Bernie Mac: standup, actor and the only person brave enough to ever hit Samuel L. Jackson with a golf ball. Chris Rock is right when he says "there's only one Bernie." Luckily, we'll get to look back on his early and previously unreleased performances in the upcoming documentary, I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac. Comedy Central is airing the documentary on Feb. 19 (with the DVD out Feb. 21). Save the date.
While the funniest part of this video is that incredibly blase host (you know she's just finishing her sudoku up there), the rest of Louis CK's George Carlin tribute will having you tearing up like Louis CK giving a George Carlin tribute. In a video from NYPL's "A Tribute To George Carlin" from March 2010 (which was just uploaded to YouTube), CK credits Carlin with making him seriously laugh for the first time (what do dogs do on their day off?), as well as teaching him the value of systematically throwing away your material. "When you're done telling jokes about airplanes and dogs, and you throw those [...]
Almost 100 comic strip artists used their Sunday strips this week to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11. They range from simple visual tributes to full narratives that find humor in the way we remember tragedy. The strips are collected here and definitely worth a look.
It's weird and touching to see a performer as polished as a late night host start to lose it, so as you can imagine how verklempt you're about to get watching Jimmy Kimmel's tribute to Uncle Frank, his trusty sidekick/in-law who passed away at the end of last month. It's also hard to not remember a man fondly after watching him accidentally hit on Kermit the Frog, chase his wife around with cow vagina-covered gloves, and educate the audience on what part of monkeys are safe for human consumption (answer: no parts of them). "I wanna say thanks to my co-workers who talked to him and visited [...]
