Comedy Archive |
Billy Connolly - My distress with the theater has reached the point where I skip
Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season One - "Curb Your Enthusiasm" --- Season One created by Larry David The first time Butler caught this show, he thought,
Eddie Izzard - Eddie Izzard is on tour. If you know his work, you are about to click. If you don't know his work, I will try to convince you not to stay
Entourage (Seasons 1 and 2) - Entourage (Seasons
Freaks and Geeks:The Complete Series - I never watched "Freaks and Geeks" when it aired in 1999-2000. For one thing, the title seemed too cutesy and self-aware. For another, I generally avoid a television series set
Garden State - Zach Braff has been the star of a popular TV show called “Scrubs” for three seasons. Butler 's missed it. ( Butler believes in the Auberon Waugh theory of TV:
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle - I have come to trumpet the virtues of another dumb comedy --- this time, a film made by the director of "Dude, Where's My Car?" Yes, Head Butler, defender of all that
It Should Happen to You - There are a half dozen reasons to fall in love with “It Should Happen to You,” a 1954 comedy from Columbia Pictures. George Cukor's stylish direction. Garson Kanin's witty and
Jeeves & Wooster: The Complete First Season - No site with a butler can be considered complete without the most famous valet of them all, Jeeves. (So you know: Valets handle one person, butlers
Little Miss Sunshine - Alan Arkin died. The Times obituary chronicles a long career, with many beloved movies and television shows. I'm focusing on "Little Miss Sunshine," which won him a Best Supporting Actor
Local Hero - A Texas oilman wants to buy a village in Scotland and turn it into a refinery. The townspeople are eager to sell it to him. The sale doesn’t happen. Why not? A few
Love Me Tonight - Imagine a musical that tells its story in a quasi-operatic style. Dialogue segues into song --- and instead of talking to one another, characters sing their thoughts
Mad Dogs - Guest Butler Jaime Pond is a New York anglophile and nerd. He is the editor of Anglonerd.com, "America's geekiest guide to British entertainment." “Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House - “A lot of our problems today are psychological,” John McCain said in April 2008. Then Phil Gramm called America’s troubles a “mental recession”. More than a year later, after enduring the
Napoleon Dynamite - If you've seen it, you know why "chatting online with babes" or working on "killer dance moves" or "the 24-piece set" are punch lines. As is "pinata." And "Tetherball." And that
Office Space - Do you know about “TPS reports?” Do you know the importance of a red stapler? If you can answer YES to both questions, you are smiling at the memory of “Office
Rainy Day Butler: 9 films for winter’s first storm. Ryan O’Neal. A Hanukah story. And more… - First, something NOT for you --- here’s where much of America’s online attention will be focused: the trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI trailer. It has 135 million views in
Ricky Gervais - There is no awards show sillier than the Golden Globes --- it’s not quite possible to buy a nomination from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, though wags like to say
The Big Lebowski - Someone who has seen this movie a lot --- and there are quite a few people who have seen it more than a hundred times --- says it's a retelling
