G’morning, Christy.

For reasons I have never completely understood, the mere sight of Gene Wilder breaks me up. He has the look of someone who is about to do or say something absolutely outrageously funny. And usually does. Ergo, “Young Frankenstein” for starters.

And actually, I find barbara talking to herself on FDL pretty funny, too. *g*

(taps fingers on desk) Where is everyone?!

Morning barbara, some of us were still wondering around downstairs.

Since the first time I read it Mark Twain’s story Curing a Cold never fails to reduce me to helpless giggles. And Florence King’s “Southern Ladies and Gentlemen” has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve ever read in my life. Movies? “Hopscotch” makes me howl every time I see it.

Hey! G’morning, Elliott.

Stephen Colbert is the one who makes me laugh. He and his writers are absolutely brilliant. His most recent moment of genius was talking about the Bush/McCain answer to the financial mess. The Word:”Placebo”

You are not alone! Christy, didn’t the movie make you want one of those icky drinks with an umbrella in it. A oldie but goodie movie is “Shirley Valentine”. That is definitely a girl friend movie.

Morning Christy,

Frankly I get most of my laughs these days reading stuff the bloggers post. That was one of the things that attracted me to this. While the world is crumbling around us and we fight to save it, there are lots of folks in cyberspace to make me laugh when I want to cry.

And there’s Jon Stewart and Colbert too.

driftglass,
lewis black,
the asylum street spankers,
life of brian,
and
gogol bordello (start wearing purple)!!!!!!

Good morning Christie and everyone. Yes! You need girlfriends. My friends and I have a blast together (most I’ve known since I was a little girl).

The best times are the ones where it’s all stream of consciousness…

Last Saturday my friend Janet came up to my house. We spent most of the day chatting about our lives, catching up etc. Then @ 5:30pm she picked up a catalogue in the livingroom and said to me, “Huh. This stuff (lawn care product) has walnuts in it”, and I said, “Cool”. She said, “I’ve always wanted to have chestnut colored highlights in my hair”, and I said, “I need my eyebrows done. Chestnut, great color”, and the next thing I know I’m on the phone with a local salon asking them if they have 2 slots for us to get our hair highlighted & our eyebrows done! LOL *shaking head* I told Janet, “The next time you come up, I’m mailing my credit card to my mother so I won’t use it!”.

Girlfriends are great. ;-)

“Monty Python and the Holy Grail” (peasants, hold your tongues!)

As for girlfriends to hang around with, in my profession they are hard to find unless they are other clergy. Way back in the early ’90’s we had a women’s clergy group in Portland OR that was the best! We gathered monthly for support and chocolate. We also got together on New Year’s Eve with our sig. others every year. I miss that and them—but most of us scattered around the country.

Good Morning Christy and Firedogs,

am chuckling ’cause I’m drawing a blank – and I lovvvve the subject. oh well, more coffee.

didn’t know Baranski is in the film, my goodness she and Meryl Streep ? wow.

This blogger always makes me laugh. She’s a recovering addict but sees life through a really fun lens. And the image of an “angry ballerina” just makes me howl with laughter!

http://angryballerina.wordpress.com/

(WARNING: she uses profanity in some of her posts. Sometimes every other word.) ;-)

Movies for laughs, hmmm. Cary Grant has lots of those. Last NYE some of us got together and we watched I Was a Male War Bride. Very funny! He did some great ones with Kate Hepburn as did Tracy. Always good for a smile if not a guffaw.

When Air America first came on, Morning Sedition was my fix. I loved Mark and Marc in the am. Always funny. AAR has so screwed up their schedule I almost never listen any more. Too bad too.

sounds like another “date” with spouse where he walks into one theater and I go into a different one.

Mornin’, pups,

For music, *anything* folkish…..even the sad stuff. ‘Specially songs featuring the hammered dulcimer which sounds like sunlight on water.

love them all – c’mon over !

Good morning Christie and everyone. Yes! You need girlfriends. My friends and I have a blast together (most I’ve known since I was a little girl).

The best times are the ones where it’s all stream of consciousness…

Agreed Kay
Just spent the evening last night with BFF forevah, and her mom who is also a best friend.

saw the subdudes at the Bandshell here in City Park. Good music and lots of fun even ran into a couple of old friends, and relatives of relatives.

Plus there were homemade cookies — and love, as egregious would say ;)

Darting in to say that I’m hopelessly vulnerable to slapstick. Not too sophisticated here.

Almost time to make the Birthday Breakfast Pancake for the youngest one, who is turning 18 today! He will be serenaded awake, the birthday cloth (a gorgeous piece of Indian cloth shot through with gold threads) will be placed across his lap, and his will have a pie plate of a puff pancake heaped with fresh strawberries. Then he will get up and go to work for the Kansas Democratic Party, door to door, talking and listening. It is hot work these days and he’s amazed both by the ignorance of many and the kindness of some. An elderly couple, Native American, invited him in to have cold water and to talk. They have never missed a vote and won’t miss this one either. He’s getting good stories.

Otherwise, we are in a heap of boxes and sorting. My daughter moved into the house this week, my son moves to college in about a month, and I move to Montana in a few weeks. Total, total chaos. I have shut down my mind.

But, smiling I am. A healthy, happy son who, after being the runt of his grade school and junior high, is now over six feet tall, confident and excited about life. I’ll miss him mightily, but then I have new adventures that will be challenging too, a new job and a new place to live, and finally, getting to live in the same place as my husband after nearly a year apart.

This is on tap for today. Wish I did have a gal pal to go with. Will just have to do it solo this time. Love fine craft fairs.

i’ll bring the beer ….

Good for you. Enjoy every bit of it. Montana is BIG and beautiful.

Have a wonderful time. That is one show that I would have to leave my wallet at home.

