A reminder from Heywood Banks on what really matters
on Memorial Day.
It ain’t mattresses…

A few things to offer first and foremost.
Rowan Atkinson is one of the best comedians to
ever grace a stage, top notch in every way.
Hugh Laurie (George) is a very talented actor
and comedian.
As is Tony Robinson (Baldrick) and Tim Mcinnerny
(Darling).
The Blackadder series was one of the very best
television comedies ever created.
If you have never watched a Blackadder episode
please take the time and do so, the whole series
is hilarious.
Having said all that, this is one of the best endings
ever created for a television program.
But it is most definitely NOT funny.
Pure genius…

A classic piece of stand-up by the late, great George Carlin.
I consider him to be the greatest comedian of all time.
Certainly one of the most prolific, and controversial.
The author of the Supreme Court’s Seven Dirty Words
you can’t say on television, his legacy is quite solid.
To show you how silly that ruling was it only affected
non cable television.
Apparently only good people watch standard TV.
George was known for refining a good joke over time,
modifying it to make it better, this is one of those bits.
Brilliant in every way…

I have been to many a venue to see a stand-up comedian
only to be greatly annoyed by professional hecklers.
I kid you not, there are people out there that get off on
showing up at comedy clubs with an entourage of like
minded simpletons to do nothing more than disrupt an
otherwise decent performance.
When I first started seeing this I thought to myself that
it is an isolated incident, not at all prolific.
I was wrong.
It is pathetic, to watch a fellow human being try to
humiliate a comedian while they are doing their job
leaves a really bad taste in my mouth.
It is wrong on so many levels, not the least of which
is depriving the audience of a good show.
I stopped going to clubs because of this phenomenon.
Tom Wilson does a decent job of covering this issue…

This is a cool one.
Weird AL Yankovic and Huey Lewis in a sketch that can
best be described as “payback”.
Did I mention that it was dark?
It is gloriously so.
Parody at it’s best.
With a healthy dose of irony thrown in for good measure…