Lunedi Lunacy

Its a day late but to celebrate the 2052 anniversary of the Assassination of Julius Caesar here's a classic Wayne and Shuster skit:


Poor Sylvia Lennick was a well-known actress in Toronto when I was growing up, but sadly she was pursued by the phrase: Don't go Julie I said.

16 marzo - Sant'Ilario di Aquileia

Lunedi Lunacy

Hey its spring break time and where else can a guy go but Mexico for fun, sun, babes and .....


I'm always amazed by Gavin Crawford's versatility - whither its last week's Gunther on Computer Corner, today's geeky teen reporter Mark Jackson or another of the many characters he plays on This Hour Has 22 Minutes he's always able to hit my funny bone.

I apologize to my Canadian friends, it appears that CBC has restricted broadcasting of this clip within Canada. Strangely enough I can't see any of the videos on their website here in Italy. Not sure what the logic behind it all is, but hey we're talking the CBC so .....

09 marzo - Santa Caterina da Bologna

Lunedi Lunacy

Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster were part of anyone in English Canada's radio and television schedule between the 1940s and the 1980's. They were fixtures, like Hockey Night in Canada or Juliette or the Plouffe Family. They were also favorites on the Ed Sullivan Show and appeared 67 times on old Stoneface's variety programme.

Their comedy was literate, often bawdy but never vulgar - and they assumed that their audience was intelligent and if they ever cursed it was only during rehearsals.

This sketch was a perennial - this particular version was made in 1980, long before the days of discount airlines. A bit prophetic I would say.





I enjoy the fact that the first sequence was filmed at my first workplace with the airlines - the long gone Terminal 1 at Toronto International Airport. Hell when I worked there it was the only terminal and airplanes still had propellers and you walked outside to board. I guess you do that now but its called commuter airlines.

02 febbraio - Candelora

Lunedi Lunacy

Someone we know recently decided to clean up his Facebook Friends list - he recieved a strongly worded e-mail from someone who had been removed. They were upset that he no longer wanted to be their "friend." He was totally flummoxed by the reaction - the offended party was a cousin of someone he went to school with 20 years before.





"I poked you but you didn't poke back!!"

13 ottobre - San Teofilo di Antiochia

Lunedi Lunacy

Now that spring has sprung and the grass has rise the Baseball season and the Shakespeare Festival season are both in full swing. Here's a tribute to those two great harbingers of spring.



I remember this sketch from a Wayne and Shuster radio show in the early '50s; this version in 1958 would have been from one of their early CBC TV shows. They were funny at a time when funny did not mean resorting to swearing and their comedy always assumed that the audience was literate and knowing.

From one of their classic sketches Rinse the Blood Off My Toga (The assassination of Julius Caesar as written by Micky Spillane.):

Detective (In a bar in ancient Rome): I'll have a martinus!

Bartender: Don't you mean a martini?

Detective: If I wanted two I'd ask for them!

As a grade 9 Latin student that one killed me.

9 giugno - Santa Columba