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…

On this site, we love a cappella singing groups like Pentatonix. We also love the song "Bohemian Rhapsody" as well as variations on "Bohemian Rhapsody." So…

I'll let Perry Como introduce this one…

Imagine for a moment — as you probably have — that you were very, very rich…rich enough and so into gambling that one of the top Vegas hotels would send a private jet for you, your loved one(s) and your money. Especially your money.

They would fly you to Vegas at their expense and comp you the most beautiful suite with servants and the finest meals you could imagine. And also imagine how much cash they'd have to expect you to lose in their casino to make a profit on giving you all those luxuries.

Here is just part of what you'd experience if Wynn Las Vegas invited you to be their guest…

This blog was offline for a little over an hour just now and it had nothing to do with the computer problems I was having earlier in the day. Oddly enough, it also had nothing to do with any of the "why this blog is not available" explanations that you read on your screen if you came here during that time. The hosting company was just doing maintenance work on their servers.

Several people who wrote me during that period thought it was a joke; that I was going to "make it up to you" for not posting more yesterday by discontinuing this blog. Nope. You'll see how I'm going to try making it up to you if you come back here later.

My computer is back online, no thanks to the Tech Support folks at the company that sold it to me. What went wrong was that I installed the latest updates they told me to install and buried in there was a new driver for my Ethernet connection and it caused things in that department to shut down. They were of no help but fortunately, I have a great guy-who-fixes-computers who only charged me a modest amount for digging around in my settings and undoing the upgrade.

As I said, I'll be making things up to you tomorrow.