Amazon’s Jeff Bezos bought Whole Foods for almost $14 billion. And that price includes all of their grapes and kale.



Amazon’s Jeff Bezos bought Whole Foods for almost $14 billion. For $14 bil., Whole Foods is going to throw in an entire stalk of celery.



A Kansas man who robbed a bank so he could go to jail to get away from his wife, was sentenced to six months house arrest. Happy Father’s Day. 

An 18-year-old kicker, Becca Longo, could be the first woman to play in the NFL. She may start with the Cleveland Browns and then work up to the NFL.

The aptly named-Becca Longo's kicking is doing better than the other woman kicker, Susie Wideright. 




The Russians say they have killed an ISIS leader in Iraq. There was an awkward moment when Donald Trump blurted out, “See?That’s why I colluded with them.” 



A Kansas man who robbed a bank so he could go to jail to get away from his wife, was sentenced to six months house arrest. The judge was then charged with being a huge smart ass.


The Russians say they have killed an ISIS leader in Iraq. Apparently they accidentally mistook him for a political opponent of Putin’s. 



The jury in the Bill Cosby trial is deadlocked. Apparently they cannot decide if he is guilty or guilty as hell.



The Russians say they have killed an ISIS leader in Iraq.   



It is the one-year anniversary of the opening of Bunyadi, the first naked restaurant in London. It closed three months later. The cause? Too many hot soup spills.


Since you asked:

How hard is comedy? 

University of Virginia graduate with a degree in drama, nine-time-Emmy-winner, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor winner and national treasure, Tina Fey, was 29, working for minimum wage as a receptionist at the Evanston YMCA while fighting for stage time for no pay at “Second City” when Lorne Michaels hired her for “Saturday Night Live.”

And that was considered by all, including Fey, an insanely lucky break. 

Prior to that life-changer, Tina’s biggest break was making a “Second City” improv road tour that traveled and slept in a van and performed for donations. Mostly at old folks homes. Their rule was, if there were less people in the audience than in their troupe, they did not have to go on.


You can count the number of comedians who have made it big without struggling hard at least ten years on one hand. And that hand would include neither Mark Twain winners Steve Martin, Bill Cosby, David Letterman, Jay Leno nor Richard Pryor. 

Nor Mark Twain, for that matter.

Tina Fey said, in one month at “SNL,” she went from thinking, “Oh my god, I am in a meeting with the great Lorne Michaels who offered a check to the Beatles,” to, “If that chardonnay-swilling Canadian bastard keeps me late again tonight I am going to strangle him with his cashmere sweater.” 

Nobody is more brilliant or more deserving of success than Tina Fey, but luck is a factor. I'm willing to bet Tina Fey would readily admit - as would many "SNL" alums - if not for her break from Lorne Michaels, we might not know who she is.

To take it one step further: anyone who thinks there is a clear and fair connection in comedy between fame and talent, I have two words: Tom Arnold. Two more: Pauly Shore. Two more: Jim Belushi.

As the poet Thomas Gray said,

"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen."

Just call me a comedy writing flower, I don't mind...