And I will again pitch my sequel, "Rogen and Franco Smoked the Mummy."

It sounds like "Crocodile Rock" with the melody taken out.

My favorite cult film, "Forbidden Zone," has a great, nonsensical sequence where a Clutch Cargo mouth is superimposed over a Mouseketeer referee in a boxing gym.

When I was a child, under the influence of a particularly severe fever, I had a very strange dream. I dreamed that as I lay in bed, asleep with my eyes open, the Devil Himself came into my bedroom and just started dancing madly. Wild, stupid-looking, frenzied dancing to music only he could apparently hear. Finally, he…

I wish I could have seen the Los Angeles run of the stage adaptation of "The Exorcist," with special effects by magician Teller, starring TV stars Harry Groener and Brooke Shields. I heard mixed things, but I suspect it's the kind of story that works well live- almost a haunted house/classic spookshow atmosphere.

Question for the class: What's your favorite oddball candy of choice? I'm personally a sucker for Albert's Fruit Chews in their variety of flavors. You may know Albert's as "parade candy:" those hard, almost ribbed squares of individually wrapped taffy that are often thrown from parade floats. It's very tasty, subtler…

I had a neighbor who was of an undisclosed Christian sect that loved holidays but couldn't, in good conscience, do Halloween. Their compromise is still legendary in the old neighborhood:

TRUE SHOWBIZ TALES #25: I have developed a strange association with hard gumdrop candies, particularly Dots and Jujubees, in my side career as professional actor. It started when I was cast as the Newscaster in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," a character who only appears in the first act and the opening scene of…

All her looks were too sad.

Are you a Pennsylvanian? I work in the medical world, and am always amused by records indicating Dr. Death.

What kinda chip you got in there- a Dorito?

Creeping like a communist, it's knocking at our doors!
Turning all our children into hooligans and whores!

He sometimes appears in teams of up to 20 to fight Link or Pikachu.

Can we get Andy Daly as "Funster Frank" Wilson, the desk drone who actually brought Capone down?

Honestly, me. Beyond the tried-and-true Old Testament stuff, Jewish mythology is FREAKY. We've seen a million movies in Ancient Greece, but a sword and sandals drama with demon slaying and Hebrew mythic beasts sounds kind of awesome. Beyond serving as inspiration for some anime deep cuts, Hebraic mythology is an…

It gets way weirder, in both good and bad ways, the more of his stuff you hear.

I've been thinking about doing a creature-feature show on YouTube- it surely wouldn't get huge numbers, but it could be a fun way to pay tribute to a lost chunk of the past, and also spend some fun quality time with some of my oddball friends from the worlds of comedy and theatre, in outlandish costumes, drinking and…

When I was in high school circa the mid-2000s, our choir and music teacher had a notoriously laissez-faire take on school rules, and she opened up the music lab to her students as their new study hall location. Kids were making out, playing multiplayer online games in the composition lab, watching pirated movies…

John Belushi was the accomplished comic who just wanted to be taken seriously as a dramatic actor, but never was. Jim Belushi is the accomplished dramatic actor who just wants to be taken seriously as a comic, but never is.

He had about ten albums… Weird mix of horror limericks, pop song parodies, and vaudeville type numbers about life in supernatural Transylvania.