After talking about music the last few weeks, tonight I’m discussing some of the humour I enjoy.
I tend to avoid overtly political comedians, although I guess I’ll always be a Saturday Night Live stan. (More on that in coming weeks.) I don’t feel the need to sit in an echo chamber, listening to a sermon for the already-converted. I can barely get past the cold open of “SNL” these days. Also, in Canada our politicians & their scandals pale in comparison to average US ones.
So, I tend to lean towards the more observational comedians. They’ll talk politics, but not so much that it wears me down.
Eddie Izzard has always been a favourite. I think it’s because he mixes in academics with his observations. Appealing to my history degree is always a good way to keep me interested in your efforts.
He’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but I find Lewis Black to be more absurdist than political, especially when he goes off into his ‘old man’ rants that echo my own beliefs.
In a way, I find him to be the 21st Century equivalent to Sam Kinison.
Anyway, there’s more insight into the mind of a Beerguy. Next week – who knows?
Tonight’s sports:
- AAF:
- Salt Lake at San Diego – 8:00PM | NFLN
- NHL:
- Leafs at Oilers – 7:00PM | CBC / NHLN
- Senators at Bruins – 7:00PM | Sportsnet1
- Vegas at Canucks – 10:00PM | CBC
- NBA:
- Celtics at Lakers – 8:30PM | ABC / TSN2
- NCAA:
- Duke at *North Carolina – 6:00PM | ESPN
- Oklahoma at Kansas State – 6:00PM | ESPN2
- Michigan at Michigan State – 8:00PM | ESPN
- DePaul at Creighton – 8:00PM | FS1
- Tulsa at Memphis – 9:30PM | ESPNU
- Oregon at Washington – 10:00PM | ESPN
- Fútbol:
- MLS:
- Real Salt Lake vs. Whitecaps FC – 6:00PM | TSN
- Liga MX:
- Club América vs. Puebla – 7:55PM | UNI
- Querétaro vs. Guadalajara – 9:55PM | UNI
- MLS:
- Boxing:
- PBC Fight Night: Porter-Ugas (welterweights) – 8:00PM | FOX
- UFC Fight Night: Lewis vs. Dos Santos
- Prelims – 6:00PM | TSN5 / ESPN+
- Main Card – 8:00PM | TSN5 / ESPN+
- SNL:
- Vintage: Host: Luke Perry; Music: Mick Jagger – 10:00PM | NBC
- Live show: Host: Idris Elba; Music: Khalid – 11:30PM ET / 8:30PM PT – NBC / Global
HAVE AT IT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu9wkm82FUw
Aw shit I drank too much
That’s his Raiders!
AB is going to hate life for a while I think.
Here’s an interesting way to look at it – the Raiders gave up Amari Cooper and a 3rd and a 5th and got back Antonio Brown and a 1st. That’s not very Raiders at all!
Of course, Amari was only 15mm for 3 years, while AB will be 50mm.
Also, Gruden is picking that 1st.
So, he turned down Buffalo for Oakland/Las Vegas?
BWHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
During my travels through all of this glorious land the best music, food, soul and culture came from New Orleans.
It’s in my soul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7M8ZkQma3I
Anyone got a quarter for the jukebox?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_uNMy20qAI
I am hammered.
That is all.
Your suggestion of Shake Shack was duly noted and highly praised.
That was a tasty burger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecc0nbg9m-8
UDub getting punked at home by the Fighting Waterfowl so far.
This is amusing.
The Conference of Champions is a LIE!
Banish this team to the NIT. Turrible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buga_CduDv4
I moved my clocks ahead just now.
I’m living in the future.
Start up your flying car and come pick me up already!!!!!!
I’ve got legal weed! Seriously!
Selfish bastard! I moving my clocks backwards. I have to work those poor fools about the future!
We’re from the future!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaCCkfjPm0o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O9P5Us_eVo
I read the lyrics to this song are partly about a homemade humidifier (?!?!) exploding in Joey’s face. Apparently he was a weak seed, and was constantly sick. That must’ve been the most miserable van in rock & roll history.
