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The Tuesday This-or-That

1. Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton? Buster Keaton. I always thought silent films were classics just because they were old and they were the predecessor to sound films. But I saw The General in an art-house cinema when I was in Grenoble and I found myself laughing out loud. Plus, you gotta love him in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and In the Good Old Summertime (which is vastly superior to the other movies based on the same play).

2. Laurel & Hardy or Abbott & Costello? Don't care. Neither are particularly funny.

3. Marx Brothers or Three Stooges? Hmmm. As Luc in French Kiss would say, "Tough decision!" On one hand, we have the Marx Brothers, comic geniuses, who made dozens of movies that make me laugh and who I would recommend to anyone. On the other hand, we have the Three Stooges, who are in no way, shape, or form, humorous.

4. David Letterman or Jay Leno? Dave!

5. "Saturday Night Live" or "Mad TV"? I try to watch SNL every week. I think I've seen parts of Mad TV twice.

6. Adam Sandler ("Mr. Deeds") or Mike Myers ("Austin Powers")? First of all, I have no desire to see Mr Deeds because it's a bad remake of a movie I really didn't like in the first place. While I have nothing against Adam Sandler, I think Mike Myers is adorable, so he gets my vote.

7. Jerry Seinfeld or Ray Romano ("Everybody Loves Raymond")? Ray, just because Jerry is obnoxious.

8. George Carlin or Bill Cosby? "You kids, with your hippin' and your hoppin' and your bippin' and your boppin'. Ya don't know about the jazz music. Well jazz is like the Jell-O Pudding Pops, no, it's like the Kodak film..."

9. "Monty Python's Flying Circus" or "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"? No one of my generation could be expected to have seen Laugh-In, but from what I've seen of the parodies, it looks pretty stupid. Therefore, "The room is full of milkmen... some of whom... are very old."

10. Gone but not forgotten...John Belushi or Chris Farley? Another tough decision... between two unfunny fat men whose humor dealt with such varied topics as... being an unfunny fat man. We'll go with Belushi, because The Blues Brothers, while not funny, has Carrie Fisher in it.

srah - Tuesday, 30 July 2002 - 8:55 AM
Tags: buster keaton, memes, movies, tuesday this-or-that

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