I'm looking forward to reading this.

Quoted: The man with wide-ranging expertise weighs in on overnight fame and politics.

Some tortured sentences and generally poor descriptions in here, but you get the idea. It was lots of fun.

Quoted: Ron Burgundy and Tom Izzo. On the same stage.

I loved this documentary. Rickles is the best.

Quoted: HBO's Special Event page for Don Rickles: Mr. Warmth contains special features, video, interviews and information.

I've always liked Al Franken a lot. He has an unexpected earnestness that might allow him to pull this off.

***Correction: Al Franken has always been one of my faves.

Quoted: Conservatives like to say that people need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and I agree that’s a great idea, but first you gotta have … the boots.” This always, always, gets a laugh—a little gust of positivity (and relief) that Franken then channels like so: “The government gave my wife’s family the boots. That’s what progressives like me think the government is there to do.”

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Jim Gaffigan makes me laugh lots. I've also been enjoying him in sitcom format lately on "My Boys".

Quoted: Jim Gaffigan talking about Cake

Liz and I saw this over the weekend. LOVED it!

Quoted: Knocked Up is full of huge laughs and witty pop culture banter but also offers insightful and honest explorations of marriage, relationships, friendship and parenthood.

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Oh man, good stuff. The return o' Molly Shannon did not disappoint.

Quoted: Female stand-up Jeanie Darcy stops by Weekend Update. Don't get her started. Seriously.

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More commercial goodness.

Quoted: the starburst berries and cream commercial

More praise for "Hot Fuzz." I thought the following might convince some Slagers to check it out:

Quoted: The script is chockablock with absurd puns that somehow become funnier the more you think about them (pointing out a Sandford local who made his fortune off kitchen appliances, Danny observes, "There goes the fridge magnate").