I usually don’t cover sports personalities in my pop-culture writing, but John Madden’s reach transcended football. He got his start in coaching almost immediately out of college (he played in college and was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles, but a knee injury in his first training camp ended his career before it even began), […]
First, I wanted to start this off with this lovely excerpt from Norm’s Based on a True Story— an ostensible memoir packed with loads of obvious, hilarious bullshit– posted today by Sean O’Neal: I think about these two and a half pages from Norm Macdonald’s book constantly. When I reviewed it, I wrote that they […]
In 1963 I was working backstage at Second City and heard Fred Willard introduce a scene by saying ‘Let’s take a sleigh ride through the snow-covered forests of Entertainment.’ That was my first encounter with Greatness, and I knew it was my destiny not to become, in the tradition of my family, a labor […]
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