Sounds like a blast! Nothing better than hanging with friends. I love my friend’s mothers too. My friends love my mother as well. ;-)

I want to see the new Batman movie, but my 14 year old son will NOT go with his mother to this movie (brat), so I called a guy whom I had met last year to see if he wanted to go with me. Turns out, he’s dating someone, which is fine, but when Janet found out, she said, “The hell with it. Let’s go see Mama Mia!”. LOL And we will.

repo man
a fish called wanda
leonard cohen (not exactly funny unless you’re twisted, like me)

AdAstra, you have quite the life ahead of you! Enjoy every minute of it. ;-)

Tom Lehrer. Pretty much anything. Anyone else old enough to remember him?

don’t solicit for your sister, it’s not nice ….

Well I’m off to work outside before it rains. Have a good day all.

George Gobel, having nothing whatsoever to do with movies or music.

had the genuine pleasure of meeting some firedogs a week ago . . . and it was like hooking up with girlfriends – gosh what a blast! hope everyone that wants to gets the chance at some point

. . . unless you get a percentage of her price . . .

Just played him the other day. Have to be careful who I play his stuff around. We were painting the shed on the 4th with our flag waving neighbors on each side. One blaring rock music. I wanted to get out the boom box and put Lehrer on. Hubby disapproved.

Be Prepared!
Is the Boy Scouts marching song
Be Prepared!

so guess what I had on my mind all day thursday ??? :D

I think it would benefit Johnny McTeleprompter to have a girlfriend at this point…

http://patriotboy.blogspot.com…..ccain.html

He needs one!

The girlfriends and I even take short vacations together. Entirely different from going with the hubby. We shop (and nobody’s looking at their watch), we go on organized tours (which the hubby doesn’t like), we go to museums (ditto)…. and……when we go to sleep, nobody wakes us up at 3am.

take care all. gotta go pretend like i’m working ……

Ooops. Here’s the direct link to the YouTube video from Jesus’ General:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GayO4pc8S_A

Ah, boombox wars. I have a totally immature thing I do in my car. When I’m waiting at a stop light next to a mega-volume, head-bangin’ thrumba, thrumba, thrumba car, I sometimes crank up my tunes to top volume, too. The thing is, I usually listen to classical music. Dvorak would be proud. David, not so much!

they aren’t kidding when they call it Big Sky country

if you’re in Great Falls, search out Penny’s Gourmet To Go, no better food in the state!

” . . . the breakfast that you dump in the bay they drink for lunch in San Jose . . .”

Mornin’ Christy!

Movies:
Blazing Saddles and History of the World, Part I but really most any Mel Brooks.

Some Comedy Westerns:
Support Your Local Sheriff and McClintock

The Great Race

Most any old Warners Brothers cartoons (but especially Bugs Bunny) and Rocky and Bullwinkle

And give me some time and I’ll think of a few more.

guess Obama got that one backwards, eh?

wish youtube had “The Partisan” …..

Also the Charles Russell Museum. What a wonderful piece of Americana! Among other things, letters he wrote to friends, whereon he made little sketches in the margins to illustrate his points. Lovely little treasure, that museum.

A subversive way to counter the rock way too loud? Put on something like Frank Zappa or maybe Dr Demento’s Anniversary CD (which includes some Lehrer and Zappa both)

One of my neighbors came over shortly after I moved here to invite my son to her daughter’s birthday party (these are teenagers, mind you). We’ve become good friends since then. She seems to be a very intelligent woman and she teaches biology. Imagine my um…surprise…when she called me one night to ask if I wanted to go star-gazing and sasquatch hunting. I found myself (and my son and her husband and her two daughters) out with her, driving the back roads, stopping every now and then to give the “sasquatch mating call” and watch a meteor shower. From that day to this, I don’t know if she really believes in sasquatch (I have asked, and she swears they’re real and she just smiles when I laugh at her), but I wouldn’t trade the adventures we occasionally have for anything. Her “shortcuts” are usually long and scenic and full of laughter.

youtube does have “The Future” though. the one from Jools Holland is really quite good ……

and ear plugs for me. Being a jazz and classical kinda girl that’s a bit over the top.

But don’t really want to piss off the neighbors until they do something really worthy of it.

Elliot- YGM

those notes are wonderful! yes a most enjoyable museum.

Morning all — had a bit of a sleep-in this morning. The Peanut went to grandma’s house for the weekend, so Mr. ReddHedd and I took advantage of the morning quiet and got some extra sleep. Ahhhhh….

How is everyone this morning?

oooh, like minds! I do the classical crank-up, too.

And thanks for the Great Race reminder,dakine…gotta find that one and watch again.

Met up with girlfriends for lunch last Monday in St. Cloud…they came from the Minne-apple region, me down from Fargo. Worth going the distance for! And the one who’d already seen Mamma Mia said it’s a definite to-do.

I love big ol’ musicals and two of my sentimental faves are Sound of Music and Fame.

I like two old movies:
The Long, Long Trailer with Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House with Cary Grant and Myrna Loy

Barbara…Selise and I were talking about Monty Python and The Holy Grail just this past week. One of the commenters was saying that he didn’t like it when folks here argued about every little gnat’s ass and I forget who the headliner was, but he asked An African Gnat or a Euorpean Gnat…from the bit in that movie about the speed of a swallow. You know the scene I mean? It was a funny moment here. I laughed out loud, which I usually don’t do here that much.

If you’re looking for laughs, there’s always giddy kitty giggles

just watched Blandings —again— last week. Not so funny if you’re living through it, which, fortunately, I’m not. Otherwise, a hoot!

Humor at home: My college-aged son has spent an enormous amount of time and energy fixing up the interior of his old mustang. He has another car but this is his ‘baby’. Nearly every night, he’s out there replacing the carpeting, putting in a sound system and I don’t know what else. Then we get a progress report during dinner on how great it’s going to be.
The other night I happened to remark that I haven’t seen him drive it at all lately. His answer: “It’s out of gas.”

when I have the place to myself and feel like dancing around the FDL Wheelhouse – I crank UP the Flamenco

Anything with Myrna Loy is guaranteed for laughs. Love her witty snark!

