Casting a pod from your garage gave you your second wind on a calm day. You get interesting people to willingly open up about their lives and struggles and successes and idiosyncrasies and complexities, and this minimizes the chasms we’ve
September 16 – Jennifer Tilly gets alternative hat-tricks for an evolving sports world
As a partial Canadian, you probably know about hockey, right? And if you know about hockey, you might even be aware of Gordie Howe. And if you know about him, you definitely know about the Gordie Howe hat-trick. A traditional
July 30 – Arnold Schwarzenegger gets a muggy inventory
On an average day in the life of me, I will prepare and drink an orange pekoe tea in the morning, a cappuccino when I come home for lunch, and then a varying caffeine-free tea before bed. Depending on my
May 23 – H. Jon Benjamin gets a bullying lesson
A teacher in a story I read as a child was approached by one of his students who was being bullied, looking for guidance. The teacher told him a story about a similar situation from when he was a kid,
May 13 – Lena Dunham gets a hopeful artist’s showcase
I’m at an art show of a guy named Murakami, dubbed something about how octopodes will eat their own leg, hoping and mostly knowing it will regenerate, in order to escape entrapment. It’s symbolic in a way even the plebiest
May 1 – Tim McGraw gets over-heards and their hypothetical over-responses
These two guys who talk to each other sometimes are intrigued by lines they hear coming from the mouths of strangers as they live their lives. Well someone else is also intrigued by such overhearings, and that someone else is
April 25 – Hank Azaria gets a character study
You play a good few characters on the teevee. You’ll likely never play any of mine, but you should get to know a few of them anyway, in case the paradigm shifts and someone gives me the run of the
April 21 – Tony Danza gets objectionable mondegreens
You must be so sick of the Tiny Dancer people telling you they confuse the line with your name. And rightfully so. But these misheard lines, they’re not all about getting you to hold people closer – they’re about everything,
April 4 – David Cross gets some ideas to pass on to hopeful comics so that they’ll leave him alone
I have a few suggestions for stand up specials that those incessant nagging wannabes you likely have to deal with are free to use so they’ll shut up asking for advice. Since comedy comes in fours, here’s a quartet of
March 31 – Kate Micucci gets parodical jams
I write songs too. And I write parody songs too. That’s two things we have in common. That’s probably it. Anyway, here are some of my parodies. I won’t give away all the lyrics because you can never be too