Kliph Nesteroff moderated a panel on George Carlin with Kelly Carlin, Lewis Black, Lizz Winstead, and Larry Wilmore. As part of that, he Tweeted a photo of the script of a bit that Carlin did as a guest on David Letterman's show, a follow up to his "Great New York Restaurants" that he'd done on the show, along with…

Has "World's Blankiest Blanks" been cancelled? It was your one stop shop to catch Chelsea Peretti, Nick DePaolo, Chuck Nice, and Judy Gold tee off on nitwits caught in the act of nitwittery. Though you also had to suffer through Leif Garrett, Tanya Harding, and Frank Stallone to get to the good snark.

I watched the first segment of Chevy's late night show. And I managed to see writer Joe Queenan interviewed before they pulled the plug. He told the story about it in one of his books. According to him, it wasn't a horrible experience, but he was more jazzed at meeting Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello, who holding…

Does the upcoming LBJ film for HBO, "All The Way" count?

Was this around the time that Chevy was being considered as a possible replacement for Johnny, and made some snotty comment about the idea? Which of course, endeared him to Johnny, who quipped, "Chevy Chase couldn't ad lib a fart a a baked bean dinner."

Yep, and don't even talk about the damage that American Skin (41 Shots) did to Bruce Springsteen's career. You don't hear much about him these days.

Fun with trivia. Jack Webb and Lew Wasserman were at a screening for Spielberg's "Duel" at Universal. When the movie ended and the lights came up, Webb turned to Wasserman and said, "Lew, if you don't get that kid under an exclusive deal, you're nuts. "Wasserman replied, "I'm going to call him right now and get…

I remember reading that Tony Randall was a Letterman and Conan favorite, as a last minute guest since he lived really close to 30 Rock.

Everyone who's intererested in "Old Hollywood" should check out Niven's biographies. Gable would hole up in the barracks head at night to memorize flight textbooks, as he had a photographic memory. Also Gable & Carol Lombard took Niven under their wing after his first wife, Primmie died in a freak accident. When…

I remember reading in one of David Niven's autobiographies that Gable told him that he always kept a sidearm with him whenever he flew a mission so that he would have the chance to kill himself, if his plane went down over Germany and he survived so that Hitler, "Couldn't put me in a cage and trot me around the…

One of my fondest reading experiences was an article about the making of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" was how Lee Marvin and Woody Strode would bust Wayne's chops about his service, or more accurately, lack of service during WWII. Both Marvin & Strode were Marines during the war.

I remember reading a biography of Universal/MCA's Lew Wasserman in which he and the executives at the studio didn't get "Animal House" at all, but it made a lot of money, which made the studio happy. They were less thrilled at the "Blues Brothers and to a lesser extent, "1941" as they found the scripts incoherent and…

The DVD with the extended and uncensored version is even better, if just for the bit on how he managed to offend the cities of Cleveland and New Orleans with material that they didn't like.

According to one of the reports about the estate and who gets what, Minnesota law dictates that children inherit first, then parents, then siblings, and further down the family line. He didn't do himself any favors by not doing any kind of estate planning. Another story I've read stated that he was so paranoid about…

To be fair, Prince's not having a will leaves his heirs in a bind. Since the top Federal and State tax rate for an estate that isn't protected by a will or trusts is around 56% combined, they won't have much of a choice but to start pumping out merch and music to pay the tax man. Fun with trivia, when Michael…

The late Robert Schimmel had a Ronald Reagan/Alzheimer's joke, "So, what does Ronald Reagan think about when he reads the morning paper and sees that he has Alzhemier's Disease? Is it, Holy Shit! Or, Hey, Honey! Ronald Reagan has Alzheimer's!" I don't remember anyone getting indignant over that one.

That movie was on the Decades cable channel a few weeks ago. It was pretty bad, even by low cost cable movie standards.

One one of the nuttier ideas in the further deification of St. Ronald was to put his image on the dime, replacing FDR. That was too much for even the Reagan family, which shot that idea down immediately.

To me, the Phil Hartman/Reagan "Mastermind" sketch was his absolute high point on SNL, and he had a lot of them.

A similar thing happened to Dwight Eisenhower in 1957, after he had been sworn in for a second term. He had what was is now believed to be a fair sized TIA, and was having trouble with his speech, resulting in aphasia. Richard Nixon was informed by Eisenhower's Chief Of Staff to be ready to assume office if the…