tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post1729020913947652540..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: Leslie Nielsen jokes? Already?By Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-88479051013345351202010-12-06T03:59:45.716-08:002010-12-06T03:59:45.716-08:00It seems when comedians or talk show hosts host th...It seems when comedians or talk show hosts host the Oscars, they bring their own writing staff along. Who'll write the Hathaway/Franco dialogue?Lou H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/17611461956944372901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-11125960870960286342010-12-04T10:48:49.711-08:002010-12-04T10:48:49.711-08:00"Don’t expect Jack Nicholson to get a lot of ..."Don’t expect Jack Nicholson to get a lot of screen time this year. Especially if Miley Cyrus is there. "<br /><br />If Jack does not have Miley on the business end of his dong by the end of the evening, then I will be really disappointed because it means an era has come to an end.bevonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-64387042975635534122010-12-03T22:28:24.741-08:002010-12-03T22:28:24.741-08:00Ken, you are cool, I like you and I like your blog...Ken, you are cool, I like you and I like your blog. Yet, the back handed slap at Christmas was thinly veiled and sorta beneath you. Christmas specials are cool, and the season is a time for people to adhere to traditions and celebrate with family. Some people have no family, yet can remember a simpler time, and in my case the specials bring those happier times back. I am kind of tired of the assault on christmas and I get the feeling many others are as well. Let's remember to live and let live and not be cynical about some things that may be precious to others.<br /><br />Thanks. You can carry on. I am through defending my traditions.<br /><br />Have a happy holiday. I hear Hawaii is great this time of year.Nick Christophernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-10911092076518175072010-12-03T16:40:05.558-08:002010-12-03T16:40:05.558-08:00"SmartAss said...
Yes - do proofread in that ...<i>"SmartAss said...<br />Yes - do proofread in that brief window of time when you're not stoned!"</i><br /><br />Thanks, Mom. I could have sworn I saw you into your grave 13 years ago.<br /><br />Sadly, some weeks that window is not nearly brief enough.<br /><br /><i>" xjill said...<br />@Jon88 - I have the Sherlock DVDs and can confirm they have the BBC versions + commentaries, original pilot and a featurette thing that's pretty interesting."</i><br /><br />Thanks! Into my Netflix queue, leap-frogged (Or"leptfrogged" for "Smart ass's" benefit.) to the top, it has gone! Now if I can just finish forcing myself through the <i>Spartacus: Blood & Sand</i> series, which has the worst-written dialogue of any series in (or about history.D. McEwannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-78705349515179211532010-12-03T00:45:50.557-08:002010-12-03T00:45:50.557-08:00Very inappropriate caption!
Leslie Nielsen shoul...Very inappropriate caption! <br /><br />Leslie Nielsen should be honored. I love this Chilean newspaper's front page (as reported on Huffington Post)<br /><br />http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/29/leslie-nielsen-newspaper_n_789191.htmlChris Antonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-69637746932841285632010-12-02T07:25:35.634-08:002010-12-02T07:25:35.634-08:00Carol Burnett said "Comedy is tragedy plus ti...Carol Burnett said "Comedy is tragedy plus time". I guess in the instantaneous age of the internet, that time is the caption in the next day's newspaper.<br /><br />wv: inedny. For those who don't "heart" NYbensonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-45934000907032391962010-12-01T22:03:58.467-08:002010-12-01T22:03:58.467-08:00Being a bit of a pedant, I must point out that the...Being a bit of a pedant, I must point out that the fellow's name is Chuck Viane, not Vane.cadavranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-70037890116890640742010-12-01T20:39:00.456-08:002010-12-01T20:39:00.456-08:00Ken--I think the family would probably recognize t...Ken--I think the family would probably recognize that it's meant as a loving homage, and that, given what we know about Leslie's sense of humor, he'd have probably gotten a kick out of it.Leighnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-29105122962770690342010-12-01T18:39:28.720-08:002010-12-01T18:39:28.720-08:00@Jon88 - I have the Sherlock DVDs and can confirm ...@Jon88 - I have the Sherlock DVDs and can confirm they have the BBC versions + commentaries, original pilot and a featurette thing that's pretty interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-9476536263951655412010-12-01T17:45:31.669-08:002010-12-01T17:45:31.669-08:00I know what you're all saying and I agree Lesl...I know what you're all saying and I agree Leslie would probably find it amusing. I just felt it was a little soon. There's a fine line between humorous homage and disrespect. <br /><br />Would Leslie's family find it amusing? <br /><br />That's all I'm saying. Maybe they would. <br /><br />By the way, the line itself is hilarious.By Ken Levinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-1390894193624361672010-12-01T16:32:10.911-08:002010-12-01T16:32:10.911-08:00Part of the WikiPedia entry on James Franco:
"...Part of the WikiPedia entry on James Franco:<br />"Franco reportedly has "an unusually high metabolism for productivity...a superhuman ability to focus".[2] Dissatisfied with his career's direction,[2] Franco reenrolled at UCLA in the fall of 2006 as an English major with a creative writing concentration. Having received permission to take as many as 62 course credits per quarter compared to the normal limit of 19[55] while continuing to act, he received his undergraduate degree in June 2008 with a GPA over 3.5.[55][2][56] For his degree, Franco prepared his departmental honors thesis as a novel under the supervision of Mona Simpson.[2][57] He moved to New York to simultaneously attend graduate school at Columbia University's MFA writing program, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for filmmaking,[58][59][60][61] and Brooklyn College for fiction writing,[55] while occasionally commuting to North Carolina's Warren Wilson College for poetry.[2] Franco is currently a PhD student in English at Yale University[62] and will also attend the Rhode Island School of Design.[2]"<br /><br />If the kid could only focus...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-32831360033730213792010-12-01T15:46:47.244-08:002010-12-01T15:46:47.244-08:00As one of Leslie Neilsen's funny lines from th...As one of Leslie Neilsen's funny lines from the movie Airplane!, it seems to be a a fitting quote to put in the caption.Isaac Linnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-9871100169746626592010-12-01T15:36:29.392-08:002010-12-01T15:36:29.392-08:00I remember reading in an interview somewhere that ...I remember reading in an interview somewhere that Benedict Cumberbatch thinks his last name sounds, and I am quoting here, "like someone farting in a bathtub."<br /><br />And yes, Dame Edna and Sir Les hosting the Oscars would be so funny that maybe they could forget about handing out those silly bowling trophies and everyone could go home early.<br /><br />An alternate suggestion; make the Oscars into a pot-luck supper and assign all of the nominees and guests to bring a dish to share. After all, as Bette Midler once remarked, the Oscars were the world's "biggest, weirdest Kiwanis Club picnic."Matt Pattonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-16331926992277189142010-12-01T14:13:36.560-08:002010-12-01T14:13:36.560-08:00Sounds an awful lot like the debate in the Mary Ty...Sounds an awful lot like the debate in the Mary Tyler Moore episode about the death of Chuckles the clown. Experience has taught me that laughter is healing. Thank goodness Leslie Nielsen left us so much material to work with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-2505770809623106522010-12-01T14:11:55.254-08:002010-12-01T14:11:55.254-08:00D. McEwan said...
Man, I gotta proof-read when I&...D. McEwan said...<br /><br />Man, I gotta proof-read when I'm not stoned.<br /><br />That's "proofread" not "proof-read"<br /><br />and it's "Japanese" not "Japenese"<br /><br />Yes - do proofread in that brief window of time when you're not stoned!SmartAssnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-47231379980424460982010-12-01T13:37:59.367-08:002010-12-01T13:37:59.367-08:00This was my Facebook post on Leslie Nielsen's ...This was my Facebook post on Leslie Nielsen's death: <br /><br />So at the gates of heaven a great crowd gathers and screams, "It's Enrico Palazzo!". RIP Leslie Nielsen<br /><br />The way to honor Leslie Nielsen is with his humor.Breadbakernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-74422835784463499012010-12-01T13:17:40.917-08:002010-12-01T13:17:40.917-08:00you know, as much as I love the blog- I really lov...you know, as much as I love the blog- I really love the comments page- today was outstanding, you were all really on your game- stoned or not.Janet Tnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-49829395593284591052010-12-01T13:12:54.052-08:002010-12-01T13:12:54.052-08:00Echoing what others have said about Leslie Nielsen...Echoing what others have said about Leslie Nielsen jokes. When I found out, I was sad, and then immediately made an Airplane joke on Twitter. It just seemed right. It's never to soon to pay tribute to a gifted comedian with a fitting joke.<br /><br />I just read an article recently about Marlo Thomas, and she said George Burns came up to her mother at her dad, Danny Thomas' funeral, and said, "So...I hear you're single again..." She cracked up. <br /><br />I also noticed Greg Giraldo's comedian friends lovingly making jokes about him on Twitter after his death, as well. It seems to me there's nothing MORE appropriate, given their, and his, profession.Leighnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-34211357907551152742010-12-01T13:03:16.935-08:002010-12-01T13:03:16.935-08:00Man, I gotta proof-read when I'm not stoned. T...Man, I gotta proof-read when I'm not stoned. The portion of my post that said: "And even when they had actual Koreans in the movie, whom even a blind man can tell at one glance from Koreans..." should, of course, have said: "And even when they had actual Koreans on the show, whom even a blind man can tell at one glance from Japenese..."D. McEwannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-5112352985520581682010-12-01T12:59:01.437-08:002010-12-01T12:59:01.437-08:00My first thought when I saw the selections of Fran...My first thought when I saw the selections of Franco & Hathaway to host the Oscars was: they ran out of comedians? I mean, those two are talented and highly decorative, and do okay guesting on SNL, but for an Oscar host I want someone genuinely funny. Barry Humphries would have been GREAT! Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson as Oscar hosts. THAT would work for me!<br /><br />I'll give Anne Hathaway this; for someone who was married to Shakespeare 400 years ago, she looks great. She must have had work done.<br /><br />You know, whenever I watched M*A*S*H, I was always turning it off in disgust, saying "They think I believe those people are Korean? They're <i>obviously</i> Japanese!" And even when they had actual Koreans in the movie, whom even a blind man can tell at one glance from Koreans, I was equally disgusted seeing an actor from Idaho passed off as being from Ohio, and a character supposed to be from Ohio being played by someone from Montana. It <i><b>RUINED</b></i> the show for me! What was wrong with your casting people? Next you'd be having Costa Ricans playing Mexicans!<br /><br />Clearly Chuck Vane is a useful tool himself.<br /><br />I had no idea those wonderful <i>Sherlock</i> shows were shown butchered. Now I'll at least have to rent them. As much as I <i>loathed</i> the atrocious Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes movie, so much the more did I love <i>Sherlock</i>, which I had first tuned into fully prepared to despise. And how do you not love a name like Benedict Cumberbatch. Now "Cumberpatch" I could understand. That would be where you'd grow cucumbers, but Cumberbatch? If only his first name was Englebert.<br /><br />Aloha.D. McEwannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-51570183829657754232010-12-01T12:42:10.245-08:002010-12-01T12:42:10.245-08:00Back in college (early '90s) I had a Korean ro...<i> Back in college (early '90s) I had a Korean roommate who hated MASH because, he said, most of the time Koreans on the show were played by Japanese actors.<br /><br />Once it had been said, I of course noticed it all the time but don't know if that is just confirmation bias.<br /><br />Was this really the case? If so, was there any particular reason for it? </i><br /><br />I dunno about Ken's take, but the big demographic explosion of Korean Americans (the first generation to be born in the US) just started during the late 80s and early 90s. Not nearly enough population to draw upon. (And it was possible to throw a party for all the Korean American actors in town and still have room for the Republican elephant in that phone booth...)gwangunghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00743626777447874196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-65035937444965763582010-12-01T12:01:38.047-08:002010-12-01T12:01:38.047-08:00I want Anne Hathaway to host the Oscars only if sh...I want Anne Hathaway to host the Oscars only if she comes in character as a member of the singing-sister act: accompanied by Amy Poehler and Kristen Wiig.<br /><br />Caught the SHERLOCK episodes before they showed up on PBS (muted, embarrassed clearing of throat, much pseudo-casual staring at ceiling) -- only three episodes, but they ran 90 minutes. Without commericals That's like three or four seasons of the average sit-com these days, isn't? (BTW, very funny video of Mark Gatiss, one of the creators of the show, demonstrating Hammer Studios' stage-blood recipe for a special he did about horror movies. A friend of mine made it and says that if you up the ratio of powdered sugar a bit, it makes a very good desert topping . . .)Matt Pattonhttp://mpatton1962.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-79368606392797892812010-12-01T11:47:10.711-08:002010-12-01T11:47:10.711-08:00A Friday question that I was just reminded of.
Ba...A Friday question that I was just reminded of.<br /><br />Back in college (early '90s) I had a Korean roommate who hated MASH because, he said, most of the time Koreans on the show were played by Japanese actors.<br /><br />Once it had been said, I of course noticed it all the time but don't know if that is just confirmation bias.<br /><br />Was this really the case? If so, was there any particular reason for it?Alex S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/07543077687426776863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-67667287304186703152010-12-01T11:37:38.416-08:002010-12-01T11:37:38.416-08:00Yes, but Fergie is also pretty eye candy.
No prob...Yes, but Fergie is also pretty eye candy.<br /><br />No problem with the Leslie Nielsen caption. I think he'd consider it a compliment. I mean, the man carried around a fart cushion.<br /><br />@lucifervandross. I saw the Naked Gun movie last week where the now late great Enrico Palazzo was doing pat downs on the Seattle Mariners and the team formerly know as the California Angels.<br />Again, timely.bensonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-19043199990586576432010-12-01T11:32:10.067-08:002010-12-01T11:32:10.067-08:00Screw John Hodgman,if M*A*S*H* ever gets a reboot,...Screw John Hodgman,if M*A*S*H* ever gets a reboot, I want to play Radar, dammit! It was bad enough that all through high school that my nickname was "Radar" cause everyone thought I looked like Gary Burghoff [I don't know, he might be offended by that comparison] even though I was 14 years younger than him. Even at my last high school reunion I had someone come up and apologize and ask what my real name was because all he ever knew me as through high school was Radar. Even some of the teachers would call me Radar and than catch themselves and call me by my actual name.YEKIMIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01921751875397071034noreply@blogger.com