Steve Martin has been one of Hollywood’s incredibly influential actors ever considering that his career took off on TV in the late 1960s. Over the past 40 years, Martin has hosted the Academy Awards three times and Saturday Night Live fifteen times. He’s hosted SNL so a lot of times, that Universal Studios even released [...]
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Spaceballs
Oct 31
Mel Brooks’s 1987 parody of the Star Wars trilogy is a jumble of jokes rather than a comic feature, and, predictably, some of those jokes work better than others. The cast, including Brooks in two roles, more or less mimics the principal characters from George Lucas’s famous story line, and the director certainly gets a [...]
Weird Al does Green Day to the words of “Canadian Idiot.” This is a very entertaining video using clips from the movies Canadian Bacon and Strange Brew – two classic hoser movies that will really help you Americans understand the Canuck mindset. As: a fan of Weird Al Yankovic a Canadian, and a fan of [...]