New Year’s Day is the most important day of the year.Unlike religious holidays, it is universally celebrated and universally enjoyed.New Year’s Day requires no special decorations (confetti is nice, but not necessary); has no special set of colors (unlike the red and green of Christmas), is non-denominational and completely international. It wraps the globe like …
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EVERYBODY GETS THE CHRISTMAS BLUES
Rickie Lee Jones Sets Us Straight
AARP Sponsors The Rolling Stones
The World Changes when we’re not paying attention. In 2024, the Rolling Stones, the world’s greatest “rock & roll band”, will make another American tour. The sponsors for this one: the American Association of Retired People (AARP). Didn’t see that one coming. The Stones are a different (and older) band now, dealing with mortality just …
Re-Set: 2025
Christmas Time for the Jews
Paying Attention (Special Holiday Edition):Another in our special series of Saturday Night Live Holiday videos. This one is another classic, “Christmas Time for the Jews”, a stop-motion video that details all the things that Jews can do while the Christians are home celebrating Christmas. It’s a very funny way of looking at the biggest holiday in …
The Bob Hope Christmas Special: 1969
The SNL Christmas Classics: Mr. Robinson’s Neighborhood
Why Work? It's Christmas.
Paying Attention: We all know that things wind down at the end of the year (an investment banking friend once said that if “your deal isn’t signed and scheduled for closing before Thanksgiving, you’re going to have start all over in January, because it’s not getting done before the end of the year”) and in …
Schweddy Balls
Paying Attention (Special Holiday Edition) Number two in great SNL Christmas videos is one of the most famous (perhaps THE most famous) SNL holiday sketches, the NPR parody featuring Alec Baldwin, Anna Gasteyer and Molly Shannon as hosts and guest on a mid-west Christmas time cooking show. First broadcast in 1998, it was classic the instant …