Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog

Silent movie fans note: we will be among those contributing to the Silentology blogathon on National Silent Movie Day on Tuesday, September 29.

While perusing, as opposed to the 1920's and early 1930's slapstick we often focus on, the latest news in the world of comedy (notably, two talented comediennes and filmmakers, Saidah Belo-Osagie and Grace Reiter, joining the Saturday Night Live cast for…

When the aficionados of 1930's movies here ponder great character actors and actresses, Ruth Donnelly, Frank McHugh, Aline McMahon, Hugh Herbert, Marie Dressler, Glenda Farrell, Guy Kibbee, Margaret Dumont, Jobyna Howland, Nat Pendleton, Allen Jenkins and…

Yes, you know him, you love him - this guy, the leader of the CBS Orchestra and composer of Powerhouse, the one, the only Raymond Scott!

Labor Day Weekend is here!

After a week in which, holy Toledo, freakin’ glaciers melted in Nepal and all-world all-star champion megawatt entertainers Dolly Parton and Tim Curry passed, the question of how the heck Monsieur Blogmeister can write today’s post arises.

That's right - there actually is a National Spumoni Day, August 21.

How the blog somehow missed the centenary of the birth of wacky, imaginative and marvelously goofy comedian Milton Supman, known professionally as Soupy Sales, back on January 8, we'll never know!

Today's hat tip goes to one of a favorite comedian and wordsmiths from my misspent youth, a TV producer who was also a lyricist, musician, satirist and prolific recording artist, the great Allan Sherman (1924-1973).

In a few weeks (on August 28), a new movie based on Warner Brothers Animation and desert dwellers Wile E.

This blog has recently profiled 1920's and 1930's comics Harry Sweet, Lloyd Hamilton, Joe Rock's Three Fat Guys a.k.a.

Today we conclude an extended focus on Jules White's Columbia Shorts Department with a tribute to director Edward Bernds.

Last week's post on rubber-legged slapstick master Leon Errol and silver screen humor essential Mel Brooks, as well as the previous one on The Three Stooges, has profoundly immersed this blog in the pratfall-packed world of physical comedy.

On the comedy beat from Broadway to vaudeville to movies, thinking of two terrific icons of silver screen humor, both of whom crack us up, only every time.

Needing laughs big time today, along with guffaws, chortles, chuckles, giggles and howls, so slapstick scenarios involving funny fat guys falling down sound FANTASTIC!

Today we tip a battered top hat worn by a boisterous and three sheets to the wind Ted Healy to the great Moe Howard, ace of slapstick!

Thinking, as we do often, of movie comedians who successfully transitioned from silents to talkies.

We're not kidding - June 8 indeed is National Name Your Poison Day.

We continue reeling in no uncertain terms from bad news from last week.

Memorial Day Weekend is here. 2026 still looks like this.

As the gang here in the Hudson Valley wishes we could take a Star Trek teleportation device - used or new - directly to the San Francisco Bay Area to enjoy the annual Charlie Chaplin Days event presented by the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum this weeken…

Obscure or lesser known movie comedians, anyone?

Photo by Tommy Lau Classic movie aficionados lucky enough to both be within a close distance of San Francisco and have some dough-re-me on hand to spend will get quite the treat when the San Francisco Silent Film Festival hits the Castro Theatre from May…

This weekend, we pay tribute to pioneering animation producer and director Walter Lantz (1899-1994).

As fate would have it, the month of April is notable for birthdays of outstanding comedians and comediennes from silent movies.

Today we salute the innovative producer, director and animator Norman McLaren.

Here at Way Too Damn Lazy To Write A Blog, today's holiday means Easter movies, rabbit-laden cartoons and TV show clips.

Today we spotlight the post-WW2 UK heroes of comedy: the British invasion that preceded the Rickenbacker-brandishing lads from Liverpool, beginning with The Goon Show And Beyond The Fringe And Peter Cook and Dudley Moore