Maybe Trey Mathew Palmer was channeling Mongo, the bean-swilling cowpoke played by former NFL great Alex Karas in the movie Blazing Saddles. ...more

January 31, 2009

Late-night TV comics won't run out of fresh material for the next few weeks. ...more

January 29, 2009

If this quintet of clueless bobblehead dolls had their way, the Nobel Peace Prize would be named after Pol Pot, the Pulitzers after Clifford Irving, the MacArthur genius grants after Archie Bunker. ...more

October 4, 2008

It's Oscar time. Sunday, we'll learn who the big winners are, not to mention the designer label on the evening gowns the PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants are wearing under their men's clothes when they bring out the envelopes. Thank ya, boys! ...more

February 22, 2008

If you're a government apparatchik, seeing Hillsborough County commissioner and resident board parson Brian Blair barging through the door has to be the paper-pusher equivalent of the pol who came to dinner meets Mongo from "Blazing Saddles." ...more

February 5, 2008

Jewish-American humor is all around us. Artists such as Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and Jerry Seinfeld have injected a decidedly Jewish-American perspective into their works. Consider the self-deprecating humor, the neuroses, the outsider's constant desire to fit in, the fascination with wordplay and arguments, the uncut umbilical cords. ...more

November 1, 2007

Jewish-American humor is all around us. ...more

October 31, 2007