In the documentary End of the Century Joey Ramone’s brother says he drove their van through the northeast early in their career and once they stopped at a late night diner and a woman was crying because she thought they were retarded.
Wonder if Zibanejad is part of the Rangers’ rebuilding plan, or just bait for more draft picks.
Oh hey.
OUCH, MY AORTA!!!!
(too soon?)
MOAR LIEK to late imo
No shit. I watched a doc about him a coupla days ago. His demise saved his brother’s life. Brother had same thing, got diagnosed, and fixed.
So that’s kinda cool. Well not for him, but cool for the brother.
Better physical comedic performance: Ritter in “Three’s Company” or Hagman in “I Dream Of Jeannie”?
Ritter did more falling, but Hagman got more love.
Another fine actor too good for this Sinful Earth.
Emo? Great voice? Tall? Thin? Small boobies? Deep and soulful? oh, u noes Hippo loves Sharon Van Etten
Beyond me being a creepy old fuck, I think she has the song of 2019 so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7sTHoeH0eA
I cannot disagree. But she needs to get off that fence.
That’s good Hippo. Real good.
My local guys are headlining a tour.
Headlining the Forum and Red Rocks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxJhrwyn0M4
Oh this one’s better
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Serious question folks:
I currently pay an average of 250 bucks a month for Directv. I have the Sunday Ticket for the Vikings and MLB Extra Innings for the Cubbies and I have almost all of the Premier channels.
Anyone else watch that new like D&D show called Game of Thrones?
It’s wild!
I also pay 50 bucks for my ISP and 60 bucks a month for the landline that it jumps through.
Minimum 350 a month for home entertainment.
I only watch movies, food and travel, Better Call Saul and sports. I also stream Netflix and Amazon. SHIT! That’s another 12 bucks.
Is there a better or cheaper way?
Help a brother out.
You find whomever it was that set that TV and internet pricing and you recreate Joe Pesci’s last scene in Casino. For the bullshit expensive highest tier Charter cable TV and internet, I’m paying 170 a month and I want to scalp the fuckers every time I make the payment.
I dropped Sunday Ticket. Fortunately don’t need Extra Innings because I’m barely in the Orioles’ map (which is nothing to brag about these days of course) and also the Nats’ too!!!
I dropped all premium channels (will do HBO Online when Westworld starts up again) and dropped down a level on the channel level.
Only thing I’ve missed is the docs on Military Channel.
Wait sorry, they call it the American Heroes Channel now.
This is really fun, I’m in the Dodgers home market and the Angels and shit, they show us a lot of Padres games but there’s this ongoing thing between the Dodgers TV network and Directv and I never see the Dodgers games. It’s like they don’t exist!
Which is OK because fuck the Dodgers.
But I have to see my Cubbies. Set the DVR.
My family told Spectrum to eat shit and die. We replaced them with Amazon Fire Sticks (with Prime) and Hulu and Sling. Not sure of cost, but you’ll need a good internet connection.
Spectrum won’t even run a line down my road because there aren’t enough customers to make it worth it.
So yes, I too have told them to eat shit and die. Usually when they repeatedly accost me at Walmart begging me to sign up.
That’s a very North Carolina sentence right there Seamus.
Tough, but fair.
Don’t forget to change your clocks tonight.
Except for you Blax.
I’ve got someone that does that for me.
She can adjust my pendulum anytime.
Just home from Captain Marvel. A solid B+. The Stan Lee tributes were first rate.
My concern is they’ll make her too powerful and completely take the suspense out of the movies.
Its like with Superman, I enjoy the story and acting (Christopher Reeve is the best, but Dean Cain was underrated as well), but when it comes to the bad guys, its not a matter of how Superman will beat them, but when.
Looks like all of my streaming capabilities are shot for the evening.
Let’s get high and blog!
Evening lizard people. Please vote because the 5-12 is currently tied and I don’t want to have to break the ties. NOBODY LIKES THE BETTMAN POINT!
