Our weird cartoons

My friend Marky Mae Brown and I have known each other a long time. On a recent trip to Brooklyn, Marky Mae dug up these old cartoons we created when we were mere twentysomethings, killing time at the daily newspaper where we worked as copy boys.

Marky Mae drew the pics and I wrote the quips. Here are two from a larger series:

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We cracked up when we looked at them again. I keep trying to get Marky Mae to do a book-length series with me, but he doesn’t see their marketability.

But, seriously, wouldn’t you buy a book of these? Wouldn’t you?

The “Everyone Poops” trailer

Inspired the epic Spike Jonze Where The Wild Things Are trailer, some goofballs made a parody trailer for the perennial children’s favorite, Everyone Poops:

I think it looks pretty good! They should make a feature length, don’t you think?

I spent the day with the Marx Brothers

What did you do?

My new (old) Roz Chast book

Yesterday I found this old Roz Chast book of comics at the Cleveland Park branch library book sale for just 10 cents! 10 cents!

Remember: Roz will be giving a talk about fellow New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams April 26 here in D.C. as part of the Smithsonian American Arts Museum’s “American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series.”

Who’s going? I’ll be there.

Look at Tracy Turnblad now

Man, Ricki Lake is teh skinnies. And she done had a baby!

I need to watch the original Hairspray again. I never did see the one with Travolta in drag. Is it any good?

“Rhoda” on DVD, at long last

Thank Christ! I have griped very publicly about the fact that television’s Rhoda is not availbale on DVD. So imagine my joy when I just checked Amazon again (I’m obsessed) and learned the season one discs will be released April 21.

Hallelujah!

The series showed us Rhoda’s life after she left Minneapolis (and The Mary Tyler Moore Show) to follow her dream of being a high profile window dresser in the Big Apple. It starred, of course, Valerie Harper as Rhoda, but also future Simpsons voice star Julie Kavner as Rhoda’s little sis Brenda and the incomparable Nancy Walker as their lovably overbearing mother Ida.

The show featured guest spots from many of Rhoda’s friends back in Minneapolis including Mary Tyler Moore, Cloris Leachman, Ed Asner and Gavin Macleod and also showcased future stars like Judd Hirsch, and the late John Ritter and Ron Silver.

Do you love Rhoda? I can only vaguely remember watching this show in the 1970s. I was but a wee child so I’m super excited to experience it again!

Portia DeRossi apologizes for her gay marriage

Bravo to Jimmy Kimmel’s writers. This is hilarious.

Going to see “Sunshine Cleaning” in an hour

I’ve heard wildly mixed reviews. I’m crossing my fingers and hoping for mediocre. I like these two broads.

UPDATE: It was really good. Very enjoyable. Amy Adams and Emily Blunt were terrific together. The only part I objected to was the too-cheesy CB to heaven stuff.

And trivia: Amy played John Krasinski’s girlfriend on The Office on season one. Emily is his girlfriend in real life.

“The Ben Stiller Show” Manson skit

Speaking of Charles Manson, here is probably my favorite bit the cast of The Ben Stiller Show ever did. Look for Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, and the underrated Bob Odenkirk as Manson.

Hint: click twice to enlarge the screen.

It’s hilarious, right? Did you love The Ben Stiller Show, too? Best thing on television from 1990-92.

Which 1970s Quiz Show Gay are you?

Take my new quiz “Which 1970s Quiz Show Gay Are You?” to learn more about your true personality:

1. Your preferred style of comedy is:
a. sophisticated and fey
b. biting and sarcastic
c. manic and prop-filled

2. Your style of dress is:
a. neck scarves, leisure suits, gigantic eyeglasses
b. unbuttoned polyester shirts and gold chains
c. bad toupee and handlebar mustache

3. Pun or sexy double entendre?
a. double entendre
b. double entendre
c. pun (I am likely a eunuch)

4. Bitchiness is:
a. a competition between Brett and me
b. a way of life
c. something that makes me shred up paper and toss it in the air

If you picked mostly A, congratulations, your 1970s Quiz Show Gay personality is:
Charles Nelson Reilly

If you picked mostly B, congratulations, your 1970s Quiz Show Gay personality is:
Paul Lynde

If you picked mostly C, congratulations, your 1970s Quiz Show Gay personality is:
Rip Taylor