Archive for the 'Saturday Night Drive-by' Category



Apparently the food is free. So we should sell it. And other blindingly simple solutions… like silk worms… and a machine that makes ‘it’.

Sure, she is well motivated… and her care factor is turned up to high but…. so very very odd in terms of a world view…. if only everything was so easy to solve.

Classic Comedy Moment 2

Following on from yesterday’s post featuring a classic comedy moment from Jerry Lewis, we’ve also stumbled across another sheer-lewis performance, this time from one of Jerry’s television shows. A drumming duel with jazz great  Buddy Rich.

Classic Comedy Moment

On a previous post I mentioned that I had ‘moved’ on from Jerry Lewis… of course I meant a full sitting of his films… that’s not to say that he was and currently ‘is’ still a sensational talent – just check this out if you ever had a doubt. Just brilliant.

Jerry Lewis and Elvis Presley

When I was a teen in the ’80′s – my weekends featured a solid television ritual. On Saturdays one of the networks would always screen a double feature of a Jerry Lewis with Dean Martin occasionally ‘tagging’ along film followed by an Elvis Presley film. I loved them both and wanted to be like them.

Oh Man – It’s A Performance Review

Yeah. It’s time. End of the financial year and the start of another and with that comes the strangest of business practices – the performance review.

Palin done Bollywood Style

Dug around and found a clip over at Will Ferrell’s site Funny or Die. There’s some really good stuff and some really ordinary stuff to wade through but I guess that’s the nature of comedy – humour is such a personal thing. Seriously – I think Midnight is one of the funniest Voodoonistas I know. [...]

Surplus – Not On My Watch!

Two of the largest states in Australia handed down budgets deep in the red, New South Wales into the billions and Queensland looking at eight consecutive years of deficits. Personal rant warning: I have an issue with any government local, state or federal posting a surplus. Not keen on the deficit mind you but really [...]

Air France Crash

No question that the recent Air France flight from Brazil that crashed is a tragedy. But I am left kinda amazed at two things – one, the fact that people are stunned a plane could crash and two the news coverage… I mean I am amazed they stay in the air in the first place. [...]