Since this isn’t Chicago or New Orleans I can only vote once.
And I voted.
Have any of you watched Chef’s Table on Netflix? I just watched the episode with Niki Nakayama about her restaurant here in LA called N/Naka and it was astounding. Her dedication to craft, precision and what foods are at their perfect tastes is fucking inspirational.
It was a brilliant episode.
I really hope she reads my post about Shit On A Shingle that’s going up next weekend.
Maybe it will bring her to tears too.
Always brought me to tears when I had to eat it. Creamed chipped beef is like that garbage you see in magazine adds from the 40’s where they’re trying to trick white people into eating hotdog jello molds and shit, except people keep making it for some fucking reason.
But this one is ELEVATED!
OK, if you’ll excuse me for a bit I have to go have a fight via text msg for like the 23rd consecutive day.
(this shit is getting really old)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26wEWSUUsUc
Cheesin….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b-kIGp__SY
The Kuch is lose in Tampa, puts the Bay up 3-1 with his second of the night.
Welp, it took all day but I’m finally done with our taxes. I’m gonna go get so stoned that I can’t get up from the couch for the next 16 hours.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0zaebtU-CA
How much are we getting back, honey?
We owe $600. It’s not as bad as I’d feared, but still a pain in the ass.
Oh, well in that case I want a divorce.
One of my guys at work who has a wife that’s a Level 5 at Boeing, hint: that’s really high level, had the same thing happen to him. I’m single, kids are grown, super fucking easy return and I was about the same as usual for my tax return.
Herr Cheeto really did some goodness with those tax breaks, ja?
last funny:
[Eulogy]
I can still hear his last words. “I’m *chokes back tears* I’m gonna try and put my hat on that bear.
This one goes out to the lovely and talented Brick Meathook…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy8mEOhSk0s
Except for the part about being a girlfriend that song is about how I’m going to be in about an hour.
Two stoners drive into a Colorado avalanche last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPJTRE1mt6k
I don’t remember that scene from Up In Smoke .
How on earth does anybody get sexually harassed by a fat paraplegic in a wheelchair?
Maybe it’s got a kickass motor in it and he can run them down.
Its the words, not the action.
Tom Greiss with a solid .667 sv% so far tonight
Feeling too good about humanity right now. Time to watch Leaving Neverland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=271gbSxVrNk&t=834
In a little while I’m going to pick up my dead ex-girlfriend at LAX. They’re flying her corpse in from Jackson Hole, WY. I’ll have the red caps slide her casket into the back of my SUV and then it’s off to dinner in Beverly Hills, which I will bill to her estate. The best part is that I can say anything I want and she can’t get mad.
I’m really hoping you’re joking, because I really want to make a shitload of jokes.
Cheap date.
You won’t have to go Dutch.
She can’t eat dinner and then say “no” to sex.
Shit, what else?
Why on earth would I joke about something so very very tragic? I just hope the valet guys don’t try to fuck her while I’m in the restaurant.
She can’t order the lobster and then say she’s full after eating the bread and salad.
She won’t disappear into the ladies’ room for 20 minutes.
Shit, what else?
You won’t have to worry about a fly in your soup, because they’ll all be on her.
Shit, what else?
GODDAMMIT THERE’S GOT TO BE A JACKSON HOLE JOKE BUT I CAN’T CRAFT IT!!!!
Time for a beer.
Oh oh….
Why didn’t she just stay in the hole?
Nailed it!!!!! I’ve earned that beer now.
I’m glad that you are amused by my tragic situation.
If you’re actually serious, I’m just trying to lighten the mood and do certainly feel for you.
But you started it!!!!!!!!
(My dead ex wife concurs)
I don’t think there’s anything funny about me having to drive from the airport to a Beverly Hills restaurant with a casket sticking out of the back of my Explorer.
But there could be if you wrote Just Married on the end of it
Hehehe
In this traffic?!? That’s insane!
You know I love ya.
I’ve got America-Puebla in TV1 and the Clásico Regio in TV2. Both are ye ole TWBS at the moment, but we’re only 24 minutes in.
