Author Archives: michael

Crappy Jobs

I consider this piece by Dana Gould to be a classic
bit of stand-up comedy.
A couple of laugh out loud moments contained therein.
He’s a great comedian, if he ever gets back into it full
time and releases a new recording I’ll be on it…

Fractured Fairy Tales: The Turtle and the Hare

This is from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, a cartoon that
ran in the early 60’s that was way ahead of it’s time.
The voice over artists are the cream of the crop, the best that
the industry had to offer at the time.
The fables are, as the title suggests, all messed up.
In the sense that humor is indeed the message, and not the
moral, ethical, or cerebral one that is implied in the original
fables of yesteryear.
Not laugh out loud humorous but it is definitely entertaining…

https://youtu.be/uSCW2ksGSwA

Starting a Brawl at Disneyland

Brian Regan is taking no nonsense from line cutters.
I’ve been in that position myself, temporarily stunned
by the insolence of it all, did nothing but stare in disbelief.
Of course after it was all over I had several fantasies of
shooting him in the face with a bazooka while screaming
some serious “Drunken sailor on shore leave” epithets at him,
but nothing serious.
He took the high road as well.
His fantasy was classier than mine, by a long shot…