Todd Barry is my favorite stand-up comedian. I treated the release of his new album, From Heaven, with the same outpouring of emotion with which another man might treat some sort of sports victory, or perhaps a wedding day. You may know Todd as the voice of Frank Mankiewicz on […]
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Dancing With the Stars: Week 6 (Apr 22)
It seems people really like this show about stars who dance. Me, personally? I like a show about unknowns who sing. Most people who know me know that I’m a helluva dancer, so while fellow spunkybean-guy, EJ, is on vacation, I’ll handle the performance recap duties. Imagine my chagrin when […]
Big Brother Breakdown: What Would Jesus Do? (April 17)
The answer to the above question, of course, is that Jesus doesn’t care about Big Brother, no matter how much Natalie would like to think he does. And, even though there were some bumps in the road near the end, the plan to get Chatty Natty out of the house […]
Dancing With the Stars: Week 5 Results (Apr 16)
Tom starts us off by telling us that “last night, the pressure was on”. Hey, Tom, what’s that show with Regis & Kelly? LIIIIIIIIVE!! In the recap of last night’s show via confessional, we’re reminded that Bruno called Jason a “love god”, Marissa kept repeating how much fun she had […]
Dancing WIth the Stars-Latin Night! (April 14)
Last week, Adam Carolla was eliminated after dressing like Zorro and riding a unicycle. There’s a computer graphic where the unicycle flies off the screen, and that’s it for Adam. Deep down, Tom Bergeron is very happy, because he doesn’t have to work around Adam’s ten-minute stand-up bits after every […]
Half-Ass DVD Review: John From Cincinnati
HBO’s early advertising for John from Cincinnati, last year’s new series from David Milch (Deadwood, NYPD Blue), called it “surf noir”. That’s not an easy genre to visualize. Raymond Chandler set in the underbelly of the surfing culture? It sounded intriguing, and then the series premiered and it actually turned […]