The Tashlin directed Lewis movies are gold. And any of Jerry's self directed films up to "The Family Jewels" are worth checking out. After that, he kind of lost the plot when it came to scripts. Those are at least watchable, from a directorial point of view, but not that funny, except for the last few minutes of…

Jack Benny and George Burns come to mind.

I know who they were. It was the theory of Evanier's piece that because they didn't evolve, they didn't get as much work as Reiner, Van Dyke, or Shelley Berman. who was also cited as a comedian who evolved as his career went on.

That's it!

RuPaul's handling of Berle was a piece of surgery worthy of Johnny Carson or David Letterman. It was that good.

I remember reading a piece Mark Evanier wrote on his blog about how comedians fell into two categories as they got older. The first one is in which people like Dick Van Dyke and Carl Reiner fall into, in that they are still turning down work into their 90's, and the other is occupied by Lewis, and was occupied by…

I remember reading recently where Norman Lear was going to do a reboot of "One Day At A Time" with an Hispanic cast. That might be an improvement, as the original stank on ice. And while Lear is rebooting his old shows, how about an update of Hot L Baltimore, for HBO this time out?

I find it odd, especially after reading where Carroll O'Connor wanted to reprise the Archie Bunker in a special, being semi-retired and driving a limousine part time and expounding on the world situation, as only Archie could. Lear vetoed the idea, and that pretty much ended the relationship between the two men.

I remember Bruce Vilanch mentioned in an interview that the Oscar show producers paid for comedian's personal writers, and he cited Johnny Carson in particular. Carson didn't receive any payment as such, other than union scale as a writer and performer. It worked out for Carson in the long run, as he was so…

Yep, his "Babe Ruth" bit magically appeared in the middle of "Trainwreck."

From what I understand, part of it could be laid at the feet of her writing partner, who she fired after he made some horrible remarks online. A lot of comics believed that he was the one that did the "heavy lifting" as he was hot to be famous. But if you're writing and co writing material, you might want to double…

I thought "Snatched" was going to be about Amy Schumer's alleged joke stealing from Wendy Liebman, Kathleen Madigan ,Tammy Pescatelli, Daniel Tosh, and the late Patrice O'Neal.

Dennis Miller had a great line before he went right wing nuts about pedophiles that applies to the Joe Friday of Austin pizza investigations. "If you feel that you have to do physical harm to someone, just take yourself out instead. God will forgive you for taking one for the team."

I'm glad his mother saw the shirt before he attempted to leave the house. Then again, she saw me as the voice of reason in our friendship, which was kind of scary in it's own way.

I had a childhood friend who joined the Air Force when we left High School. A couple of years later,we were both in town, he was home on leave, and I was on spring break from college, so we decided to catch a movie and go for lunch. I went to his house to pick him up, and he came out, wearing a T shirt he had bought…

Myrtle Beach,SC used to have a lot of shops that sold shirts similar to the "Trix" one. IIRC, the city finally passed an ordinance where they had to be out of sight, similar to the "X" rated section of a video store, as the city didn't want to offend the tourists.

No, Rip Taylor's funnier. Much, much funnier.

I'm from Ohio, and while Kasich is an uber tool, he was smart enough to turn down the VP slot, after he was told by Trump's people that he would be effectively be President, as Trump saw himself more as a "National Inspiration." Also, I like the fact that of all the 2016 Republican candidates, only he and Lindsey…

Didn't Cohen's recent album come out after the Grammy nominating deadline? That might explain it's absence.

Paul Mooney said pretty much the same thing about Richards, that he was the absolute opposite of a racist. Long story short, Mooney was of the opinion that Richards was trying to transition into stand up comedy, and he had no idea how to handle a heckler, so he decided to say the most shocking thing possible to shut…