/gets nervous
Wait what did I do in Mexico?
Oh you’re talking about fútbol. You silly boy.
You know exactly what you did.
I know at least some of the things I did. Some, not so much.
Tom Izzo looks a little stressed.
Meanwhile in Jupiter
Can you imagine the gravity around Mark Davis’ head? It’s the only thing which explains the haircut.
That’s gotta be a fucking wig.
Flyers now beating the shit out of the Islanders, as is tradition. There exists a scenario where the Flyers hit 100 points and don’t make the playoffs. I hope this year makes the NHL change its shitty playoff format.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NxMlG3M40k
Good pick.
Nostalgic for breakout ska performer Gwen Stefani today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZktNItwexo
Funny you should say that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OLUSELxFok
Tragic Kingdom was such a good fucking album, and they had some good songs after that, but her shit after 2005ish is basically unrecognizable from the No Doubt years. It’s crazy how the thing everybody was supposed to be sad about in the Don’t Speak video is exactly what she went ahead and did.
Agreed. But she’s still hot. And psssst… (she’s next week’s special Princess for Sexy Friday).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt1YkGO2Ieo
50 in October. Time is a mother fucker.
Yeah, tell me about it.
When I worked in Vancouver back in 2006 they had a crippled mayor in a wheelchair.
It was the most Vancouver thing ever. I’m pretty sure that’s why he got elected.
Vancouver got Garkle’d.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K_gBjKqBLg
That Eddie Izzard “Dressed to Kill” act was one of the best routines I’ve ever seen. Had my stoned ass rolling.
This morning’s new DuckTales episode had Paget Brewster’s character speaking for the majority of 20 minutes. She has a very attractive voice, but coming from a duck, it was getting weird.
Thankfully any weird feeling were cancelled out by the awesomeness of the “Moon Theme” from the 1989 DuckTales game being used as both music and be given actual lyrics in a heartwarming and tear jerking way.
I have been triggered by so many emotions since the 1:13 mark of the “How It Should Have Ended: Avengers: Endgame Trailer” video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwjF3QWCrXA
Whut’s up mah bitches?
And great thanks once again to BeerGuyRob for the asterisk.
Red Wings at Tampa tonight is like Rutgers playing the Patriots the day after Belichick got shot down by Linda from accounting. And every Rutgers player has been replaced by a sack of potatoes.
Marinating some salmon right now. Gonna fire up the grill in an hour and keep watching Game of Thrones. It’s funny how no one ever talks about how good that show is.
[LCSS starts singing “Reynes of Castamere”]
Salmon: [Marinading intensifies]
Game of Thrones is the most under-rated TV show ever. Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person who’s ever seen it.
found a funny:
Requiring everyone’s clocks to be the same is communism. Let the free market decide what time it is.
Is it March madness yet? Things don’t feel mad yet.
This. Is. March.
Hope the [DFO] lawyers can keep Rothstein at bay for this.
I made my burger decision today and went with…
Shake Shack.
Good god that was delicious!
I had the double smoke shack, some chicken bites and fries. Did the carry out so I could drink beers with it.
Lemme tell ya. That burger is a fucking contender. I like the crinkle cut fries but I still think Five Guys Cajun fries are a little better. That burger though? I’ll do that again.
Maybe I’ll try Five Guys next week and In-n-out after that.
This place is rock solid.
does shake shack have milk shakes too?
Isn’t it frozen custard?
And something called a “concrete”.
Beer for me thank you.
I have friends going to the Fleet game tonight, whereas I have other plans. Looking at the remaining schedule, there’s a game next Sunday on Irish X-mas which I think it would be fun to take my Dad to, provided I don’t drink a case of Guinness prior to that.
The scumbag in the wheelchair is my Minister of Parliament. He is an utter douchebag.
Will you trade him straight up for a Mitch McConnell or do we have to throw in a first round pick to sweeten the deal?
I’ll kick in the ingredients for turtle soup.
I’ll start the soup by building a nice dark roux.