@17:

I didn't realise that Northern California was closed now.

Curse you, Gov. Schwartsenagger!!

For the record, Mequon is not Milwaukee. Mequon is the far, far, white, white northern suburbs.

If you actually get into Milwaukee, I'll buy you a beer.

Also - it's your book and your site. Plug away. I can skip an article, no sweat.

@21,24,29:

Really?

This sketch (whichevah version) always makes me giggle like crazy & ups my mood in nothing flat.

Maybe 'cuz I first was familiarized to Kovacs @4-5 years old. My father introduced me to his work via a retrospective on PBS

(I love my Pop - he gave me an education in what Funny is. Suprisingly, it turns out comedy existed before SNL. Strange but true)

The point, I suppose, is that the Nairobi Trio sketch is simply silly. It runs on it's own internal logic and doesn't try to be ironic or cooly detatched.

(By the way, I'm in my mid-30's, to answer the general query)

He's standing like a little Rory Calhoun...

(Oh, @20 - Michigan J Frog)

Just plugging my own stuff here...

My friends & I created & performed NOTLD as a puppet show last Halloween for a horror convention here in Brew City.

Thought y'all might wanna see it.

Here's part 1 on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YZnvi6N-5M