At this year’s New England Pumpkin Growers Weigh-Off in Rhode Island, a boulder-sized monster pumpkin weighing in at more than 1,600 pounds took the top prize. Gourd almighty!
After 33 years of complaining about the foibles of everyday life, loveable curmudgeon Andy Rooney is saying goodbye to the long-running CBS primetime newsmagazine ’60 Minutes’ this weekend.
Rooney’s retirement got us thinking: Have you ever noticed how many funny people do Andy Rooney impressions?
Many television networks will no longer air the most devastating moments of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, lest it upset the families of the thousands of people who lost their lives that day.
But Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive feels that that footage is essential as a “resource for scholars, journalists, and the public,” and has archived 3,000 hours of it, along with timelines and scholarly analysis.
Comedian Jerry Lewis is no longer serving as the Muscular Dystrophy Association's national chairman, and he won't be appearing on this year's Labor Day telethon. Lewis, who is 85 years old, has been the MDA's national chairman since the early 1950s, and he has hosted the MDA Labor Day telethon since 1966.
On Monday night’s ‘Daily Show,’ host Jon Stewart admonished Congress and compared the constantly-changing debt ceiling deadline to a Broadway opening, saying “The only catastrophe that has moved its date this often is ‘Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark.’
He then observed that despite a steady stream of meetings about the debt crisis, Republicans and Democrats have accomplished little other than seemingly swapping political positions with their opponents. “Both sides switched, everybody caved, and no one agreed,” he quipped.
