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Can't explain it, but for some reason I had a dream about watching this cartoon last night. I've always been a big Goofy fan, and I still drink water from the Goofy mug I bought nearly 20 years ago. So on this cold, wintry day in DC, Let's all spend a few minutes laughing at Goofy in the Olympics from 1942.

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Been thinking about Newsradio a lot recently and I wish I could tell you why. Just been replaying scenes in my mind the last few weeks as I close out another course in school. It's been a busy nine weeks, as I am sure you may have noticed since I've pretty much been bare bones here on the ole blog. But good wordier, rantier times shall return soon. In the meantime, share a laugh with me and Jimmy James (the man so nice they named him twice) and his fancy plans with pants to match.

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Once again, it's time to get back into the swing of blogging. Always lots of thoughts, ramblings and sightings in my life, just hard to find the time to document them. Alas, a long weekend gives excellent opportunity to dive back in.

And I return with a holiday edition of Friday Funnies. No better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than via the Cosby family.

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I delayed my normal posting of Friday Funnies because Twitter was abuzz yesterday with news that the delayed premiere of one of my favorite shows, Community, would not stop the cast from premiering ... something. Well, they came through. Damn you, NBC. Just keep Community around for #sixseasonsandamovie

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It's been the week of fantasy football drafts. I've had two this week and one more tomorrow, and throw in a couple survivor and pick em leagues and I've got a full slate of football entertainment coming to me for the next 6 months. Which is good, since UK basketball doesn't start for a few more months and we all know how complete shite the football team is.

So in honor of all my football happiness (both real and make believe), this week's Friday Funnies is brought to you by a guy who wants to kill your bookie and mine.

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In honor of Kelly's birthday, I'm going to dedicate this week's Friday Funnies to him. And our video treat is something I'm sure he'll co-sign and spend another hour finding like-minded videos.

It's monkeys that get drunk. Fantastic.

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Sometimes there is nothing better than watching bloopers from a show that could not be more serious. In this case, it's the humorous breaks in Breaking Bad. And yes, I know the final season starts soon. I'm itching for some more of that Blue Sky.

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One of the pleasant spring surprises for the wife and I has been the HBO show Veep. Holy shit is it funny. That it stars Julia Louis-Dreyfuss as a foul-mouthed vice president is precious, and that it costars Buster from Arrested Development and a grown-up Anna Chlumsky (which was bizarre to see and also made me feel quite old, thank you "My Girl") is also hilarious. The bit characters like Josh the moron from POTUS' office and a one-liner machine in the role of Selina's secretary, we just love this show. It's full of f-bombs and wildly inappropriate jokes all jammed into a solid 28 minutes every Sunday. It's a must-see.

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Last night brought 90 minutes of pure joy to my week. I got not one, but three episodes of my favorite obscure comedy that only I and maybe 11 other people watch and truly appreciate for all its glory, Community. The 8-bit episode alone was perhaps the most rewarding and fulfilling mashup of all the things I love tied up in an 18-minute package of goodness. But to say goodbye to Community until the Fall, or whenever the hell the morons at NBC decide to bring it back, I have to recall one of the best scenes of the entire season. It naturally included Jeff and his affect on Dean Pelton.

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I'll have two Friday Funnies this week because I already had one planned when my mother declared that she might give me up for adoption if I didn't post this one as well. Because, you know, it is the West Wing and she's only watched the entire box set of the series (kept in a Break Only In Case of Emergency vault) no fewer than 16 times. 

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Quick Friday Funnies since I am traveling all day today and tomorrow getting back home after a nice vacation out on the west coast. When in doubt, 30 Rock always makes me laugh.

Trailer Love

The last time a trailer for a TV show got me jacked up and excited, I was crushed by the massively disappointing "The Killing." And I'm not going back to it, either. But that was a show on AMC, and before that, I cannot remember the last time a major network show got me this excited and scared at the same time. Obviously looks like a promising idea of a show, and the trailer is pitch-perfect. But I have to remember that this is NBC, where shows go to die. So here's hoping that I get to see more than three episodes of this before it gets canceled due to bad ratings, and that it also has a more satisfying first season ending than The Killing. If I were a betting man (and I am), I wouldn't take bets on either of those happening, sadly.

But for just over 4 minutes, I have to admit to being greatly intrigued. I'm not saying smash hit here. Just intriguing. Isaacs is a guy I've liked in a bunch of smaller roles, and BD Wong has always been a favorite since his early days in SVU.

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One of the viewing pleasures of my life returns tonight. Season 2 of Portlandia premieres this evening and believe me the DVR is set for "funny." Been excited for this since they announced the new season. Here's a clip from the first season that was a solid 8.5 on the funny scale.

