Well if you don't know Spike Milligan you darn well should. Along with Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine, and Peter Sellers, Milligan wrote and performed in the BBC seminal radio show The Goon Show which fostered Beyond The Fringe, Cook and Moore and of course Monty
There have been three truly great social humorists in American history, Mark Twain, Will Rogers and Jon Stewart. The least known today is the guy bookended by the other two. Now I was sorta disappointed that this documentary was as old as it was (1961)
Think of a row of dominos as scenes in a film. The first domino strikes the one before it; the impact launches a second tile into a third, and so on. In the fall of a single domino you have dramas essence, in the striking
In deciding to watch this documentary it doesn't matters greatly if you support capital punishment or oppose it. This is a fairly balanced analysis of the death penalty in America with arguments and testimonies more representative of the two sides overall than, generally, you find
This is a lovely little documentary about the history of American ventriloquism over the last 70 years. While not comprehensive nor scholarly it is genuine and heartfelt. If you're a fan of Jeff Dunham then you should enjoy this little examination, but if the only
What can be said about A Haunted House 2? My, it is rare to see such a testament to mediocrity. Not funny, unless you're an eighteen year old 'dude' sitting on a couch in your folk's basement stoned out of your mind. Hmmmm. I take
Wow! What a remarkably haphazard and poorly structured thesis to use as the foundation for a documentary! A more insipid, puerile, substandard, shoddy and asinine effort you'd be hard pressed to find. What are some of its sins? Well for starter it contains logical inconsistencies and
With hardly an exception the American Experience historical programs are gems. That the dumb heads in congress have succeeded in striking down the funding for both public TV and radio, crippling the ability to produce such shows as these, Ken Burns Civil War, and many