Actually, Dr Demento (and Zappa and maybe Kinky Friedman) probably would not p*ss ‘em off. More likely they’d admire your music choice and sense of humor.

But then, my tastes run through most all the gambit and variants of R ‘n R, Blues, Jazz, Country, and Bluegrass

Most all of the Thin Man movies then.

And, Dakine, we have the Mel Brooks humor in common. I’ll watch Blazing Saddles anywhere, anytime. It always it me going. Not sophisticated humor, but it does make me laugh.
Things around here (the homefront) have got me too serious and worried this week. I might have to look up some funny movies for the afternoon.

Bah hahahahahah! Funny…(but sad)!!!

Oh and our fave holiday laugh is David Sedaris’ Christmas Elf. I’ve got the unedited 22 minute version and it always cracks us up.

I’m waiting for Novak to get arrested. That will make me smile. Why hasn’t that happened yet?

Good morning, Christy.

A certain segment of the Coen Brother’s oeuvre sends me into hysterics, notably:

Raising Arizona
Hudsucker Proxy
Barton Fink

But, Mrs. Bilbo thinks I have a pretty weird sense of humor. ;=D

Morning
May be a guy thing but have never gotten tired of “Dr. Strangelove”

Horsefeathers!

There sure are a lot of hilarious movies (and cartoons, Dakine) up there! I have a liking for “Ruthless People” and the oldie “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad World”

Love, love love the Thin Man movies!

amen sistah ! I was away from the toobz when lolcatz blew up or I probably never would have known about them if not for you :D

here, in case you’ve never seen it – 11 sec. seen it a bazillion times and still makes me laugh

ahh, hope you get out the castanets!

and I know just where mine are, now if I could just remember where I stashed my tambourine

The only caveat I have to make is that folks watching the Thin Man movies (and many other older movies as well) have to divorce themselves from current day sensibilities on drinking and smoking and treatment of women.

Oh my, and how can I forget one of the greats: The Quiet Man – John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, directed by John Ford. Truly one of my all time faves.

second the thin man series. myrna loy and william powell are hilarious.

for quick laughs this morning – read something by busted. here’s a great one that was recommended to me by kathryn in ma – Caturday: Banished

Great topic. After the notes last week, I also saw the movie and loved it. Our audience clapped at the end and everyone left smiling. Makes you want to break out in song, sort of like some of the Muppet movies.

Other faves…my daughter and I love Harold & Maude, though we discovered it at different times. I always love Breakfast at Tiffany’s (moon river, of course), a real oldie seldom seen, April Fool, Goodbye Girl…score to Best Little Whorehouse in TX, but movie not as good as the play. Great topic. And saw the first Rockie with a wonderful girl friend; unforgetable zest and hope.

Not the same, but I was in a hospital room yesterday where an old Lauren Bacall movie was on the tv…don’t know the movie, but I had never realized how completely beautiful she was…really stunning.

my cousin vinny absolutely cracks me up. joe pesci cracks me up, don’t know why, but he does.
secondhand lions-laugh and touch your heart. excellent movie.
adams family values. still cracks me up. one funny movie.

bette midler songs–i remember bette midler being interviewed years ago, said her husband is her husband, not one of her girlfriends, said she didn’t want her husband to be one of her girlfriends….then i grew a little older and understood what she meant.

my two best friends are married to each other, but he’s more like a brother and she’s more like a sister.

best friends here to run with, but i enjoy being at their houses hanging out…..and they enjoy hangin’, too. my one friend calls runnin’ around ’catbirdin’…..

the friend who made me laugh more than any other-leonard-died of aids….would call up from texas acting like he was taking a survey, i fell for it most of the time…..man, he was funny.

and this is one of my best friend’s favorite funny songs, found this the other day for her.
the swimming song by loudin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7J0nBXEvA4

but Nora Charles holds her own! I really enjoy those.

Oh, man, those were simpler times, eh?

Mad Mad Mad World is fabulous, I just exposed the kids to that a couple of weeks ago. Dick Shawn is the best, “I’m coming to save you mama!!!”

I was rubbing some ribs down for a cookout today and getting the kitchen ready, so I flipped on the TV and “Old School” and “Back to School” were both on. Some good funny parts in both, Frank the Tank is good before Ferrell got too full of himself.

As a college football junkie, Every Day Should Be Saturday is the funniest blog i have read. Keeps me laughing every day.

I was going to bring up Busted’s posts has on the list of what made me laugh this week. Thanks again for sharing that particularly funny cat one, the other night and now.
That busted can be one funny guy.

To Have and Have Not – the first Bogie and Bacall (with Walter Brennan and others including Hoaghy Carmichael playing Hong Kong Blues

the radio show ’wait wait don’t tell me’ makes me laugh out loud every single week. sometimes until i cry. it’s my favorite show, harry shearer is second.

now that i have highspeed i can listen to them on the computer……everyone knows on saturday at 11am i will not answer my phone, and sunday at 7.

and christy–my best friend has a group of friends and they’ve been meeting once a month for years. one of them, robin, just died and she made a ’robin’s nest’ keychain for all of them, with that shrinky plastic that you draw with markers and shrink it. is thick when finished…..they turned out great.

my mom did the same thing, had a group of friends that met once a month, no matter what…..there is only one left. she makes mom laugh.

hmmmm, films to watch with firedog gurlfriends . . .

all about eve

love actually

divine secrets of ya ya sisterhood

network

300
(as David pointed out yesterday, they completely f’d the story, but it is the most visually stunning thing I’ve seen in a long time) and us hetero gurlz love it for obvious reasons – pass the popcorn

I guess I got the biggest laughs out of The Big Lebowsky, among movies within the past decade. Also, I’ll watch reruns of Fawlty Towers anytime.

for some reason when you mentioned Harold & Maude I flashed on King of Hearts, twas a girlfriend in college who turned me on to that classic. Definitely time to revisit that one to compare it to my memory of it.

