Yeah, I don't think anyone ever thought Sheen was a choirboy (and I believe this was after his connection with Heidi Fleiss), but at the time Downey was more notorious.for weird public behavior.  He was mocked in the L.A. episode also - "Look!  Robert Downey Jr.'s shooting a movie!  A shootout with the cops!"  "Mom,…

Yeah, I don't think anyone ever thought Sheen was a choirboy (and I believe this was after his connection with Heidi Fleiss), but at the time Downey was more notorious.for weird public behavior.  He was mocked in the L.A. episode also - "Look!  Robert Downey Jr.'s shooting a movie!  A shootout with the cops!"  "Mom,…

I do remember the Deschanel episode but have no memory of (probably never saw) the Gellar, Hathaway, Portman, or Silverman episodes.  I was lost during their cameos and had no idea who they were supposed to be.  Where was Meryl Streep?

I do remember the Deschanel episode but have no memory of (probably never saw) the Gellar, Hathaway, Portman, or Silverman episodes.  I was lost during their cameos and had no idea who they were supposed to be.  Where was Meryl Streep?

This is the one with "Mary Bignal's wonderful jump," correct? Kind of timely for this week - she won the long jump gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, one of four British golds that year, all in track and field (a.k.a. athletics) events.

This is the one with "Mary Bignal's wonderful jump," correct? Kind of timely for this week - she won the long jump gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, one of four British golds that year, all in track and field (a.k.a. athletics) events.

I'm pretty sure the guy who registered this name is an imposter. The original was eccentric but relatively coherent.

Apparently (I've never seen it) Arrest and Trial, the short-lived sixties show on which Wolf modeled Law and Order, had a police detective hero for the first half and a defense attorney hero for the second half.  That sounds like a potentially interesting premise -  I assume that some weeks the defendant was guilty…

Apparently (I've never seen it) Arrest and Trial, the short-lived sixties show on which Wolf modeled Law and Order, had a police detective hero for the first half and a defense attorney hero for the second half.  That sounds like a potentially interesting premise -  I assume that some weeks the defendant was guilty…

I remember a Who's the Boss episode centered on Wilson Phillips tickets.

I remember a Who's the Boss episode centered on Wilson Phillips tickets.

The thing is, though, the idea of "conservatives are humorless" is a fairly recent development.  The English satirical tradition from Swift and Pope to Evelyn Waugh was mostly conservative - mainly devoted to mocking the new-fangled deviations from the superior old ways. American satirists such as Twain and Bierce and…

The thing is, though, the idea of "conservatives are humorless" is a fairly recent development.  The English satirical tradition from Swift and Pope to Evelyn Waugh was mostly conservative - mainly devoted to mocking the new-fangled deviations from the superior old ways. American satirists such as Twain and Bierce and…