Don’t play this one for your mother

Almost two years after the infamous 9/11 release of The Best Of The Red Peters Comedy Music Hour, Vol. 1, the reviews keep rolling in.

Let me just flip through some of the reviews here…hmmm, don’t have any. Must have misplaced them. Continue reading

Posted in: News at 11:01 pm Sat, Aug 22, 2009.

How to survive Auschwitz

Just imagine what Poland’s besieged Jewish community might have accomplished with the informational and emotional resources of Twitter and Psychology Today, had they been available back in 1944.

Oy! The tragedy! Even today, Twitter, with its inexhaustible cache of self-styled #lifecoachweasel(s) and green-themed avatars, has stoked me with the emotional support to weather such traumatic events as Iran election riots and the John and Kate divorce. Continue reading

Posted in: Hot Topics at 2:08 am Wed, Jul 15, 2009.

Do we have any asses here today?

“And now it’s time for the blues portion of our show,” I warned the collected faithful at Bill’s Records, mid-way through the Nov. 1, 2008, show that continues to spit out (now classic) video singles.

“This next here song’s called My Fat Ass Itches — ’cause it does.”

Guitar tip: Capo the E-chord up to the sixth fret, and you can actually play My Fat Ass Itches in the key of B-fat. Really wows the crowd! Continue reading

Posted in: Video at 3:34 pm Wed, Jul 8, 2009.

Another podcaster pays the price

Dave Lee probably figures he’s built a solid foundation of work and a loyal audience over 65 weekly episodes of the U.K.-based Bugcast.

I, on the other hand, have absolutely nothing invested in the chat-and-music program, and see Dave’s archive as a soundbed of coughs, sighs, belches, grunts and assorted exclamations I can combine with a few non-sequiters to completely mischaracterize his intent.

In other words, I’ve alienated another podcaster who foolishly played one of my songs (The Ballad Of Morris The Cat, on Episode 56). Continue reading

Posted in: Podcast Roundup at 2:44 am Fri, Jul 3, 2009.

Whooo! Kahn Man drops Season 5 Finale

Seems like its only been a century since Tyrone Kahn took up podcasting, but he’s actually concluded two seasons of the Kahn Man’s Comedy Corner.

As the Season 5 (including three seasons streaming on the Live365 network) Finale drops on iTunes, the excitable Kahn Man is already planning new business for his return in September.

For one thing, the Season 6 opener will introduce Tyrone’s latest single. Can’t tell you the title, but think Beatles parody, following his 2008 mega-hit Let Me Pee. Continue reading

Posted in: Dementia at 5:22 pm Tue, Jun 30, 2009.