Quite frankly, it's a lousy gig. When the Academy goes with a host who they think will bring an "edge", like David Letterman, Seth McFarlane, or Chris Rock, ratings go up and then people whine that they did the job that they were supposed to do. Then when the Academy goes with someone softer, like Ellen Degeneres,…

I remember the time on Howard Stern's Sirius show where "Sal The Stockbroker" boasted that he turned down an offer from Sam Simon, who was a frequent guest on Stern's show, to sit down with him to work with his comedy writing skills, saying that Sam couldn't "Teach me anything about comedy that I don't know." Howard,…

Mark Maron is also a fan. he mentioned that while he was disappointed that Tosh declined to do his podcast, he understood why, as according to Maron, Tosh is like his hero David Letterman, who is a control freak when it comes to his career in terms of promotion.

I plan on building a time machine, so that I can send Kanye West back to Woodstock, in the middle of the Who's set, just to watch Pete Townshend knock him off the stage with his guitar.

"NBC, we're the network that used to have Seinfeld! Remember?"

Hartman's "Mastermind" sketch is a classic. And Aykroyd's Nixon wasn't bad, especially in the sketch where Christopher Lee was attempting to destroy Nixon's memoirs. The way Aykroyd kept hammering away that the price of the book was "Nineteen dollars and ninety five cents." slayed me.

Could your theory involve the fact that the King family controls the rights to MLK's intellectual material, and that they usually demand a high fee to use it?

I'm hoping that Chevy Chase will perform the monologue that Michael O'Donoghue wrote for him, that referenced his horrible taste in movies, his coke habit, and his looking like a "sea slug." To his credit, Chase was willing to do it, but the censors blanched, as Chevy was to state that the title of his upcoming movie…

Between working on his upcoming Broadway play, and nailing starlets on a mountain of money, I don't think Larry has the time for it.

I read a comment recently on which someone commented that it took 2 hours for Shearer to get into makeup to play Ronald Reagan, all Dan Aykroyd did to get into character was to slick back his hair. Guess who's Reagan was more memorable?

And from what I've read this morning after the blowback they've received, Budweiser is backpedaling faster than Lance Armstrong on speed. According to their mouthpiece, they're not "Anti craft, they're pro Bud."

I was reading a piece on Mark Evanier's blog after Joan Rivers died, in which he commented that Carson and the execs at NBC weren't happy on Joan and her husband Edgar trading on the Tonight Show name in terms of using it for promotion. It was the fact that Rivers went to Fox without any kind of a heads up that a…

That sounds a lot like the monologue that Michael O'Donoghue wrote for Chevy Chase when he made his last hurrah on the show as a writer in the mid 80's. It referenced Chases' horrible choices in movie roles, his coke problem, and his "looking like a sea slug." The capper was the ending line Chevy was to deliver,…

"I won't write for felt." Michael O'Donoghue, on the Muppets.

I kind of liked Spade, mainly as he was a good stand up comic. And he killed off the "Hollywood Minute" character in style, with the assistance of Steve Martin.

Besides David Spade snarking on him in the Hollywood Minute, I remember Billy Crystal saying some things that were not too complimentary about Murphy, who said some things that were less than kind about Crystal in his interview in Playboy. IIRC, Playboy had to cut some of Murphy's comments about Crystal, as they rose…

Jerry drove 900 Convertibles, not a 9000.

This was handled in a similar fashion a few years ago, when it was noticed that the Rolling Stones' "Anybody Seen My Baby" sounded a lot, a real lot like K.D. Lang's "Constant Craving." Lang and her writing partner were given a writing credit with Jagger/Richards, and that was it.

Anne Beatts seemed to bring out the worst in everyone. She was romantically involved with Michael O'Donoghue when they both worked at the National Lampoon, and was complaining about something or other relating to her job. O'Donoghue called the editor of the Lampoon, Matty Simmons during his Super Bowl party and went…

I remember reading an interview with Warren Zevon, in which he talked about Kim Fowley producing his first album, Wanted Dead Or Alive in 1970. Fowley asked Warren, "Are you ready to wear leather and get wildly effed by teenage chicks?" Zevon said that he answered in the affirmative.