Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comedy. Show all posts

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem (1993


Infamous bandit Doc Snyder returns to his hometown Texas after 30 years to get his other to wash his dirty laundry.

The comedian and musician Helge Schneider has his cult following in Germany, and his absurd and anarchaic humour has a limited appeal; but in his first movie, a Western of some kind, it rarely translates to the screen, and the overabundance of scatological jokes doesn't help (tellingly, the movie's tagline translates to "For a fistful of shit") nor does Schneider's babytalk performance.

Saturday, August 20, 2016

First Lines: Gilda Radner - It's Always Something


Like in the romantic fairy tales I always loved, Gene Wilder and I were married by the mayor of a small village in the south of France, September 18, 1984.

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

New Stuff: Bill Cosby


I must admit I've always liked Bill Cosby's TV shows. A recent article on Cosby in The New Yorker mentions this film of his stand-up comedy is probably the best he has ever achieved, so I thought I'd need to watch it.


Tuesday, January 21, 2014