We’ve talked about some of the Chaplin classics here before. Funny, in a sweet, sad way.

Mel Brooks’ “the torquemada” in “history of the world part..something” does it for me.

—bit of compensation for my catholic up/downbringing.

The recent Gonzo is very good also. A fascinating story, but even more, some of the old footage (San Fran. in the ’60s, etc) is transporting. Interviews with very interesing people.

Singin’ in the Rain, Good News, Funny Face, The Lady Eve, Sullivan’s Travels, The Palm Beach Story, The Awful Truth, I Love Melvin, Give a Girl a Break, Pas Sur la Bouche, The Young Girls of Rochefort.

can’t believe i forgot steven banks’ home entertainment center, we’ve been quoting from it for years, and young frankenstein, raising arizona and blazing saddles, and ’run away run away’ and other monty pythons skits. my favorite fawlty towers was when basil had to run the hotel while his wife was in the hospital, i laughed until i cried, one thing after another…….saw it years and years ago, then they had them on again, got it on tape…..

and just discovered lewis black, best friend had me watch him on her computer, really funny. and deep. lots of his stuff on youtube. he was on charlie rose last night.

here’s steven banks…..i hope everyone takes time to watch this guy.
http://thomasbonneville.vox.co…..enjoy.html

and we went to see heywood banks for years before he started going on the bob and tom show or whatever it is….another man who made me laugh so hard i cried. he is sooooo funny. TOAST!

and someone sent me this the other day–
this was a good one,

The Wisdom of Larry The Cable Guy. .  
 

1. A day without sunshine is like night.

2. On the other hand, you have different fingers.

3. 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.

4. 99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

5. Remember, half the people you know are below average.

6. He who laughs last thinks slowest.

7. Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

8. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse
    gets the cheese in the trap. 

9. Support bacteria. They’re the only culture some people have.

10. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

11. Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.

12. If you think nobody cares, try missing a couple of payments.

13. How many of you believe in psycho-kinesis? Raise my hand.

14. OK, so what’s the speed of dark?

15. When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

16. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

17. How much deeper would the ocean be without sponges?

18. Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet
      engines.

19. What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?

20. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

21. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering,
    ’What the heck happened?’

22. Just remember – if the world didn’t suck, we would all fall off.

23. Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people
    appear bright until you hear them speak.

24. Life isn’t like a box of chocolates. It’s more like a jar of
     jalapenos. What you do today, might burn your butt
     tomorrow.
 
 
 ”GET-UR-DUN . . . .”
 

and jayt added a few-
“Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?”

“Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat-food?”

“Why don’t you ever see the headline ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?”

“Why do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering?”

Rodney Dangerfield’s “Back to School” is sophomoric, but funny as hell.

“I didn’t get where I am today” by not watching “The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin” every chance. Wonder why they don’t repeat it anymore. “Take a letter Joan”

You can find bits of it on their website.

In terms of girlfriends, I have to admit I have more virtual girlfriends here at the lake than in the outside the toobz world. I have them, but I talk more regularly here than with the others. I’m excited about renewing a friendship with I woman I’ve known for years. We even lived together for a bit. We’re currently working together (again) on a writing project.
Thank you girlfriends for being here.

Good Morning everyone.

Lucille Ball always makes me laugh, along with Granny from the Beverly Hillbillies. The B52’s can always make me want to dance, and Mel Brooks and Monty Python are my first choices for movie comedies. The Black Night, and the whole Abby Normal bit from Young Frankenstein are favorites are mine.

that is a great blog and I bless you for the introduction to it. Jeez, you and my Mom would have been great buddies quarter-betting on all the games. (Guess that would have to be adjusted for inflation ;)

hope all is well with the Twisteds!

Sophomoric is good. I actually think the best humor is that somewhere around the 3rd grade…just ridiculous.

Another great…Same Time Next Year. The aging couple, completely charming and fun.

I have quite a few girlfriends, from most of the decades of my adult life. I have no contact or closeness with any family, so these are truly valued relationships. However, like demi, most of my contact on a regular basis is with people here. None of my friends are as involved and passionate with politics as I am and frankly, they don’t want to “hear it”. So this is where I come for that kind of connection to others, and I appreciate each and every one of the people who come here.
And Christy.
i appreciate Christy.
:)

Nick and Nora do it for me. BFF and I used to go to veddy fancy places, drink martinis and have brittle converstions just for the hell of it.

Hated it when martinis became popular again..

Hey hi you!!

love the B-52s — just rediscovered my Deadbeat Club T-shirt, saw them at the Mann years ago, was a really fun concert.

Whoops! Forgot Love Me Tonight — pure unadulterated musical comedy heaven for the ”Isn’t It Romantic” number alone.

Plus : Road to Morocco, The Nutty Professor (the Jerry Lewis version of course) Hollywood or Bust and Artists and Models ( the two best Dean and Jerry flicks), Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter, The Girl Can’t Help It and (needless to say) Some Like It Hot.

Hey Elliot.

You so lucky to have that shirt! Was this the concert in 1990 with Ziggy Marley opening up? I was there.

yes!!

a few years ago, i was in the living room with my mom and heard the james brown preacher part of the blues brothers movie coming from the family room up the stairs-loud…..i said to mom, that’s the blues brothers! she said yes, and rolled her eyes, and said your dad watches it every time it is on……..i was floored. never knew that.

and i forgot one of my favorites-steve martin-classic-the jerk. and roxanne. and the one about producing a movie. and the kitty credit card skit. wonder if that’s on youtube……hmmmmmm.

I saw them at the Greek Theater. I can’t think of them without envisioning that beehive hairdo. Rock Lobster!

Alma, tell us. All modern women are jealous. Which of your magical wands got you Gustav and Walter and Franz?

That was a great show and so much fun! I just saw them in June in AC with Cyndi Lauper on the True Color tours. They still kick ass. And Keith is so just so hot.

