Three Stooges--"Carpenters" (1936)

Curley of the Three Stooges, in this short, is particularly "suave" as he passes the police officers on the lookout for he and Moe and Larry.

Jerome "Curley" Howard on Wikipedia

Curley's Bio at The Three Stooges Website

Classic comic scene with the Marx brothers

Duck Soup (Movie, 1933) at IMDb.com


Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1891[1] – August 19, 1977), was a Jewish American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his siblings the Marx Brothers, of which he was the third-born. He also had a successful solo career, most notably as the host of the radio and television game shows You Bet Your Life and Tell it to Groucho.[2] His distinctive appearance, carried over from his days in vaudeville, included quirks such as glasses, cigars, and a thick greasepaint mustache and eyebrows.

Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Childhood and pre-Hollywood career
1.2 Hollywood
1.3 Moustache, eyebrows and walk
1.4 Personal life
1.5 You Bet Your Life
1.6 Later years
1.7 Death
2 Legacy
2.1 Quotations about Groucho Marx
3 Solo filmography
3.1 Features
3.2 Short subjects
4 References
5 Further reading
6 External links

GM at Wikipedia


Arthur Marx (previously Adolph Marx), known as Harpo Marx (November 23, 1888 – September 28, 1964), was the second-born of the Marx Brothers and a unique comic performer whose style was influenced by clown and pantomime traditions. He was well known by his trademarks: he wore a curly reddish wig, he never talked during performances (although he often blew a horn or whistled to communicate), he frequently used props (such as a walking stick with a built-in bulb horn), and he played the harp.

Contents
1 Early life and career
2 In film
3 In other media
4 Personal life
5 Death
6 Notes
7 Further reading
8 External links

HM at Wikipedia

James Thurber, 1894 - 1961

James Thurber on Wikipedia

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
Discussion in America means dissent.
Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.
I'm 65 and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics. But if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd only be 48. That's the trouble with us. We number everything. Take women, for example. I think they deserve to have more than twelve years between the ages of 28 and 40.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers
Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber at brainyquote.com

Bibliography--Incomplete - to be updated

Is Sex Necessary? or, Why You Feel The Way You Do (spoof of sexual psychology manuals, with E. B. White), 1929, 75th anniv. edition (2004) with foreword by John Updike, ISBN 0-06-073314-4
The Owl in the Attic and Other Perplexities, 1931
The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments, 1932
My Life and Hard Times, 1933 ISBN 0-06-093308-9
The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, 1935
Let Your Mind Alone! and Other More Or Less Inspirational Pieces, 1937
The Last Flower, 1939, re-issued 2007 ISBN 978-1-58729-620-8
The Male Animal (stage play), 1939 (with Elliot Nugent)
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated, 1940 ISBN 0-06-090999-4
My World--and Welcome To It, 1942 ISBN 0-15-662344-7
Many Moons, (children) 1943
Men, Women, and Dogs, 1943
The Great Quillow, (children) 1944
The Thurber Carnival (anthology), 1945, ISBN 0-06-093287-2
The White Deer, (children) 1945
The Beast in Me and Other Animals, 1948 ISBN 0-15-610850-X
The 13 Clocks, (children) 1950
The Thurber Album, 1952
Thurber Country, 1953
Thurber's Dogs, 1955
Further Fables For Our Time, 1956
The Wonderful O, (children) 1957
Alarms and Diversions (anthology), 1957
The Years With Ross, 1959 ISBN 0-06-095971-1
A Thurber Carnival (stage play), 1960
Lanterns and Lances, 1961

Posthumous Collections:

Credos and Curios, 1962
Thurber & Company, 1966 (ed. Helen W. Thurber)
Selected Letters of James Thurber, 1981 (ed. Helen W. Thurber & Edward Weeks)
Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself, 1989 (ed. Michael J. Rosen)
Thurber On Crime, 1991 (ed. Robert Lopresti)
People Have More Fun Than Anybody: A Centennial Celebration of Drawings and Writings by James Thurber, 1994 (ed. Michael J. Rosen)
James Thurber: Writings and Drawings, 1996, (ed. Garrison Keillor), Library of America, ISBN 978-1-88301122-2
The Dog Department: James Thurber on Hounds, Scotties, and Talking Poodles, 2001 (ed. Michael J. Rosen)
The Thurber Letters, 2002 (ed. Harrison Kinney, with Rosemary A. Thurber)

(Wikipedia)


Time Magazine, July 9, 1951 From: "Priceless Gift of Laughter"
Slow Fade. Thurber is not totally blind. At the age of six, he lost his left eye when one of his brothers accidentally shot him with an arrow. For about the next 40 years, his right eye did double duty, then it failed him; ten years ago, Thurber underwent five extremely painful operations on it for cataract and trachoma. The eye has since had one-eighth vision, not enough for a 56-year-old writer to get himself around with safety. The shins of the long, gangling (6 ft. 1½ in., 154 Ibs.) Thurber bear a mass of scars from collisions with coffee tables.

Before his sight began to go, Thurber could punch a typewriter at a brisk pace. Never having learned the touch system, however, he is now forced to scrawl with soft pencils on sheets of bright yellow paper, getting about 20 words to a sheet, words which he cannot see, although he peers at them through a thick goggle. After he has finished the first draft of a piece, it is read back to him, and he makes oral revisions sentence by sentence. Thurber always was a relentless reviser (he rewrote The White Deer 25 times) so that his composition has become slow and painful. Nevertheless, in the past ten years he has written and published more than he did in the previous ten.

