They did it for ten years before they cut it. This week, starting last Friday to be exact, HBO’s airing a special with Dick Cavett and Mel Brooks. Watch it. But even better was the hype on Sirius XM. Where Tom Papa interviewed Mel Brooks. It rivaled Bob Costas’s brilliant extended exchange of two decades […]

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM It’s been a lackluster season. It didn’t really warm up until Larry got to New York. And the arrival of Leon in Larry’s Prius, not wanting to endure airport security for a cross-country flight, was a masterstroke. But the piece de resistance was not last night’s stunting with Mayor Bloomberg, or even […]

Are you watching this? It’s so EXCITING! It’s called the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, but all you’ve got to know is it’s the same crew from the Tour de France, but now they’re racing in Colorado, where the peaks touch the sky. Yesterday was a time trial. Down in the flats. Today they rode over […]

‘Conan’ Falls Flat in Season 1 You can’t be mainstream in an indie backwater. Few remember Zach Galifianakis had a late night show on VH1. I’d like to tell you it was good, that not only did it live up to the hype, but it’s a buried treasure, something you must seek out, like "Freaks […]