Here is a video of singer Janis Ian performing on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in 1967, at the age of 16. She's singing her controversial hit that she wrote… Read the rest of the article: Watch singer Janis Ian, at sixteen, the day she says Bill Cosby blackballed her from TV: "probably a lesbian"
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Ruben Bolling Comedian Gary Gulman's comedy special "Born on Third Base" will be released on the streaming platform Max (née HBO) on December 21. Gulman is one of my very favorite stand-up… Read the rest of the article: Gary Gulman's new comedy special on growing up poor
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Ruben Bolling The very entertaining Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut who helped fix the Hubble telescope in orbit, was on The Daily Show and explained in detail to host Kal Penn… Read the rest of the article: An astronaut explains pooping in space, and on the Moon
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Ruben Bolling In this deleted scene from the 2003 comedy Elf, Buddy, played by Will Ferrell, plays hockey with his small elf colleagues, and uses his superior size to violently manhandle his… Read the rest of the article: A deleted scene from "Elf" in which Buddy violently injures his elf friends
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Ruben Bolling 👉 Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here. And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration! Info… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Ken Paxton's Texas Christmas Special
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Ruben Bolling This week, Fantagraphics is releasing a gorgeous book reprinting the "Silly Symphony" comic strips from July, 1935, to February, 1939. "Silly Symphony" was syndicated to newspapers at this time as… Read the rest of the article: Silly Symphonies: New book beautifully publishes Disney comic strips from the 1930s
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Ruben Bolling The Microsoft Threat Analysis Center has released a report stating that Russia has been covertly purchasing Cameo video messages from US celebrities, purportedly for fans, and then manipulating them to… Read the rest of the article: Russia is repurposing purchased Cameo videos from US celebrities to make them seem to be disparaging Ukraine's leader
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Ruben Bolling Writer and comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff is a guest on the latest episode of The Dana Gould Hour podcast to promote his new book, Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and… Read the rest of the article: Comedians aren't constrained by cancel culture; they are freer today than ever
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Ruben Bolling 👉 Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here. And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration! Info… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Billy Dare in the Ominous Jungle
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Ruben Bolling Playstation users who purchased certain TV shows are about to find out they never really owned them at all, as they will soon be removed from their libraries. Link to… Read the rest of the article: PlayStation deleting TV shows that users already paid to "own"
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Ruben Bolling Scientists at Tufts University and Harvard University have created tiny "robots" out of human cells, that they call anthrobots. They used human cells from the trachea, and had them form… Read the rest of the article: Scientists make tiny robots out of human cells, and they repair neuron cells
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Ruben Bolling If you're home on New Year's Eve, why watch the insipid TV offerings of drunk almost-celebrities yammering between commercials? Even if it's just on in the background? Filmmaker and visual… Read the rest of the article: A compilation of New Year's Eve movie scenes, 1921-2015
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Ruben Bolling 👉 Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here. And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration! Info… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Elon's Fun Page!
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Ruben Bolling The second episode of the new Disney theme park YouTube series "Disney Unpacked," featuring Jim Shull, a former Disney imagineer, is about the making of "Crush's Coaster," the indoor family… Read the rest of the article: The best roller coaster you've (likely) never ridden
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Ruben Bolling 👉 Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here. And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug book signed WITH a hand-drawn illustration! Info… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: Mike Johnson's Adventures with the Meaning of Words
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Ruben Bolling Nathan Fielder and Emma Stone were guests on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," promoting their new show "The Curse," and Fielder was sporting a studiously hipster look. It's revealed during the segment… Read the rest of the article: Nathan Fielder appears on Jimmy Kimmel Live claiming to be out of character for the first time
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Ruben Bolling November 17 is the generally accepted date of Life Day, the holiday that according to Star Wars lore originated in Chewbacca's Wookiee culture and then spread to the rest of… Read the rest of the article: Happy Life Day, the Star Wars holiday celebrating Wookiee life
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Ruben Bolling The campaign launched by John Oliver, host of the HBO show "Last Week Tonight," for the Pūteketeke to win New Zealand's Bird of the Century contest resulted in a massive… Read the rest of the article: Pūteketeke named New Zealand's Bird of the Century in landslide
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Ruben Bolling 👉 Get signed Tom the Dancing Bug books with the new SIGNED BOOK COMBO deal! Info here. 👉 And/or get the new On the Trail of Tom the Dancing Bug… Read the rest of the article: Tom the Dancing Bug: A Calvinesque and Hobbesian look inside Little Donald's brain
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Ruben Bolling I'm not a Disney theme park influencer who receives benefits or freebies from the Disney company, so I didn't receive their new rules outlining the "Brand Guidelines for Influencers" that… Read the rest of the article: Disney's rules for theme park influencers are hilariously ridiculous