The tedious leftists at Vulture are sadly mistaken as usual. Here's [Read more...]
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My NEW Taki’s column: The great ones make it look hard
Not sure why they changed my rather obvious headline. I have NO prediction as to the "JOOOOO!!!"-yness of the comments... Yet rewatching That’s Entertainment last week reinforced my choice of Astaire’s nearest … [Read more...]
ExACTly!
Mel Brooks isn’t funny: My NEW Taki’s column
There goes my ZOG cheque. The comments will be obviously "JOOOOO!!!!"-y and "Women shouldn't be allowed to write." And, I suspect, plentiful. I was saving this for when the guy died but he just won't, … [Read more...]
Jim Goad: How To Deal With the Brainwashed
Jim Goad writes: To be a modern leftist is to embrace a constellation of lies. They eat lies as if they were corn flakes. Leftism is based on a false premise, and all political systems … [Read more...]
‘When Rosenbaum offered to send us his new Afterward to an updated edition of Explaining Hitler…’
... my answer to him was three words: “Dear god yes.” Here, appearing for the first time, is Ron Rosenbaum’s characteristically brilliant response to … [Read more...]
Hunchback and all: remains of Richard III found
The real mystery is, what will future generations think of Lord Olivier? Genius or ham? Tastes in acting evolve. I'm old … [Read more...]
Whereas the correct answer is ‘Psycho’ (1960)
Saw this coming since the restoration a few years back: [Read more...]
As I’ve been asking: is satire really ‘dead’ or has it always been just masturbatory and even counterproductive?
Ed Driscoll: We all had fun at first, when Kim Jong Il’s permanent vacation in Hell was announced on Sunday night, linking to images from Team America: World Police, and videos that highlighted just … [Read more...]
As I’ve been telling you: humor is NOT a lethal weapon
New book looks at "Humor in Hitler's Germany": Jokes about Hitler, Nazis, and concentration camps were pervasive before and during World War II: the least amusing era in history … [Read more...]
‘That is [Jerry] Lewis in a nutshell, obscurely brilliant, too funny to withstand…’
Lynn Crosbie: The documentary is exciting news, and one wonders if it might, at last, reveal footage from his 1972 locked-in-a-vault film, [Read more...]
Will ridicule work against belligerent Islam? Nope.
Woody Allen: "Has anybody read that Nazis are gonna march in New Jersey? Ya know? I read it in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, ya know, get some bricks and baseball bats, and really explain things to 'em."
Victor Truro: "There was this devastating … [Read more...]