Tag: comedy

• RIP Tim Conway

  

  RIP to one of the funniest. Period. Some of his skits with Harvey Korman on the The Carol Burnett Show were so funny, I often couldn’t see for five minutes or so afterwards because I was laughing so hard that I was crying. Thanks so much for the laughs. We need more comedians like you…

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  14 May 2019

  comedy, Fiction, funny, history

  comedy, history, movies, television

• The Emperor of Ice Cream and My Favorite Stephen King’s Books  – North of the Bayou

  

  Here is something I wrote on my fiction blog (see below) a couple of years ago. I’m gonna have to update my list soon. Enjoy. Favorite Stephen King book? A friend mine asked me to rank my top 5 about a month ago. Here’s my list: In my expert opinion……haha 10. Hearts in Atlantis 9.…

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  6 Jan 2019

  Fiction, history

  1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, alcohol, books, comedy, comics, Disco, drugs, evil monkeys, fiction, food, funny stories, Halloween, history, Hollywood, kids, medicine, movies, new york, politics, song, space, stephen king, television

• SI Vault: A new twist on Casey at the Bat. By Frank Deford | SI.com

  From the SI Vault: On the 100th anniversary of Casey at the Bat, Frank Deford imagined what really might have happened in the days before and after Ernest L. Thayer’s famous 1888 baseball poem. — Read on www.si.com/mlb/2015/06/02/casey-bat-mudville-frank-deford

  Joe Thompson, PhD

  24 Aug 2018

  history

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