I've been a fan since I first heard her in the 1950s. Along with Billie Holiday and Carmen McRae they are the most unique female voices in Jazz. Have you listened to Mary Stallings Live at the Village Vanguard. Great music, great voice and phrasing, especially the ballad, Sunday Kind of Love.
Carmen McCrae and Betty Carter duets! A musician friend gave us that tape (yes, a tape:) about 30 years ago.
Thank you for the tip on Mary Stallings “Sunday Kind of Love” We’re listening to her right now. Fantastic! Piano player is wild! I think she used to do shows at Smoke, a jazz club in our old neighborhood.
Another friend was a big fan of “Queenie”, Dinah Washington. Love her too. We don’t listen to contemporary pop music at all. No need-or desire!
Mia Farrow cult Christmas movie, “Reckless”. In the first few minutes of the film, she and her husband (who has just put out a hit on her), are watching the news on TV. He begins to sob. Unwittingly, she tells him, “it’s the news! Come on! It’s not real!”, and turns it off. Which is what I’m inclined to do until 2025.
It only turns up on YouTube, pirated, as the movie is out of print. It’s kooky. I watched it when it first came out, never found it again until now. Definitely a cult classic. There are people who love it, despite the terrible reviews. You may either love it or hate it!
If you watch it Celia, will love to hear what you think. I haven’t watched it since the late ‘90’s. Watched the first few minutes of it yesterday to see if it was indeed the film I’d been searching for. It’s not for everyone, but that line about the news (back then even!) cracked me up.
Die hard IS a Christmas Movie. So is While you were sleeping, Steel Magnolias and my favorite, The Ref, with Dennis Leary. He puts the fun back in dysfunctional.
The Christmas scene in Gremlins is the all time best send up of how empty and bleak Christmas has become since we've allowed the commercialization of this beautiful early winter celebration of the solstice and the light that came into our world with the birth of Jesus.
The Hallmark movie ones are so true. Sometimes when baking over long stretches I will have the channel on in the background, just because I never have to concentrate on the plot or even which movie is playing - I can pick any of them up at any point to watch for a couple of minutes and know exactly where the story is.
An ex friend said the only funny thing i ever heard out of her stupid dumb mouth-- her son had just been caught stealing candy at Walmart and now the annual family Christmas movie viewing had been ruined and she was bummed they wouldn't be able to watch Brokeback Mountain together.
I know it wasn’t originally intended to be a Christmas movie, but I do watch It’s a wonderful Life every year. I also love A Christmas Story because it reminds me of my dad. I think it was his favorite Christmas movie.
It’s a great movie but I think my favorite part is when Ralphie gets his friend in trouble for teaching him the F-word when he knows he heard it from his dad. 😂😂
One of my colleagues has a small version of the lamp in his office. In Louisiana.
Jean Shepherd was a great comic writer. All his stuff is wonderful. First thing I read by him was in Playboy (I think) back in the '60s. It was The Grandstand Passion Play Of Delbert And The Bumpus Hounds. Laugh out loud funny. He was at his best writing about his home town in Indiana, especially about Depression years.
Memes I agree with! The old Grinch is superior! Die Hard is NOT an Xmas movie! Description of Rudolph as “disables led etc” LMFAO! Love the Hallmark movies (a cynic is a bitter sentimentalist). Wore a National Lampoon Christmas Vacation tie to court yesterday I go for the old school animated cartoon or dark comedies. And I made a PoetKen Top Ten Least Favoitre Christmas Songs list (with comments) I could submit for a guest post
Christmas Vacation is my favorite! Randy Quaid's character wearing a black turtleneck dickey under his white sweater, makes me laugh hysterically, every year! And I have not been able to eat a jello mold without seeing it as cat food.
That may be the darkest collection of jokes I've seen. Doesn't help that I'd never seen most of the antecedent movies. And Die Hard??? OTOH Frosty/Olaf, though dark-adjacent, was a coffee-out-the-noser.
I can’t stop laughing at the Hans Gruber one….. Thanks, Celia!😃
I think that is my favorite one!
They brought a smile to my face.
In haste -- my weekly offering https://michellestyles.substack.com/p/this-is-northumberland-calling-131224/
Funny short comparing canceled Christmas carol to hit hip hop song with foul language........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCF_SWTiRCc
Funny short spoof on drug commercials........
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/eGhAlNnDDmY
Brilliant!
Those were hysterical! Thank you for sharing!
Baby It’s Cold Outside, great song! That comparison is hilarious. Thank you Rainbow!
Have you heard the version with Ray Charles and Betty Carter?
Yes! I think it may be my favorite. Love Betty Carter. Are you a fan?
I've been a fan since I first heard her in the 1950s. Along with Billie Holiday and Carmen McRae they are the most unique female voices in Jazz. Have you listened to Mary Stallings Live at the Village Vanguard. Great music, great voice and phrasing, especially the ballad, Sunday Kind of Love.
Carmen McCrae and Betty Carter duets! A musician friend gave us that tape (yes, a tape:) about 30 years ago.
Thank you for the tip on Mary Stallings “Sunday Kind of Love” We’re listening to her right now. Fantastic! Piano player is wild! I think she used to do shows at Smoke, a jazz club in our old neighborhood.
