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"This is where I came in" This is an expression that people used to say all the time. Now, it's only an expression that onl...

Livonia is a very nice suburb of Detroit, here in Michigan. Until I lived here, I'd never heard of it. It first came to my attention p...

Speaking of all things Stooge-related, Kevin Pollak, on his Chat Show podcast recently, told a story which was totally fabricated. Not that...

That's what Officer Joe Bolton, who entered the set swinging his billy club on each episode of the Three Stooges reruns on WPIX, Channe...

So last night, I tune in to "Countdown With Keith Olbermann", only to find someone else sitting in his chair. Former New York Go...

So there I am, somewhere around the Indiana-Michigan border, entering a Subways sandwich shop. For my usually sumptuous Tuna Fish Foot Long...

From the title of this article, one might get the impression that I am about to go off on some wild tangent about something that really anno...

Okay. I'm at Newark Airport in 1982, waiting to board my flight back to Ohio. There is a huge rainstorm, accompanied by thunder and li...

We're at the top of the stretch with this story now. One more post after this, and it will be wrapped up. We shot and aired the Odd C...

So, with the image of Phil Silvers as Bilko, his head wrapped in bandages, appearing on the $64,000 Question, I took the Great Circle Route ...

So I was digging for gold and found it in the Bilko goldmine. I harkened back to an episode of Bilko where it was established that one of ...

So we had half a story sitting on the shelf for over a year and weren't able to beat it. Oscar has to fill in for the Theatre Critic a...

I've been writing about Phil Silvers lately, and I have long been aware that I've been holding back on telling easily my best Phil S...

If you read the last post, you are now familiar with "Taste The Borscht". When I was about twenty, and still living at home with...

I had intended to tell you a story about my mother, involving the old standard joke, known in most Jewish circles as "Taste The Borscht...

Let's say that you've booked a cruise on a top of the line cruise ship. Let's say it's the Costa Concordia. Let's say ...

Okay. So last November 7th, I receive an e-mail from Zisser, asking me for my mailing address. Something I assumed he had. Either I had m...

Considering the time of year it is, and in this specific instance, you bet your ass it should. You are catching me today with my dander up....

Frank Capra directed some really great movies. "It Happened One Night" "Mr. Deeds Goes To Town" Mr. Smith Goes To Wa...

Today's incident is the one that inspired this whole series of articles. It's the one that reminded me of the original "Old Br...