Felling sad? Feeling blue? Well, cheer up! If you don't, I'll send the Slop Sisters to perform in your living room…

My current fave stand-up comic is Dana Gould and I was fortunate to have him on a couple of panels at Comic-Con International this year. Here he is from a few years ago discussing marital relationships and — in a related topic — what to do when confronted by a bear…

This is a 1971 (or so) commercial for Taster's Choice coffee. The man playing the detective sounds a lot like Paul Frees doing his Inspector Fenwick character from the Dudley Do-Right cartoons. That's probably because the actor playing the part is Paul Frees…

Here — at some club in Nashville, singing live to a recorded track — is Jasmine Amy Rogers, star of the now-shuttered Boop! The Musical. In fact, she's singing the Act I closer from that show.

As I understand it, the producers are negotiating for a national tour of the show — not an easy sale as Ms. Rogers has received many an offer to do other things and probably wouldn't be part of that tour. At the same time, they've also released the rights for local productions so maybe others will stage it. I'd really like to see it at least once.

Here are two commercials with Yogi Bear and Boo Boo urging folks to not smoke. I think that's Don Messick doing Boo Boo in both but only the first is Daws Butler as Yogi. The second, which was obviously done years later, isn't Daws but with these short commercials, it's sometimes hard to identify the voice actors with great certainty.

Yogi in the second spot sounds like Greg Burson, a student of Daws' who took on the role after Daws left us. Burson, who was a good friend of mine, outlived Daws by about twenty years but still died much too young — in part because of cigarettes…

And now for something completely you-know-what: A Monty Python sketch we don't see very often…

I know it's a little late for breakfast but here's a vintage commercial for Cap'n Crunch cereal featuring the voices of Bill Scott, Paul Frees, June Foray and Daws Butler…

I haven't been to New York in quite a while so I missed the recent Broadway revival of Merrily We Roll Along with Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez. Here's a video they made singing one of my favorite Sondheim songs from that show. It's a good eleven o'clock number…

The other night on Stephen Colbert's show, he and guest Judd Apatow got to talking about old comedians who are not well-remembered. One of the names mentioned was that of Professor Irwin Corey, who I usually — maybe 75% of the time — found to be uproariously funny, especially because no one — including the host of any show he was on and Corey himself — seemed to know what he would do or say next.

That mention probably caused a lot of people to race to YouTube (or some site) and search for "Irwin Corey." And what most of them probably found was this segment from David Letterman's old NBC show for December 6, 1983. It was the Professor's one and only appearance with Dave and it's hard to tell if right after it, Dave told his producers, "Never book that guy again!" Because while the audience sure found Corey funny, Dave doesn't look all that happy to be so totally excluded from his own show…

In case you missed it (as I did): A few months ago on Stephen Colbert's show, Jonathan Groff and members of the Broadway show, Just in Time, performed a number from it. And a pretty good number it was…

If you saw the movie Saturday Night, you saw a version — not quite the real one — of what happened just before the first telecast of the series we now know as Saturday Night Live. Some of it involved George Carlin, who was the host that night. Here's George's version of what happened…

Here's the Superman March as performed by the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. I thought this song by John Williams was the third-best thing about this movie, the first being that on it, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster finally got screen credit — a recognition for which they and others had fought so long and so hard. I thought the second-best thing was how Christopher Reeve looked in the costume. And I don't have a fourth-best thing…

You're probably wide awake at this very moment, unable to sleep because you're wondering when this blog will finally feature a bunch of Harvard Undergraduate Drummers playing "The James Bond Theme" on boonwhackers. Well, you can finally sleep peacefully…

It's been a while since I've featured a video by Lord Vinheteiro. He's the man who likes to play familiar tunes which we don't know the names of while he stares accusingly at us…

The great comedy writer and cabaret performer Ray Jessel left us about ten years ago. Ah, but when he left us, he left us a lot of funny songs like this one…