Cheri Oteri as Fran Drescher. Norm Macdonald as George Burns.

Me and all my hipster friends were obsessed with this documentary in high school: www.youtube.com/watch?v=67hE...

First on LateNighter: Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff is turning his attention to one of comedy’s most beloved—and most elusive—figures: Norm Macdonald.

Those L.A. Nights...

Popular histories can be hard to get right (you have to remember to be entertaining rather than just be a collection of ‘then this happened’), and this one - like The Comedians - nailed it. Fascinating and horrifying to track the continuing, sinister influence of the John Birch society on culture.

Very exciting! Judd & Michael did a great job.

Proud to be included in this fantastic THEATRICAL documentary. Go see it at Film Forum and selected theaters this fall: www.instagram.com/reel/DaiNp6j...

It's Wednesday Night. You know what that means. Time to read an interview with Marty Ingels: classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2012/06/inte...

Proud to be included in this fantastic THEATRICAL documentary. Go see it at Film Forum and selected theaters this fall: www.instagram.com/reel/DaiNp6j...

Forty years after the fact, I'm just now realizing that "Hubba Bubba" is supposed to be a takeoff on the old phrase "Hubba, Hubba."

1992. Richard Lewis introduces Norm Macdonald on the A-List.

Me to an elderly neighbor: "I hear you used to work for Red Skelton and Fred MacMurray." Elderly neighbor: "Yes. Also John Wayne threatened to punch me in the face."

Real Canadians celebrate Canada Day by binge watching Front Page Challenge www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkq_...

Me to an elderly neighbor: "I hear you used to work for Red Skelton and Fred MacMurray." Elderly neighbor: "Yes. Also John Wayne threatened to punch me in the face."

a Weekend Update callback.

a Weekend Update callback.

All Hail the King

The first compact disc I ever owned. Still holds up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luq_...

For a second, I thought this was a screenshot of Dan Aykroyd

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1966. David Clayton Thomas made one of the heaviest Canadian garage rock songs of all time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXsd...

The plaza around the corner from UCB in Franklin Village as seen in Ken Russell's Crimes of Passion (1984).

The Canadian who created The Avengers and Dr. Who.

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Mockingbird outside the Happy Days house in the middle of the night.

Archie falling for that A.I. hype. Riverdale three and a half years from now.

Playing at Film Forum this September. Go see it!

Love this song: dn720307.ca.archive.org/0/items/vari...

Collect Them All (in specially marked packages of Post Alpha-Bits Cereal)

1971. Latter day Girl Group sounds: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JQ7...

Collect Them All (in specially marked packages of Post Alpha-Bits Cereal)

I got a big thrill listening to the voice of British Columbia legend Bill Reiter as I interviewed him for my forthcoming book about the history of Canadian comedy. Sorry, We're Funny will be much more than just big stars and things that occurred in Toronto: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sorry-were...

"Yes, this is Forrest Tucker when he's extremely drunk speaking."

My boy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvPI...

Ad for a Bob Crane personal appearance in Mesa, AZ. 1976. cc: @classicshowbiz.bsky.social

You owe My Mother the Car and Pink Lady & Jeff an apology: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQDV...