Oh look. It's a ghost. Yawn.

Do any of you watch and enjoy the T.V. shows Ghosthunters, Ghost Adventures, or The Scariest Places On Earth? If so, sorry if I offend you with what I am about to say. First of all, I don't believe in ghosts, so that's part of my disdain for these shows, but not only that, these shows don't even provide a cheap thrill! They're actually more comedies than anything that's thrilling!
I hate these dumb shows with all my heart! These shows are ridiculous! They are dumb. (Have I said dumb enough?)
Let me count the ways these shows are dumb for each dumb show. Maybe you'll agree or nod your head with a knowing-"yeah that guy is telling it like it is about those f#$^% up, sh!#@ headed, mother@$%^&% shows." Well, maybe you won't say it exactly like that, but something along those lines. Well here goes. I am stating my case.

Ghosthunters: (My wife likes to watch Ghosthunters so I try not to make fun of it too much in front of her!)

1. When Joe the Plumber lookalike Jason Hawes says with a straight face, "this may be a residual haunting" to some homeowner, that's just.....dumb. Residual haunting....

2. When Grant Wilson says "This is an EVP. (Electronic Voice Phenomenon) This will record any supernatural voices that our human ears will not pick up." I would love to be on the set to tell him, "Yeah right!" "That's probably your 2 year-old playing with his toys, and that other noise is Jason taking a crap!"


3. The show is horribly edited-It's choppy as hell. Homeowners with "ghosts" are asked something about their experiences with "their" ghosts, at the beginning or the end of the segment, so they give them about a minute or two to talk, then baldy and greasy will cut them off, by jumping out of their seats and say, "ok lets set up," or will shake their hand at the end of segment. It seems all interactions on this show are like this. Even the ghosts are cut off. They could be experiencing a lot of "phenomena," but still, Joe the Plumber and Grant will tell everyone to start packing up-they gotta go! Caspar be damned.

The Scariest Places on Earth:
1. hosted by Linda Blair and narrated by Zelda Rubinstein of Poltergeist fame-Zelda tries to sound scary, but really-those voiceovers of hers! They make her sound like she just got up from a long nap! And poor Linda sounds tired and in need of a nap!


2. The "scary" parts consist of showing people's faces, filmed with nightvision lenses, screaming about something they just heard and which the TV audience does not hear. "Arrrgh! Did you hear that?!" (no we didn't) "Oh God! Did you just hear THAT?!" (again we didn't hear THAT either) That's pretty much it-just repeat that 10 times.


Ghost Adventures:
Boy-imaginative title huh? This one is the worst in my opinion. It consists of an idiot (Zak Bagans) yelling at ghosts with his stupid, greasy, shitty hair. "Hey dude-ghost! Come on out and fight like a real ghost, dude!" This guy is irritating! Most of the time, Bagans will hear something that only he can hear, or be tapped on the shoulder (very convienient that only Zak seems to get tapped or nudged by ghosts!) He'll jump up and shout "Dude! Did you just hear that?!" Most of the time no one has, but sometimes there is the faint sound of something, maybe someone's stomach growling.

This blog did an excellent job of describing this show and Bagans-and I concur wholeheartedly, so I will let you click the link to check it. His description of Mr. Bagans is perfect. (the description of this show is about 1/2 way down the article) C'mon, Ghost! Wait, Wait, I Didn't Mean It! - Sheldon The ...


I would love to see a parody of these shows... oh, wait a minute. Here's a couple of clips from YT comedy group Fried Nothing Television friednothing

Classic Corddry

There are and have been some really, really funny people staffing The Daily Show. One of these very funny personalities was Rob Corddry. His angry facial expressions, ridiculous sight gags, with him often taking a swipe at dumbass John Stossel's whiny "Give Me a Break!" reports are funnier than you know what! I mean, come, on!

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Unity. And big fat white women.

We have just been through one of the most contentious election periods in our nation's history. (and that contentiousness ain't over just yet!) What we need to do now is try to unite! While I know that our country needs to unite amongst different races, creeds, and beliefs, I don't think that this kind of activity depicted in this next video is quite what we mean by "uniting"!



There has been some talk lately about how the "Huxtable factor" may have affected the outcome of the 2008 election: Cosby ponders the election's 'Huxtable factor'.

Hmmm. I'm not sure that the "Huxtable Factor" figured into this great victory for Barack Obama. I think that what was more a factor in this election was an aversion to the "Bunker Factor"

The "Bunker Factor" is a heretofore unreported phenomenon in which Americans, tired of hearing the same old right wing, racist lies and garbage rehashed over and over, finally have had enough. They voted against "Bunkerism."

"Eedit! I told you I don't want any of them, you know, coloreds in the White House in this here U.S. of A! Now, stifle yourself!"

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Oh yeah-really? Ok.

It was widely reported today that the really popular reggaeton star Daddy Yankee gave his endorsement to Republican nominee John McCain in a ceremony at Central High School (Cindy McCain's alma mater-'72) in Phoenix, Arizona. Daddy Yankee, whose real name is Raymond Ayala, said "I'm here endorsing Senator McCain because I believe in his ideals and his proposals to lead this nation, you know?" He met McCain two years ago after each was named one of Time Magazine’s most influential people on earth.

Wow! Hoo boy! This is a ringing endorsement by someone who is ever so influential and knowledgeable about the issues involved in this election! This endorsement might just change my mind about voting for Barack!

All I can say is: what the hell?! Influential!? I had never heard of this Daddy Yankee dude before in my life. Him with his dumb and dumber Carrey haircut and crappy music! This is more embarrassing than a big coup for the McCain campaign in my opinion.


I just love the show Scrubs. To me, the show is very funny, and sometimes it can be touching too-sometimes in a roller coaster way! You'll be watching it, and it goes to some sad scene, and next thing you know, it clocks you with a hairpin turn to dark, dark humor. I guess that's why I like it so much! Anyway, I was looking at Boston YT clips and I found this silly little thing from the Scrubs crew.

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Super Comedy!

When I was a youngster, I used to stay up late and watch the Late Night with David Letterman with my parents once in a while. I liked a lot of the skits and guests that they had on the show. One of my favorite guests was Super Dave Osborne, the deadpan stuntman whose stunts were less exciting feats of precision and daring, and more often hilarious tragedies! I couldn't find any of these clips on YT until just recently, and I am glad I at least found a few! Geez-I didn't know that "Osbourne's" brother is Albert Brooks! I like Albert Brooks a lot also! And I didn't know that their real names are Albert and Bob Einstein!



I tried to find more of his inane stunts but couldn't find them. I also thought his interviews on Late Night with DL were pretty good-couldn't find any! Here is a "non-stunt" clip that is kinda funny.




Have you ever gone to a thriller type of movie and, because it tries to be "twisty" and surprising, the storyline is shot to hell!? The plot? What plot?! I swear sometimes a movie can have so many plot twists and turns that you end up more confused and pissed off that you just spent a good chunk of change on admission on the crap you can't believe you just spent the good chunk of change on! This little sketch satirizes that kind of thriller's plot pretty good! I've posted some of these guy's skits before-Derrick Comedy with (Special Agent) "Tom Rogers Must Get His Daughter Back"



* Next post I will have more excerpts of Jerome Corsi's Obama Nation book!

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Bernie Mac-October 5, 1957-August 9, 2008

I shoulda posted this before the last one. Bernie Mac, who I felt was one of the funniest comedians around, died yesterday after suffering from pneumonia. The guy had great delivery, hilarious facial expressions, and a raw sense of humor that mixed observations of family life, differences in cultures/races and autobiographical stuff that was just plain funny!

I guess I can understand how the Obama camp might not have wanted Bernie to get too raw at a recent fundraiser. I think the media made too big a deal of it. Obama apparently didn't get too upset about it. George Lopez, another favorite of mine, had to be careful to not do his full "FTP" routine at another Obama fundraiser!

I don't watch that many TV shows , but my wife and I thought the Bernie Mac Show was one of the funniest. It was too bad FOX cancelled the show. There have been a few shows that break down the "fourth wall," but his show took that device to new levels with Bernie communicating his thoughts about the show's events in an often hilarious, and sometimes touching manner.

He's gonna be missed.

Here is a clip of his standup:

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I have posted some of The Whitest Kids U Know's clips before C3 Fun -Comics, Comedians and Clips: Where else can you find ...

This clip is funny. I like how everything "develops"!




I always liked (most of) SNL's commercial parodies.




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Oh wow, man! Flashbacks!

I have been having flashbacks... err...thinking about two funny shows that had the concept of flashback scenes for the "punchlines" of their jokes. Dream On was a show that I really liked when it came out-good concept, good writing, and of course those hilarious flashback scenes! It was kinda hard to catch back when it was on, since we didn't have HBO, and we had to ask someone to tape it. I thought Brian Benben was a great as a the office guy who gets the raw end of the deal often, and Wendy Malick?! Hell, I think she's been funny in any of the shows she's done-this one, Just Shoot Me, etc.

Family Guy is another show that often uses flashback scenes to great effect also! A big part of Family Guy's humor are the flashbacks!

Here's most of a pretty funny Dream On episode, and a great clip of some of the best FG flashbacks!

Part 1:


Part 2:


Family Guy:


* In my last post I commented on Michael Savage's remarks about kids with autism. There has been a lot of heated discussion on this matter, calls to the local stations where Savage is broadcast, etc. I want to make something clear: I don't want these stations to take Savage off the air. As a longtime ACLU member, I strongly believe in the First Amendment. I just feel that people who are affected by this kind of talk need to be heard and their displeasure with these types of statements need to be acknowledged. I also understand that there are some kids who are misdiagnosed as having autism. Some adults may even be claiming to suffer from autism in a strange bid for attention, or possibly sympathy. I think that the number of those misdiagnoses and false claims are very, very few! No way is it 99 out of 100 as Savage stated, and since autism is a spectrum disability, it has wide variants of severity-meaning that some children could have some of the characteristics, but others just a few, and other children could have many of the characteristics. It can be difficult to diagnose when the child is higher functioning, and has few, less-severe characteristics of autism. The same could be said for lower functioning children that may have few of the "classic" autism characteristics.
Michael Savage oversimplified and exaggerated (as he does with most of his show-and that I think most would agree is not a false claim!) the discrepancies and "gray areas" often associated with autism diagnosis.
Thanks to all my friends who tried to call the radio stations, and even if you didn't, don't worry about it-I think Michael Savage will continue to dig himself a large hole and proceed to bury himself in it all by himself!

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A little of this a little of that...

I recently posted the Yakov Smirnoff parody from the Ben Stiller Show, and in looking at some of the clips from the show, I thought I'd have to post this one also! Like I said, you have to get that DVD retrospective!





Headin' up the country charts raht now!








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SNL revisited

From looking at my Sitemeter Referrals and other data available on my Sitemeter page, it seems like Saturday Night Live-related humor is popular. I get most of my hits from that Penelope clip that I link to (which is surprising being that all the other Penelope links got pulled!).
Well, I am trying to please people who come this humble site. I am posting a couple of clips of a couple of my favorite comics from the later era of the show- Will Ferrell and Dana Carvey. They were two of the few funnier people on the show, in my opinion.

If you have been watching the NBA Championship games-(go Celtics!) you have seen the commercials featuring Ferrell's Jackie Moon character from the recent Semi-Pro flick. (I didn't see it-how was it?)Here's a couple of versions of this commercial.




The Old Spice ads were great too! Here are a bunch of "takes" that are pretty funny!



Dana Carvey was (and is)a great comic also. With all the talk about John McCain resembling a grumpy old man, here is one of Carvey's best skits!

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Have a great Father's Day weekend! Happy Father's Day to all those fathers out there!



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Carnac the Magnificent said "...a huge Mickey Mouse glove and an insane actor and his starstruck (literally!?) guest"

I have been horribly busy lately at work with school meetings, "putting out fires," and other things. Here is some weird stuff I found on the 'nets. (click to enlarge)

Here's Mickey-errr...Mikey!




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Ahhh, memories!

It looks like this might be my last post of 2007. Maybe. For the next week, we will be pretty busy with family and get togethers, and all that holiday stuff. Who knows. If I get something really good I will post it, but I don't know. In advance, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year to you all!

Been wanting to post some of these old guidance films that are found on the Internet Archive-www.archive.org/ I love this site! It is known for being a little slow, (tonight it was moving a little better than it had been so maybe they got a better server) but hey its a non-profit so give it a break! Its so interesting to see all the photos, clips, and documents of American history. Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Archive gives a great synopsis of all that this interesting site has to offer. I usually head to the "Moving Images" link and check out the Prelinger Archives or the Ephemeral Films link, then AV Geeks. I love to see how norms were presented of American life, (even when I don't think many people living life in the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's followed some of these extreme prudish, militaristic, ultra-strict, and homophobic morality codes). Is it my imagination, or did the same guy with the "smokers throat" narrate all those 40's and 50's social guidance films?!
I can laugh watching these films without a narrator mocking them, but with the treatment these types of films get from MST3K, it makes them that much more funnier! It's too bad the show isn't on anymore, and their website's not too great-no clips of them mocking old dumb movies! Instead, go to YouTube to find MST3K clips.

As a former classroom teacher, (I am still a teacher-just now as an itinerant one) I find the films about education very interesting, and above all, hilarious because of the extreme beliefs about children's conduct for the times. Like this one. We can talk all day about how now kids are out of control in our public schools, but I think this film supposes an unattainable example of classroom environment!
(I had trouble embedding from IA, so I got these at YouTube.)



Crazy film about the "dangers" of gay men.




I remember a great sketch comedy show in the vein of SNL called Fridays on ABC that ran in the 1980's. As a teenager watching it, I thought it was great because it was the "bad boy" of TV sketch comedy compared to what was then the "old man" of SNL. It was edgy, and had some pretty pointed social commentary for a show that ran on ABC. It also had some great musical guests like the Pretenders, The Boomtown Rats and The Plasmatics. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridays www.tvparty.com/80fridays.html
Here are some of my favorite clips from the show. (although I think there are some others that were good that I could not find)

*YT took off the Ronnie Horror Picture Show clips-here are some other ones:

Here are a couple of comics for the remaining days of 2007.

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Clips Galore

Hope everyone had a nice, safe Thanksgiving!
I used to always watch Star Trek with some friends and we would alternate between "hey, that's pretty cool", to doing MST3K-type commentary. We woulda had fun with this episode like the authors of this clip did! This is a great clip of when Spock decided to drop out, turn on, and tune in...or whatever. Groovy man!


I had posted a old clip of The Amazing Jonathan earlier, c3fun.blogspot.com/2007/07/do-you-all-remember-mystery-science.html before he had really become more well-known. This clip is still a little old but he had gotten his somewhat dark, sight gag-laden comedy act down by the time he appeared here for the World's Greatest Magic II. Here are parts 1and 2.




As I may have mentioned before, I don't watch too much TV. I just caught The Office lately. (I know, I know-that is really behind the times!) This show is great! I see what everyone is talking about! I thought I would post this clip which catches some of the best pranks on Dwight.



I am trying to find some fresh comedian clips for posting, maybe tomorrow, if I find some decent ones.
See you!


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Skink and Shred

I have always liked Chris Elliot. He's a funny guy with a great sense of humor! This is a good parody of Dog TBH. Here's a few clips from the David Letterman show.








*Update-St Sanders-(Santeri Ojala) the author (whom I unfortunately forgot to name in the original posting) of these really funny guitarist clips, has had to pull these great clips from YouTube due to the original guitarists citing copyright infringement. Copyright infringement!? For pete's sake people, get a f'n life! These clips are parodies. They did not have original songs or music. Awful. Well, at least they are available at this Wired link Banned From YouTube: Parody Guitar Videos . (I'm leaving the old useless video posts as a testament to the idiocy of taking these funny clips down!)
Some more great guitarists whose playing has recently gone awry! Santana's guitar playing has really deteriorated since he played with Rob Thomas!



