Question: In the movie Beetlejuice, what game does Beetlejuice play with Lydia to get her to guess his name?
Last Question: What was the name of the fundraising event that debuted on March 29, 1986 whose mission is to raise funds to help the homeless, and was hosted by Robin Williams, Billy Crystal, and Whoopi Goldberg?
Answer: Comic Relief
Question: Representing the “Finicky Party,” what ran for president for the first time in 1988?
Last Question: What comic featured Ron Jeremy, Dweezil Zappa and Jessica Hahn in his video spoof of Wild Thing?
Answer: Sam Kinison
[Bill Cosby has called Eddie to complain about bad language in Eddie’s act]
Eddie Murphy: Now I can’t have no ‘curse’ show, I mean I gotta throw in a few jokes in between the curses, I can’t come out and go “Hello! Filth flar’n filth, motherfucker, dick, pussy, snot, and shit. Good night! Suck my dick!”
Eddie Murphy: Raw was released in theaters on this day 32 years ago (December 18, 1987)
Happy 64th birthday to Steven Wright!!!
– I’m going to get a tattoo over my whole body of me but taller.
– I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. So I said, “Got any shoes you’re not using?”
– What’s another word for Thesaurus?
– I got a garage door opener. It can’t close. Just open.
– I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.
– When I turned two I was really anxious, because I’d doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I’m six I’ll be ninety.
Eddie Murphy: There’s something about the icecream truck that makes kids lose it. And they can hear that shit from ten blocks away. They don’t hear their mothers calling but they hear that motherfucking icecream truck.
Eddie Murphy: Icecream man always drove extra blocks away. And I know he’s seen us and shit, but I think he just be in the car with his friends and say:
[imitating the ice cream man] Watch me how fast I make these motherfuckers run.
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Eddie Murphy: Ice Cream man always drove extra blocks away. And I know he’s seen us and shit, but I think he just be in the car with his friends and say:
Eddie Murphy: [imitating the ice cream man] Watch me how fast I make these motherfuckers run.
35 years ago today (August 30, 1983), Eddie Murphy: Delirious premiered on HBO.
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You want to help world hunger? Stop sending them food. Don’t send them another bite, send them U-Hauls. Send them a guy that says, “You know, we’ve been coming here giving you food for about 35 years now and we were driving through the desert, and we realized there wouldn’t BE world hunger if you people would live where the FOOD IS! YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING’S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it’s gonna be 100 years from now? IT’S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT! We have deserts in America, we just don’t LIVE in them, assholes!”
Follow @returntothe80s– In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
– Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.
– Russian men have a saying: “Women are like buses…” That’s it.
– Many people are surprised to hear that we have comedians in Russia, but they are there. They are dead, but they are there.
Happy 67th birthday to Yakov Smirnoff!!!
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Steven Wright is a unique comedian. He tends to give one-liners – one right after another – that are unconnected. They are often hilarious.
Wright, grew up in Burlington, Massachusetts, and began performing stand-up comedy in 1979 at the Boston comedy club The Comedy Connection.
In 1982, an executive producer of The Tonight Show saw Steven Wright perform at a comedy club in Cambridge. The producer booked him. Wright impressed Johnny Carson so much that he was brought back less than a week later. Here is the performance:
Here is more classic Steven Wright:
Steven Wright still performs today, and has his own web site.
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