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I rode an elevator* with him once after the SNL I went to live -- the only time I went to the show live, but still... I was in the "green room"! I'm so fancy, and I'm sure you're all green (ha ha) with envy!

*And, no (always have to add this disclaimer for you bunch of pervs), "rode an elevator" is not some pervy euphamism for anything!

Why?
 

I used to give up caffeine every summer. For awhile. And then I got addicted to iced vanilla lattes. MMMMMM.

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Early Robin Williams. Hands down.

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One of my all time favorite jokes is recent Robin Williams - the one about inventing golf. Hi-larious.

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What is the Simpson's live?
Funniest is hard, but someone who was real funny as a stand-up, but forgotten now, is Leno. Jay before taking the Tonight Show was great, the bit about the emergency instructions in an airliner, the slogan for the airlines that had recent crashes, "We go where the others don't". It's tough to make plane crashes funny, but he did.
I think he does stand-up still on weekends, but I bet he is very white-bread.
He was ruined, or crippled by the Tonight Show. Of course, he was compensated for the damage.

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Coke-free Robin isn't half as funny as coked-up Robin.

Fancy schmancy
 

Speaking of fancy...in People mag this week, Oprah celebrates her 50th birthday. One of her pictures shows her with a sweater tied around her neck. Hmm. This really doesn't seem like her style. And yet it was Oprah. Many women will try to copy this look - you just wait and see.

In other news, the woman standing next to me on the train this morning (and constantly invading my personal space and rubbing up against me) was wearing a velour running suit.

Why?
 

Today, and every day, honey. Why do you ask?

Fancy schmancy
 

WEll, be glad it was a velour suit, not a sandpaper one.

But did it say "Juicy" on the ass?

Fancy schmancy
 

MMm, didn't get a look at the ass, as I was sitting down and she was standing and facing me. I was very uncomfortable. I need my personal space and her crotch was damn near in my face - I was looking away for the most part.

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I fixed your offending apostrophe.

A few summers ago at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal (home of the Museum of Humour, btw) the cast members of the Simpsons sat on stage and acted out an episode. Sounds like it wouldn't work, but it did. Then they did funny ad-libs. I developed a crush on Hank Azaria. Then they took questions from the audience and some were pretty lame. I was star-struck and couldn't think of anything intelligent to ask, unfortunately, so I didn't ask anything.

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Yes the but the golf joke is his best work. Right up there with the viagra joke (with water bottle as prop).

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I don't know -- I liked the fourth and fifth jokes in those sets better.

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Stand up comic: A guy named David Feldman at the Punchline in S.F. He was more famous for writing Dennis Miller's jokes, but was pretty good himself. Saw him on TV once, and he totally sucked. But the night I saw him live, I was dehydrated from crying so much. Honorable mention: Greg Proops, same place, same show.

Comic actor: Ricky Gervais. Close second: Christopher Guest.

DXM
 

Two seemingly unrelated things tied together. So I went to the store the other day looking for cough drops. My favorite, and the only thing that works for me are the ones with dextromethorphan. Went to several drug stores and could not find. Bought Halls or something. So I'm reading the People mag, and there is a story about how the youth of today are abusing dextromethorphan for its hallucinogenic qualities - however, many kids are dying from it. It talks about abusing cough syrup and cold tablets. It's called robotrippin.

Anyone ever hear of this?

The parents of these kids want this DXM (which you can buy over the internet apparently) to be put "behind the counter" or to be made a controlled substance. Cough drops? Really?