “adults only” section of the local record store? With such obstacles stacked against them would they have become astronomic celebrities? Would they smash attendance records at every club they appeared? Without one national television appearance to their name would they have achieved seven straight gold records? That’s exactly what happened to a woman named Rusty Warren. Against insurmountable odds, she went from tiny midwestern cocktail lounges to well-known Vegas showrooms and ascended to the heights of stardom without the help of radio, television or film. During a time when many women were content to embrace the role of submissive homemaker, Rusty was in nightclubs making fun of male hang-ups and advocating that women shed their shackles and embrace an appetite for sex.”

Free Time Machos - A comedy about the most northern and third lousiest rugby team in the world.

Gay Advocacy Group Objects to ‘South Park’ Episode tited “The F-Word” where the animated characters of “South Park” decide they will change the meaning of the word “Fag”. The Times Arts Beat column ‘South Park’ vs. GLAAD: Readers Respond takes up the conversation, including a discussion of the term “Queer” and a link to a Times article from 1991 about the efforts to mainstream the terminology. Equal opportunity offenders or hilarious comedy, you decide, you can stream the F Word Episode Uncensored and download a an official wallpaper.

Gay Advocacy Group Objects to ‘South Park’ Episode tited “The F-Word” where the animated characters of “South Park” decide they will change the meaning of the word “Fag”. The Times Arts Beat column ‘South Park’ vs. GLAAD: Readers Respond takes up the conversation, including a discussion of the term “Queer” and a link to a Times article from 1991 about the efforts to mainstream the terminology. Equal opportunity offenders or hilarious comedy, you decide, you can stream the F Word Episode Uncensored and download a an official wallpaper.