Were you under the roof or in the lawn seating?

Absolutely Fabulous
Office Space
Any Monty Python
Nacho Libre

steve martin-cat handcuffs, the only one i could find–1:43
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVN855yazyY

The Dead Parrot Sketch

Still funny, 35 years after I first saw it.

And Vanessa Williams on Ugly Betty is always a treat to watch.

Base-8 is just like base-10, if you’re missing two fingers.
You can’t take three from two, two is less than three, so you look at the four in the eights place, change an eight to eight ones, add it to the two in the ones place, take away three, that’s seven. Now go back to the eights place ….

Sorry, I had new math in school. It tends to stick with you.

It’s such a joy to go mow the yard and return to enjoy some of the great posts.

Few movies can be recommended (a la ROFLMAO) for their full-length but-gusting humor. Even *Ghostbusters*, which has some classic stuff in the first half, runs dry in the second. So I prefer to look at separate scenes, riffs, or parts. One of my favorites is Joan Cusack’s Oscar-nominated part in *In and Out*: “Is EVERYBODY gay?!!”
An alternative is to look at individual actors; just about any scene with Eddie Murphy is gut-busting, but especially the opening (”read my lips”) from *Beverly Hills Cop*, or several from *Trading Places*, etc.

I was giggling yesterday over the LA Times’s review of the BMW X6: ‘as useless as a laminated pizza’ was their title. The rest of the review had a matching level of snarkiness, making it worth reading and hazardous to your keyboard.

Someone help me. Can’t think of her name…standup comedienne, sacreligeous, long red hair. We love her. ???? Why am I blanking?

Victor, Victoria! It has to have songs, some slapstick humor, and at least a great soundtrack to be my goto feel good, get up from the bad stuff kinda movie. Either a musical or an ending with a great song. Victor, Victoria has boyfriends who are really girl-boy friends – so a little mistaken identity is never amiss. “A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084865/

Kathy Griffin, who is very funny.

we were under the roof but to the back and to the right.

That must have been a wonderful concert paired up with Cyndi! Bet you were dancing the night away.

OT: anything about the Repub woman Obama is said to be considering for Veep? Just saw a blurb….

Thanks, MM. I like stand up comedy. If it’s funny, of course. Ha ha.

Elayne Boosler

Definitely good for great laughs – the really awful sci-fi movies. Especially the ones with giant bees or flies, etc. The acting is terrible, the glitches are visible and the fake scary things are truly bad. I can watch for hours and laugh.

What?? Man…wtf is going on?

Her too. Imagine. Funny red heads.

Nooooooooooo. That would not be funny. Seriously, that would not be a wise choice. Can you imagine how many more Dem women he would , er um, upset?

My vote for best “makes you pee in your pants because you laugh so hard” movie is…..the original “The In-laws” with Alan Arkin and Peter Falk. I can’t even start to list the scenes that make me start choking…but perhaps the “I’ve got flames on my car!! flames on my car!!” and “Serpentine, Shelly, serpentine!!” are probably the first two that come to mind.

our current ’stoopid’ fave – grandma’s boy

what a mess, but worth it just for the Dante scenes :D

So do I. I got nailed one night by a stand up though. I was with a bunch of former friends who were all couples and I was by myself. It got rather ugly, and I left after I spouted the longest string of obscentities in my life. I got a standing ovation when I left. My friends stayed and that’s why I’m not friends with any longer. So now I won’t sit so close to the stage.

I do love all the energy when there’s a good comedy show.

My 132 comment was a reply to demi@124.

Or, Yes, Prime Minister. Here’s a clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxdMFRwztl4

after years of walking by the teevee when my guys had on the Blue Collar Tour – finally joined them long enough to discover – Ron White – omg, I’d watch him read the damn phone book

You got into it with the person on stage? Really? Was there alcohol involved? *g*

He is so funny….when he talks about his in-laws…ROLMAO

c’mon over for a Mothra and Rhodan gigglefest !

Ron White is great and I could watch him forever.
I also love Peter Sellers – A Shot in the Dark has to be watched at least once a year – I laugh every time just like I did the first time.

Or when he talks about his wife calling all upset about the dog pooping on the floor……LOL

I have a complete set of the Godzilla movies. A must watch – especially the first one with the bad dubbing.

can’t believe i found this–two of my favorite men, singing and dancing.

gregory hines and steve martin tap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwsPcn4381g

met gregory hines. love him. rip.

bbl

don’t forget to compliment him on his art collection !

Ann Venemen is rumored to be on the list. I’m just not going to get all excited about that unless it happens. The interference of the Pentagon while he was on his trip really bothers me.

I have to say also that my daily dose of Howard Stern keeps me sane as well. Not for the faint of heart, but it is some funny shit.

who the fuck is anne veneman?

Booooooooo

Yeah! lol
Ron White is truly a guy I’d like to have a beer with,
and the other fav of mine is Lewis Black. He portrays the quality and intensity of crazy pissed I feel at our government these days in a way that just gets me reeling with laughter, holding my sides and gasping for air.

Ron White and Lewis Black. I wish they’d tour together. and call it Ron and Lewis! lol

they’ve denied it. continuing to interefere. continuing to lie. still, obama should have met with them privately. he fucked up.

My favorite Peter Sellers movie was “Being There”. Although I haven’t seen it in awhile, I still can think about it and laugh.

not black and white?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yhN1IDLQjo
LOL – Opinion Polls: Getting the results you want

Watched ‘Dumb and Dumber’ and thought ‘waaay too stupid’. Then the next day at work, I thought of the line ‘my bird’s head fell off’ (after the bad guys had ripped the head off as a warning) and I started to chuckle.

i was waitin’ to see who’d bite on that first.
BEERFART!
it was YOU!
lol!

right back at cha

one of my faves (forgive me Ehrenstein!)

Yes I did. No there was some before we got to the club, but it was a group show, this guy was the the second or third one in and there was no liquor served on the premise.

