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Steve Martin *is* The Great Flydini
Posted on 04.01.09 by Widge @ 7:30 pm
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I try not to just post vids with nothing else because you can get that at any old website. But sometimes vids just need no introduction. Like this one.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

I will concur with the commenter on the YouTube page who asks why Steve Martin isn't funny anymore? Don't you miss him? I sure as hell do. Thanks to Graham Linehan for sharing.

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Charlie Brooker and Episode 803 of the World's Most Complex Soap Opera
Posted on 03.28.09 by Widge @ 12:44 am
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So Ken recommended this highly and said I would want to share it with others. He wasn't lying. So here we are. And you know this is good, because I seldom share full episodes of anything--the last time was, well, Brian.

I didn't upload this, but because the BBC is terrified that somebody outside of the UK might want to enjoy their quality programming, I've had to resort to embedding what some nice person on YouTube did for us. Here is the first episode of Charlie Brooker's Newswipe.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

His previous series, Screenwipe, is not yet available on DVD. Sadly.

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Happy Belated Birthday, Judd Hirsch
Posted on 03.16.09 by Widge @ 12:37 am
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I had no idea until Bill Corbett Twittered it that yesterday was Judd Hirsch's birthday. He asked what everyone was doing to celebrate. I figured we could have a little of this:

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And an awful lot of what comes next...

[[ Another vid down here... ]]

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David Letterman at the Milford Plaza
Posted on 03.07.09 by Widge @ 5:50 am
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So Ken and I were discussing David Letterman and how amazingly cool his shows used to be. He was a bit wild, what with his monkey-cam and Larry "Bud" Melman and his various stunts he'd pull. Like grabbing the Helen Hayes Suite at the Milford Plaza in New York City and filming his show there, with special guests Carly Simon and Hunter S. Thompson, plus some other people he coaxed out of their hotel rooms. It's utterly manic...and funnily enough when Ken was playing part of this for me, and I heard Milford Plaza--I've actually stayed there. At least a couple of times. In the mid-90s, anyway, it had decent prices that included meals in the rather better than decent restaurant downstairs. Takes me back, so it does.

Anyway, here's some Letterman back when he was perhaps a bit more out of control than these days we're used to.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

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Clarkson on the St. Nazaire Raid
Posted on 02.27.09 by Widge @ 1:07 pm
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So I finally got around to watching Jeremy Clarkson's The Greatest Raid of All Time, which covers the World War II raid on the drydock at St. Nazaire by British commandos. I count this as yet another incredible story of the war which I had never heard of before--I've complained about this previously--but I usually figure that was the limits of my public school education. I feel a little better about this one that Clarkson didn't know about it apparently, and it's based out of his country.

Seriously, watch this. I know it's an hour, but there's a really good chance it will be the best thing you watch this weekend.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

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