Having finished the old year by listening to the smokin' 1965 Blue Note Records album The Night Of The Cookers, Live At Club La Marchal (a.k.a. Le Jazz Hot), frankly, we're happy to see that 2022 is now officially in the rear view mirror.
In this past twelve months, the world lost a lengthy and alarming list of movie, music, sports and comedy greats, as well as pals and colleagues from the film historian community (the ever-resourceful and enthusiastic Dave Wyatt and Dennis Nyback). In between catching up on reading, we at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog salute all of these greats while ringing in 2023 with several of our all-time favorites, starting with the great Ernie Kovacs!
Every year, love celebrating New Year's with Spike Jones & His City Slickers!
All of us at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog dig Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Strongly recommend the available DVDS of the novelty band's amazing work.
The City Slickers version of "Chloe" cracks us up!
Another fellow who digs Spike the most is Weird Al Yankovic.
The band featured numerous very talented comics who played multiple musical instruments with panache and skill.
One of the funniest of all comedians, Doodles Weaver, had memorable features in the Spike Jones & The City Slickers sets.
Disappointed (but unsurprised) that practically nobody mentioned the brilliant and frequently subversive comedy legends Gilbert Gottfried and Judy "The Love Goddess" Tenuta among the 2022 losses.
All of us at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog thank this dynamic duo for numerous loud belly laughs - and wish them a peaceful journey (as we did for fellow comedians Louie Anderson and Bob Saget).
These losses to humanity mean 2022 hardly qualifies as a good year, let alone Frank Sinatra’s very good year. Our response? First and foremost, quality time spent revisiting Gilbert's numerous hilarious podcasts.
Then, quality time spent watching Judy's incredibly funny episode of An Evening At The Improv and her set in the 1987 HBO standup comedy special Women Of The Night.
1 comment:
Inadvertently deleted the following comment:
"Hello Paul, God Bless You and Happy New Year. Is there any way to contact you? I want to make you a somewhat long question."
Alas, I don't give out personal information. Shorten the long question and post here.
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