He was very homophobic, and his comments were all directed that way. It was my birthday and I was at a funeral earlier in the day. I got very little support from the people who I was there with too.

love it. i was trying to explain to my daughter what Monty python was and that’s the example I used. Luckily, I caught a rerunand that was on. I was screeming “Come here, come here!!” She chuckled a little and shook her head.

Ron White:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO-r889Zvwo

this is no bullshit. i had a feeling. a strong feeling i was being set up. what made me decide i wasn’t was that you put ron first so if you went by last names that would be white and black. but yeah. i went for it. i bite.

Yep, Tater Salad White is a hoot.

i’ll probably go with lewis black, too. for now. lemme keep thinkin’.

it’s a touchy year for which goes first. trying to be pc.
lolol

lol. is barack black and white or white and black?

Ron White plays a casino near where my daughter lives and she has been told that he is very good in the first show and that by the late show he is extremely well fortified with alcohol and is just wild and hilarious – and very “dirty.”

what you said. Also Kiss Me Kate, Funny Face, Summer Stock, To Be or Not to Be, Moonstruck, Adam’s Rib, that one dance in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Roxanne, Hard Day’s Night, Some Like It Hot, the Women, Philadelphia Story, Born Yesterday, Bells are Ringing, Groundhog Day, Fawlty Towers, Blazing Saddles, the Muppet Show, and Rocky and Bullwinkle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsHVLaNsCSg
Julie Andrews in Victor, Victoria, singing as a woman pretending to be a man doing a female impersonation. James Gardner as a Chicago gangster to falls in love with him/her.

had a take your daughter to the movies evening last night: went with punaisette to see The Dark Knight

Very funny movie.

E F Benson – Lucia and Mapp.

Indeed. Joan Cusack’s ”Is EVERYBODY GAY???!!!” is one of the funniest single moments in film history, because the laugh begins when she throws the door open BEFORE she delivers the line. She’s wonderful in ”Broadcast News” too.

And while we’re at it ANYTHING with Albert Brooks is a tonic. I especially love his ”nest egg” rant in ”Lost in America.”

Sounds like a tough day. It’s hard for me to imagine anyone with a specific bias against any particular group of people having to balls to share that from a stage. Shouldn’t be allowed. Either everything is up for humor or nothing at all. I can see why you call those people you were with Former Friends.

And do tell if you recommend seeing on the big screen or waiting for Netflix – inquiring minds want to know. ;~)

Housing bill passes Senate with Fannie/Freddie bail out okay (could be as high as 100B)…W to sign.

Wait until the “other” hundreds perhaps thousands of banks fail..Gawd…

Is it as dark and violent as they say?

I go to Love Actually, sometimes just for the great song at the end. I’m looking for the soundtrack for the movie. Or the Hugh Grant dance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3o1si3FICg

Just saw that. I was going to ask here if anyone feels guilty, us talking about funny and those poor Senators working overtime. Yep, I’m being funny.
FM and FM own 50% of all mortgages? Is that what I heard? What a mess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5PULZFSHfg
Last song from Love Actually.

npb and demi:
it’s dark and violent but well done and worthy of the big screen.

40% per Ian and others . . . yeah, I know, I feel better too

Yea it was a real eye opening experience on many levels. I doubt that guy made it very far in his career as a stand up. It was a memorable birthday I do have to say looking back at the symbolism of the events.

Good morning Christy! Lot of love for you out here. I’m honored to be your friend but draw the line at singing ABBA….

Am reading A Weekend to Change Your Life — great book.

Thanks. I’ve got 14 and 20 year old sons who want to see it. Okay. But, maybe I’ll sent them without me.

I can categorically state that I won’t get within thirty yards of anything ABBA related, yet daughter and wife will have a good time at the movie. Our household barely survived one ABBA-fueled jag a few years ago, with the two of them singing into mop handles.

I’ll watch baseball on TV or read blogs or something.

In this category, my favorite perhaps is:

Manos: The Hands of Fate

This was an MST3K standby.

Interesting which events in our lives stand out as memorable , isn’t it? Not always the fun, laugh a minute ones.

left to my own devices I’d have gone to see Tell No One, but Dark Knight was certainly watchable.

La Cage aux Folles cracks me up. Later version w/Robin Williams “The Birdcage” pretty funny too.

Certainly timely – republicans and homophobia.

When I was in the AF in Hawaii, I got called on stage by a couple of comedians but it was fortunately, in good fun.

The first time, I was the only man sitting in the middle of the first full row with four women on one side and five on the other. I remember being asked how I got so lucky.

The other time was for a show where the comedian had done a take-off on Kenny Roger’s song Lucille, pretending that Rogers had gotten the idea after seeing some one local (using Pidgin) and had just cleaned the wording up for the Mainland Haoles. (My date was in the “Lucille” role while I was her bereft lover/husband – like I say, it was in fun. Can’t imagine having to deal with some homphobic id10t on my b’day)

Haven’t seem that one but if you want to see the very worst movie every made try Blood Surf. By the time you are about 30 minutes in you hope that the giant croc will eat all of them – not just the characters but the actors themselves. truly bad and funny.

Thanks cbl2!!! at 145
am just beginning to explore ’the you tube’…….wow. hadn’t thought about looking up gregory until i saw the steve martin clip…saw him twice. first time at a small arts center where i knew everyone. gave him one of my lidded pots….porcelain. he took it with him. ehrenstein doesn’t like him? huh.

Howdy, everybody!

I dunno, Twain. Krocodylus (Blood Surf) has a 3.4/10 rating on IMDB. Manos gets 1.8/10.

Please tell me what IMDB is – thanks.

Oh my. There’s someone left who hasn’t heard about IMDB? ;=D

Internet Movie Database

It’s a fantastic destination for movie lovers. Give it a try.

