In a Salon.com article this week, Steve Almond accused Comedy Central of having “squandered Jon Stewart’s legacy” by appointing South African comedian Trevor Noah as host, over the then-incumbent Samantha Bee.
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Roxanne Tellier – It Is To Laugh!
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags #allLifeMatters, 9/11, ABC, Bill de Blasio. Comedy Central, Bill Maher, Bob Segarini, Canadian, Comedy, Conan O’Brien, DBAWIS, Full Frontal, HBO, income inequality.free speech., James Corden, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Jon Batiste, Jon Stewart, Larry Wilmore, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, late night formula, Laughter, Monty Python, New York, Peaches, Politically Incorrect, racism, Real Time with Bill Maher, Roxanne Tellier, Salon, Samantha Bee, Seth Meyers, South African, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show. political junkie, The Nightly, The Tonight Show, titans of late night, Trevor Noah, Vanity Fair on March 6, 2016 by segariniDarrell Vickers – Thicke of the Night Part III – Dark Fantasy
Posted in Opinion with tags Alan Thicke, Darrell Vickers, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Ernie DeMassa, Fantasy, Fred Silverman, Gilbert Gottfried, Johnny Carson, Richard Belzer, segarini, Television, The Tonight Show, Thicke of the Night, Todd Thicke on March 2, 2015 by segarini
Very few enterprises begin their days with as much jocundity and hubris as Thicke of the Night at its inchoation. Fred Silverman’s latest blockbuster proclaimed itself to be a new and bold spring morning that would lead moribund late-night entertainment out of its dark and dreary winter. The talk show format had become stale and uninteresting. A pallid and tiresome visitor in the sexless bedrooms of America.
JAIMIE VERNON – OH! CANADA? THE OTHER SONGS OF MY PEOPLE
Posted in Opinion with tags 54.40, alice cooper, April Wine, Birthday, Bob Dylan, Bob Segarini, Buffy Sainte Marie, Canada Day, Canadian Music, Chicago, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Eddie Schwartz, folk movement, Frank Sinatra, Gordon Peterson, Greenwich Village, Guess Who, Hootie & The Blowfish, Hudson's Bay, I Go Blind, Ian & Sylia Tyson, Ian Thomas, Indio, Jaimie Vernon, Joe Cocker, Joni Mitchell, Manfred Mann, Marc Jordan, My Way, Neil Young, Paul Anka, protest songs, Rhythm of My Heart. Tillsonburg, Rod Stewart, Rolf Kempf, Santana, The Tonight Show, Universal Soldier, Yorkville on June 28, 2014 by segarini
Tuesday marks the 147th birthday of this great Dominion known as Canada. Though we’re not quite as old as our brother to the south, our European lineage dates back to May 2, 1670 when the Dread Pirate Ernie Hudson got his ship stranded in the northern waters of the arctic looking for a direct passage to Santa’s Workshop. He and the crew survived on nothing but Her Queen’s Own Biscuits, Tea 
Candles and striped blankets knitted from the wool of extinct mammoths. The native population had already been here 11,000 years longer and resented the idea that you now had to trade 10 beaver pelts to get a birch bark canoe. We’ve come a long way since then but still pride ourselves on our cultural diversity, beavers, hockey and fornicating while watching hockey. Oh, and we seem to be able to write a mean ditty (not “diddy” you internet meme idiots).
Segarini: Don't Believe a Word I Say 