In this rare video of Ozzy when he had Jake E. Lee, its surprising to see just how bad Jake was in concert! Heck, even Ozzy's clapping is off!





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Comedy can be magic and sometimes it can turn you into a Dick!

Do you all remember Mystery Science Theater 3000? That was one of my favorite shows! When I used to ask other people about the show, they almost always said they either didn't like it, or just didn't get it. Oh well, its an acquired taste I guess. I guess I liked it because that's exactly what we would do when we were teenagers-make fun of corny old films! It was so fun and easy! I guess on a certain level, when Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot screened one of those training type shorts from the '50's, there was a bit of dissecting of that ultra-white bread, staid, idyllic and ultimately fantasy family image along with the comedy. I think these were probably some of their funnier segments!

Hell, I still enjoy doing this type of thing when a cheesy movie is on!
Here is one with the boys making mincemeat out of a training film for manners at the dinner table Enjoy!


I always have liked the mixing of magic and comedy. This guy does that mixing very well! The Amazing Jonathan has been around for longer than I thought! Here is a classic clip of him from 1983.


This might be kinda tough with all the controversy about Andy Dick and Jon Lovitz. I have always liked both comedians-maybe Andy a little better because he's I think he's a less one-dimensional, but whatever. If I put my two cents in (what do you all think out there?) I think its a little misguided to blame Andy Dick for Phil Hartman's death. (and for Brynn Hartman's actions and death.) I don't know, but Brynn Hartman was an adult. Yes Dick should not have given her cocaine-(if that's what really happened at the infamous party) and, he has said things he should not have about Lovitz and Hartman-(who I really liked as a comic also) when he was wiped out on drugs or drink. Hey, he has had many issues with alcohol and drugs himself, so maybe his judgement is off.

Anyway, trying to forget this current tension between the two comics, I would like to present a couple of clips of Dick (Geez! The guy's name lends itself to humor doesn't it?!) in parodies of Marilyn Manson.

Andy Dick Marilyn Poppins and Oh Manson | Funny Jokes at JibJab

With all the talk about Michael Vick and cruelty to animals I would like to present a somewhat fitting strange, funny little film created by Dan Piraro about our relationship with animals and who is better suited to be vegans or meat eaters. I know this has nothing to do with dogfighting, but is more about how we treat animals in general. Whatever your feelings about being a vegetarian or meat eater, (I do eat meat, but sometime ago, I tried doing a "variant" of vegetarianism, and lost a lot of weight and felt a lot more healthy than I do now!) this is still a funny little clip!
http://www.bizarro.com/videos/mov/VeganVideoWeb.mov

http://www.bizarro.com/vegan/vegan_cartoon15.htm


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Dan Piraro

Some comedians you might like, love, or hate. Its up to you.

I love David Cross. He's a great comedian (I think) and he gives a great, skewed view of the world. At times he is pretty controversial, (like in this clip-sorry to offend those who are bothered by jokes about religion!) I think that his jokes are smart, literate, and best of all funny! He's way funnier than another comedian whose literate delivery is kind of in the same vein-Dennis Miller! Miller thinks every word out of his mouth is so damn hilarious and of course, he loves to impress people with his witticism and vocabulary. I actually liked him on SNL but now, a lot of times his right-wingedness and pompousness (Google "pompous" and Dennis Miller and you get about 70,000 results!) gets in the way.
Here's David


David Letterman recently explored the Transformer Optimus Prime, and showed what a jerk off he was when he was a teen!


I never really liked the band Linkin Park. From the silly misspelled name thing so prevalent in youngster's music today to their formula. This dig at Linkin Park's style is humorously laid out in this parody clip.



Was trying to find another Andy Dick skit but found this Daphne Aguilera thing instead. Pretty funny.


Jim Breuer standup


Hope you like the comedy!

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