I will – thanks so much.

lewis black-the old testament, 10 minutes. i really love this man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGrlWOhtj3g

“The Producers” , Lewis Black, Goldie Hawn, all the Laugh In episodes, English Comedy especially “Murder by Death”, Ellen Degeneres, Gildna Radner, “The Illusionists”, Led Zepplin, and Led Zepplin as classical music, classical music, Shikira (wish I could do my hips like that), Santana, Rickey Martin, Rob Zombie, Frank Sanatra, Bett Midler, Barbara Strisand, Elvis. I love ‘em all.
Phyllis Culbert
San Antonio, TX

forgot one–british humor-

calendar girls

really good movie.

and cbl-thanks, had forgotten about him-just recently found out who ron white is–at best friends’ house, we watched him on cable……..really liked him. now i have CAble and can watch it myself!!!

have a great day, pups.

Okay D — girlfriend — you did it. You made me laugh out loud. Ten hairs away from being a baboon and because it’s really hard. ha ha ha.
Thanks and a Hug.

Greatest TV series of all time — The Muppets. Enormous high quality variety in music and guest artists, wrapped in hysterically funny silliness. Timely when first broadcast, and the years have shown it to be timeless.

zebra kinda guy, is my thinkin’
:)

Thanks for the recommendation.

Nunsense with Rue McClanahan is one of my favorites . . . enough so that I actually purchased it instead of merely renting!

Thought you might enjoy this “World’s Dumbest Dog” at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..re=related

Late to the Lake today, but the kitty’s had his meds and was a good boy, his sis took a much-needed (apparently) nap on my lap before we played fetch and catch with her toys, my honey finished painting the kitchen walls without dripping a drop(!), so we have hope, yet, to see and use our cabinets again, if we can just find it all. (cabinet contents all over the bloomin’ place, so we wouldn’t have to untape everything any time someone wanted a spoon, etc.. sigh. – What. A. Mess! heh)

Annnnd my sweet manic catbird and the missus fledged their younguns this week, amid much commotion and hoopla. So now I’ve got all 4 of them sweetly begging me to leave THEIR blueberries alone.

Oh, and we’re finding that planting a “butterfly garden”, even a roughly overgrown and hedge-row-ish one, WORKS! Every year is better and better, as we turn more and more formerly-mowed-lawn into “edge” habitat, sculpted with Bee Balm and Purple Cone Flower, Red Osier Dogwood, Common Milkweed & Butterflyweed, Viburnums, Catnip, Staghorn Sumac, Crabapples, Mulberry, Black Raspberries, Ironweed, Queen Anne’s Lace, Yarrow, Service Berry, Trumpet Vine, all manner of Golden Rods. Some plants bought or moved, a lot simply “volunteers”. All of the copious honeybees and bumblebees, butterflies and other fascinating critters are here by their own choice.

New this year, Great Spangled Fritillary, Imperial Moth, joining the Milkweed Tiger Moth, Monarchs, Swallowtails, Red-spotted Purples, Mourning Cloaks,Hummingbird Moths etc etc etc. All arriving on their own. None imported by human hand.

Plant it and they will come! Woot!

My gift to myself today is to refuse to think about mccaint, except to have written this sentence.

*CLAP OFF!* ;->

MOD, perhaps this is too long, but FDL’ers seem to have an affinity for nature.
GOD¹S LANDSCAPING PLAN & SUBURBANITES

GOD: Frank, you know all about gardens and nature, what in the world is
going on down there in the U.S.? What in the world happened to the
dandelions, violets, thistles and the stuff I started eons ago? I had a
perfect no-maintenance garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of
soil, withstand drought and multiply with abandon. The nectar from the
long lasting blossoms attracts butterflies, honey bees and flocks of
songbirds. I expected to see a vast garden of color by now. All I see
are patches of green.

ST. FRANCIS: It’s the tribes that settled there, Lord. They are called
the Suburbanites. They started calling your flowers ”weeds” and went to
great lengths to kill them and replace them with grass.

GOD: Grass? But it is so boring, it’s not colorful. It doesn’t attract
butterflies, bees or birds, only grubs and sod worms. It’s temperamental
with temperatures. Do these Suburbanites really want grass growing
there?

ST. FRANCIS: Apparently so, Lord. They go to great pains to grow it and
keep it green. They begin each spring by fertilizing it and poisoning
any other plant that crops up in the lawn.

GOD: The spring rains and the warm weather probably makes the grass grow
really fast. That must make the Suburbanites very happy.

ST. FRANCIS: Apparently not, Lord. As soon as it has grown a little,
they cut it-sometimes two times a week.

GOD: They cut it? Do they bale it like hay?

ST. FRANCIS: Not exactly Lord. Most of them rake it up and put it in
bags.

GOD: They bag it? Why? Is it a cash crop? Do they sell it?

ST. FRANCIS: No sir, just the opposite. They pay to throw it away.

GOD: Now let me get this straight: They fertilize it to make it grow and
when it does grow, they cut it off and pay to throw it away?

ST. FRANCIS: Yes, sir.

GOD: These Suburbanites must be relieved in the summer when we cut back
on the rain and turn up the heat. That surely slows the growth and saves
them a lot of work.

ST. FRANCIS: You aren’t going to believe this Lord. When the grass
stops growing so fast, they drag out hoses and pay more money to water it
so they can continue to mow it and pay to get rid of it.

GOD: What nonsense! At least they kept some of the trees. That was a
sheer stroke of genius, if I do say so myself. The trees grow leaves in
the spring to á provide beauty and shade in summer. In the autumn they
fall to the ground and form a natural blanket to keep the moisture in the
soil and protect the trees and bushes. Plus, as they rot, the leaves
become compost to enhance the soil.
It’s a natural circle of life.

ST. FRANCIS: You’d better sit down, Lord. As soon as the leaves fall,
the Suburbanites rake them into great piles and pay to have them hauled
away.

GOD: No way!! What do they do to protect the shrubs and tree roots in
the winter to keep the soil moist and loose?