After a lapse of several years, during which he did not draw at all, Thurber is drawing again (see cover). He works with chalk on black paper, preferably just at sundown on clear days. About the porch of his Connecticut home, where he has his drawing board set up, drawings are stacked along with stove wood.

On hot days when there is a lot of glare, Thurber sometimes sees a face that looks to him like Herbert Hoover's; at other times, there appears what might be the George Washington Bridge flapping in the wind. Thurber is never bitter about his blindness, nor self-pitying, nor "saintly." Often he discusses it in a completely detached manner; now & then he uses it for little jokes. "I bet I can think up a cornier title for my memoirs than you can," he challenged a friend. "How about Long Time No See?"

Minnesota's senator lightens her load with humor

By HENRY C. JACKSON – 2 days ago (041809)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Amy Klobuchar's savvy sense of humor has done more than win legislative victories during her two years in the Senate. It's also put some gloss on what has been an odd predicament both for her and the state of Minnesota.

Klobuchar, a Democrat, has now served more than 100 days as the state's only senator, courtesy of the protracted recount fight between former Republican Sen. Norm Coleman and Democrat Al Franken. She reacts to the situation with a blend of wit and lament, joking about putting a loft in her office for additional interns to handle a workload that increased so much she had to install extra phone lines.

"These aren't just people calling saying, 'Vote this way, vote that way,'" Klobuchar said. "We have people with veterans problems, people with passport problems — they need help. Last year I think we saved 17 brides' honeymoons and lost one, so there's work to do."

As for her own workload: "I obviously have a lot more calls and a lot more meetings."

To be sure, being the only senator from the Land of 10,000 Lakes has its perks. In February, Klobuchar wowed the Washington Press Club's congressional dinner by snapping off one-liners at the expense of Vice President Joe Biden, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Rep. Barney Frank, the gay Massachusetts Democrat. For the occasion, she tweaked a regular yarn about raising campaign cash from ex-boyfriends.

"I may have the record in the Senate," she quipped, "but in the House that record is held by Barney Frank."

Klobuchar's fellow senators say her brand of wit is an asset.

"I can tell you, she's got a pretty sharp whip," said Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., who calls Klobuchar a friend and has worked with her on energy issues.

"Her self-deprecating humor allows her to put people at ease around her. They're comfortable with her," said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. "And then she buzzes right past them with her intellect."

Klobuchar attributes her calm approach to seeing her family every day. Her husband, who is an active participant in the Senate spouses' club, and teenage daughter moved to northern Virginia after Klobuchar won her Senate seat in 2006. She says their presence gives her needed balance.

"That's probably why I've been able to do the single-senator thing, is by juggling," Klobuchar said. "By being here with that different background."

Klobuchar has been careful to stay out of the contentious fight between Franken and Coleman. A special three-judge panel in Minnesota recently declared Franken the leading vote-getter, but Coleman has vowed to fight on with an appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court and a possible appeal in federal court.

Klobuchar says she is focused on her work and helping to implement President Barack Obama's agenda. This year, she picked up a new assignment, joining the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"I think this is a time for courage. We're going to take some votes where there aren't going to be parades when I go home," she said. "The stimulus package, you know, people aren't really fans of that. Some of the war votes. ... I think we're going to have some tough decisions."

Carrying the Obama agenda in the Senate is a natural transition. Some of Klobuchar's earliest forays into national politics came when she hit the hustings for Obama in her home state during the Republican National Convention.

Stepping out in St. Paul took some coaxing from an unusual source. Vin Weber, a former GOP congressman from Minnesota, made her see it was her time to shine, she said.

"I said, 'What am I going to do during the convention? Should I maybe just stay for the opening day and then go around the state?'" Klobuchar recalled. "Vin said, 'No. You're going to be there every day. This is an opportunity.'"

Her friend McCaskill was glad to see it. As an early endorser of Obama in the primary, McCaskill tried to push Klobuchar to endorse early on but found she was making little headway. "Her endorsement was late," McCaskill said bluntly.

Though stymied, McCaskill saw it as a testament to another attribute she admires. "Nobody is ever going to get her to do anything until her mind's made up," McCaskill said.

Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

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Notice new links--"Clean Jokes" and "See Humor Pix at Photobucket.com" to the right in the link list
Caution: Photobucket has adult or obscene or inappropriate pix. But it also has funny pix that aren't warped.
It is in the eyes of the perceiver.

Amy Poehler, 1971 -

Amy Poehler as "Andy's Little Sister" on Conan O'Bryant's show, several segments, great stuff--









Amy Poehler 0n Wikipedia

Amy Poehler Filmography on Wikipedia

Amy Poehler at brainyquote.com

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?
(BQ.com)

Amy Poehler at TV.com

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

(on her life outside her work): All we do is watch The Wire and go out to dinner with our friends. I wish I could tell you that we had these crazy comedy competitions of hilariousness, but at the end of the day, all I want is a good cry and an hourlong drama.

(on her new film Blades of Glory): It was really fun to play the bad guy because as a woman sometimes you don't get to do that. You have to be nice.


"Baby Mama"(film) at blip.tv















Amy Proehler and Tina Fey in "Baby Mama" trailer--