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Suddenly it seems that 30 Rock is on every channel at night, where you can flip from 6-11 p.m. and chances are strong you'll be able to find the show somewhere. I think it's replaced Law & Order as the show everyone can't avoid, and I couldn't be happier. It's a genius show. This episode showed up recently and I love it when Jack goes 'method' on Tracy and starts acting like his whole family. Good times.

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Not much to laugh about this week, but I'm dedicated to bringing you laughs even when my life lacks them. This week, it's a short clip from Park and Rec, where my worlds collided. Here was one of my favorite comedy shows doing a riff on the kind of law the wife does for the government. Great stuff. She couldn't have asked for a better send-up for why she exists, especially since it involved Ron Fucking Swanson.

My Childhood, Bastardized

I'm honestly not sure yet where I come down on this trailer. You see, my mom can vouch that I watched an unhealthy amount The Three Stooges when I was a kid. Not sure why I loved it so much, but I did and that's all that can be said. Didn't matter that it was in black-and-white, didn't matter that it was three grown men acting like the age of the kids watching them. It was three distinct personalities always getting themselves into hijinks without much hint on controversy. Great song, great physical comedy.



Well now in the continuation of Hollywood's creative malaise, someone decided to make a Stooges flick set in the present day. At first it was bad when they signed Sean Penn (Larry), Benicio Del Toro (Moe) and Jim Carrey (Curly) to play the parts, which I think would have been a nightmare. Once that failed, they downgraded to Sean Hayes, Chris Diamantopoulos and Will Sass. I really don't have a comment for this. My head won't stop shaking.



It looks both awful and decent at the same time. Awful because it honestly should never have been made in the first place. But decent in that, at least from the trailer, it eschews trying to reinvent the formula and instead delivers exactly what the Stooges did back in the day, only with modern-day actors and in color. These gags would look horrible if Eddie Murphy was trying to do them in a movie (oh, say, some horseshit like this), but if I don't focus on Larry being played by the guy who was the ultra-gay stereotype in Will & Grace, it looks and sounds like classic Stooges skits.

I probably still won't see it, because chances are the trailer is selling the only true Stooge-like parts of the movie (and the fact that there was a reason the original Stooges show was only 30 minutes long and not 90 minutes). So it still rings true as another piece of my childhood bastardized, but maybe only partially so.

Shit that Should Not Be

Just click on this link and let it roll for about five minutes. Let's just say, this guy (pictured) is heavily involved. And he hopefully got punched a lot by the cameraman and anyone else in the studio where this was filmed.

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Because it's Thanksgiving, we have to celebrate the holiday the proper way: with a clip from my wife and I's favorite show that is just for us, Mad About You. The show is dated, goofy, couple-y and all that gushy stuff, but we love it and the wife watches it on DVD anytime there is nothing but crap on and she never fails to still laugh at them.

The Thanksgiving episode Giblets for Murray is one of the show's best and it's from early in the show's run. Chucking turkeys out a window, dangling them from a string, and the revolving door of store-bought turkeys makes for great fun.

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It's not quite the holiday season yet, but Alec Baldwin would love for you to try his balls.

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Two weeks ago the wife and I decided to give Community a chance. To this point it's the one of two Thursday night comedy shows on NBC that I don't watch, and mainly because I didn't have the time to devote two hours on a Thursday night to TV. I got too much to do, and 30 Rock and The Office were the horses I rode in on.

But holy shit, I love this show. Behind Parks & Rec, it is officially my second favorite "I don't watch them live, because it's more fun to crash course through them in three days" TV shows. We've only watched season 1, but this show has fantastic characters, high comedy, irreverent winks and nods to movies and shows of my childhood, and of course someone I've adored all my life, Chevy Chase (even if he's 130 years old).

This show is so perfectly tailored for me that the wife, several times through our viewing of season 1, said, "I just don't know how this show can exist. It's too funny, and yet it seems only made to appeal to you and maybe five other people with your sense of humor." Maybe there are more of me than I think, but then again the ratings prove her right. It's not a wildly popular show, but then again neither was Arrested Development and that was pure genius also.

How oddly strange and beautiful is this show? They did a whole episode that was entirely about the campus becoming a giant paintball match. Let's just say Friends would have never tried to pull this off. But because it's Community, the episode (and all of them, quite frankly) are always a collection of one-liners and send-ups of Hollywood movies and past shows. The paintball episode we watched twice just because I had to try and count how many movies were referenced. It was a lot, and here is a funny clip from it.

Senor Chang as Chow Yun Fat (Luke would be proud):



And then there was the Halloween episode where Abed dressed and did a great Batman spoof.