ST. FRANCIS: After throwing the leaves away they go out and buy
something called mulch. They haul it home and spread it around in place
of the leaves.

GOD: And where to they get this mulch?

ST. FRANCIS: They cut down the trees and grind them up to make mulch.

GOD: Enough!! I don’t want to think about this anymore. Saint
Catherine, you’re in charge of the arts. What movie have you scheduled
for us tonight?

ST. CATHERINE: ”Dumb and Dumber,” Lord. It’s a real stupid movie
about…

GOD: Never mind — I think I just heard the whole story from Saint
Francis!

How did you get started on the “butterfly garden” project? A church group here is thinking about that project,

Seeds of Change, which I heart very much, has a certified organic butterfly garden seed collection for $20

Thanks. I had not known that resource. ;)

ok, so I missed the thread. But just in case anybody comes ’round later, here’s some Steven Wright:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYffXv7jMYQ

for fans of a twisted sense of humor.

I’m late but I’m adding my movie. The original Producers.

What a positive thread…joining late and borrowed some of the above. Thanks for the question and reminder:

Some sources of Joy:

Midnight Run (could watch this over and over, DeNiro and Grodin, what a sensational odd couple)
AbFab (adopting the Rumanian baby episode especially)
Compromising Positions (old Susan Sarandon movie about murder of a LI dentist)
The Winslow Boy with Jeremy Nortrup
Midnight Lace with Doris Day
4 Weddings and a Funeral
most Hitchcock movies (especially Shadow of a Doubt and Rear Window)
Closer with Kyra Sedgewick
Columbo with Peter Falk
As Time Goes By with Judi Dench
Fawlty Towers with John Cleese
Randy Newman singing “I’m Different”
Bette Midler singing “You’ve Got To Have Friends”
Tracey Chapman singing “Fast Car”

:)

(Am old enough to have appreciated Tom Lehrer. What a brilliant wit. That song “Who’s Next” about the bomb… ended with Iran, wasn’t it? He saw that coming…didn’t he?)

ooops… The Winslow Boy with Jeremy Northam and Rebecca Pidgeon…sorry

Nothing so great as a good laugh. I still laugh over Woody Allen, and my son and I had a jag of hysteria watching Charlie Chaplin in City Lights. Chaplin was just so brilliant.

Of modern films, again with my son, we watch Shawn of the Dead for a reliable series of laughs every time; or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

I know what you mean about girlfriends, Christy. I have really only one close woman friend, but I wouldn’t trade that friend for 100 others. She possesses an absolutely delicious laugh, and even if I’m in the next room and don’t know what she’s laughing about, if I hear her laugh, it cracks me up.

hysterical…thanks!

Hi RevDeb.

Just got back here. And then company just arrived. Shoot!

Will try to revisit the subject as soon as I can get to it.

Basically, I looked up in various books and especially on the net to find out what kinds of plants attract butterflies (and birds too). We’ve been doing this sort of thing for years, trying to transform our 8 acres of field and woods into a wildlife-friendly place. First concentrated on migrating birds, and getting as many of the resident species as possible to nest here.

But butterflies are a new project for us, because I have always been mostly a veggie-oriented gardener. Learning to leave ALONE tomato hornworms and all the damage they do was an early dip into the pool. (Why? Well, because there’s a wasp species that attacks them and lays their eggs in the horn worm. If you develop a healthy population of those wasps, you don’t have more than the occasional one to contend with. Ain’t nature wunnerful?!)

I had read that all you need to do is plant flowers that butterflies like, and they’ll show up on their own. It’s true, by gum. There is NO need to raise them yourself. They are highly attracted to certain plants, and if they are in your yard, you’ll have the butterflies.

I would suggest googling “butterfly gardening” or some such thing. That should turn up LOTS of good sites with planting suggestions.

We just kept adding bushes and perennials and some annuals that we read were very attractive to wildlife, and found places to fit them in. I think I listed some of our favorites upthread, but there are lots more.

Over the years, we have begun mowing less and less of our “lawn”, keeping some very neatly mowed but increasing the portion of our property that provides the “edge” type of habitat that’ll bring lots of birds to nest and feed.

It’s important for lots of reasons, not just the butterflies, but organic gardening is best. If someone insists on spraying, using powerful weed-killers, etc., they can forget the butterfly gardening. Also, if you insist on having plants with absolutely perfect leaves, to the point that you feel the need to use pesticides on them, that won’t work either. Butterflies have a larval stage, of course, and those caterpillers chomp on things. duh *g*

Some of the relevant websites and field guides are excellent at listing information on what plants are natural hosts for each species. Larvae are often attracted to a whole different host than the adults. Some adults don’t even feed at all. Others (e.g., Tiger Swallowtail) will be fluttering through your property all summer ;->

I hope this helps a little. I must dash right now, but will try to get more specific some time.

Oh, and a huge bonus we found we gained from encouraging more “edge” areas (taller grass and shrubs, etc.): absolutely beautiful dragonflies and damselflies moved in to the area. They often are kinda territorial, fly specific routes back and forth, and pick certain favorite perches to sit on for long enough, that they’re as much fun as birds to see through your binocs. Most of them breed around water. But we don’t have a pond or any standing water. Apparently having a few neighbors who have ponds is good enough to attract them and they seem to do most of their feeding at our place.

Thanks-as always- Christy and everyone!

Wow, Thank you very much. Will see what else I can find out.

PS: I am so glad someone mentioned The Producers; I had a friend who loved, outrageously loved, that movie, Zero, etc. He would marvelously break out in the Springtime song. Just ridiculously fun!!!

demi at 198–i like ’i have thoughts’–his expression, etc……cracks me up.

thanks for the steven wright jayt–when i got the cable guy’s one-liners the other day, reminded me of him.

and ohbytheway phyllis mentioned goldie hawn–overboard……cute and funny. is on right now on cable. seen it a kazillion times. watching it again.