Another friend was a big fan of “Queenie”, Dinah Washington. Love her too. We don’t listen to contemporary pop music at all. No need-or desire!
Thanks again for the tip!
Then there's Johnny Hartman with John Coltrane, an album of ballads.
🤣🤣😂🤣
Those are hilarious! But the hip hop song...the fact that it is a chart-topper does indeed say a lot about our country, none of it good.
I believe it was NPR’s “song of the year” for 2020. Well, I guess it put the “N” in NPR…
Classic - awesome
Mia Farrow cult Christmas movie, “Reckless”. In the first few minutes of the film, she and her husband (who has just put out a hit on her), are watching the news on TV. He begins to sob. Unwittingly, she tells him, “it’s the news! Come on! It’s not real!”, and turns it off. Which is what I’m inclined to do until 2025.
Thanks for the tip of another movie to check out!!
It only turns up on YouTube, pirated, as the movie is out of print. It’s kooky. I watched it when it first came out, never found it again until now. Definitely a cult classic. There are people who love it, despite the terrible reviews. You may either love it or hate it!
A movie I've never heard of! Gotta look into that.
If you watch it Celia, will love to hear what you think. I haven’t watched it since the late ‘90’s. Watched the first few minutes of it yesterday to see if it was indeed the film I’d been searching for. It’s not for everyone, but that line about the news (back then even!) cracked me up.
Die hard IS a Christmas Movie. So is While you were sleeping, Steel Magnolias and my favorite, The Ref, with Dennis Leary. He puts the fun back in dysfunctional.
OK I'll be the Grinch.
The Christmas scene in Gremlins is the all time best send up of how empty and bleak Christmas has become since we've allowed the commercialization of this beautiful early winter celebration of the solstice and the light that came into our world with the birth of Jesus.
Hear, hear!
As always Bruce, perfectly said; Amen 🙏
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Claus.
Claus who?
Claus the damn door - it's snowing outside!
Sorry - the Grinch made me do it!
Welcome John …. You got me to smile & I surely needed a joke such as this!! You get a trophy 🏆.
This was awesome! Thank You!
I too wondered what the Home Alone father did. Their house was magnificent!
Favorite Christmas movies:
1. The Thin Man
2. Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special
I have always disliked the decor .... especially the wallpaper!
Oh, you'll like next Monday, then!
🤔
Patience!
I saw a meme that answers the question: He worked for Tony Soprano as Vin Makazian
Haha!
😂😂
The Hallmark movie ones are so true. Sometimes when baking over long stretches I will have the channel on in the background, just because I never have to concentrate on the plot or even which movie is playing - I can pick any of them up at any point to watch for a couple of minutes and know exactly where the story is.
You could probably take two of them and cut each in half, swap pieces and they'd make perfect sense.
I love laughing. That gingerbread house one. 😂
An ex friend said the only funny thing i ever heard out of her stupid dumb mouth-- her son had just been caught stealing candy at Walmart and now the annual family Christmas movie viewing had been ruined and she was bummed they wouldn't be able to watch Brokeback Mountain together.
*facepalm*
“Home for the Holidays” Family dysfunctional drama that is relatable to everyone at some point … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_for_the_Holidays_(1995_film)
I know it wasn’t originally intended to be a Christmas movie, but I do watch It’s a wonderful Life every year. I also love A Christmas Story because it reminds me of my dad. I think it was his favorite Christmas movie.
You’ll shoot yer eye out kid!
I love it. My daughter loves it. My husband hates it. So I guess I’ll watch it this Saturday when he’s playing tennis.
It’s a great movie but I think my favorite part is when Ralphie gets his friend in trouble for teaching him the F-word when he knows he heard it from his dad. 😂😂
As God is my witness, my mother actually did this to me when I said fudge. She said she knew I wasn’t talking about candy - just a euphemism !
I've seen A Christmas Story once (how could I not?), but it just didn't grab me, although it's very funny in parts, and the leg lamp is a classic.
The leg lamp….OMG, when he mispronounced Fragile and the wife corrects him. 😂
One of my colleagues has a small version of the lamp in his office. In Louisiana.
Jean Shepherd was a great comic writer. All his stuff is wonderful. First thing I read by him was in Playboy (I think) back in the '60s. It was The Grandstand Passion Play Of Delbert And The Bumpus Hounds. Laugh out loud funny. He was at his best writing about his home town in Indiana, especially about Depression years.
Memes I agree with! The old Grinch is superior! Die Hard is NOT an Xmas movie! Description of Rudolph as “disables led etc” LMFAO! Love the Hallmark movies (a cynic is a bitter sentimentalist). Wore a National Lampoon Christmas Vacation tie to court yesterday I go for the old school animated cartoon or dark comedies. And I made a PoetKen Top Ten Least Favoitre Christmas Songs list (with comments) I could submit for a guest post
Christmas Vacation is my favorite! Randy Quaid's character wearing a black turtleneck dickey under his white sweater, makes me laugh hysterically, every year! And I have not been able to eat a jello mold without seeing it as cat food.
Poor cat.
Die Hard IS a Christmas movie.
That may be the darkest collection of jokes I've seen. Doesn't help that I'd never seen most of the antecedent movies. And Die Hard??? OTOH Frosty/Olaf, though dark-adjacent, was a coffee-out-the-noser.