My mother always said, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, then I want to hear it.” No, she didn’t say that. But I do.
My friend Ed is stunted. He has lived his life without watching important, life-changing movies. Movies such as “Rear Window,” “Napoleon Dynamite” “Blair Witch Project,” “Seven,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” anything Bond, anything with Clint Eastwood, any horror movie, etc. What stopped me in mid sentence tonight was his revelation that he has not seen “Tommy Boy.” Oh the shame.
To harass him further, I made him go through AFI’s list of the top 100 movies. Ed had not seen 38 of the first 50, so I had to stop. He was suitably heckled by the rest of the people over for Human Trish’s birthday, yet claims he would do better with the bottom 50. Sure, Ed.
Observe and report 
And we were just talking about the rare, cinematic genius of Tommy Boy on Friday!!!! People who have not seen that movie are simply, in my opinion, un-American. Um, is that word hyphenated?
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I completely agree with Aimee. I feel that a lot of people are in the dark when it comes to Chris Farley’s comedic genius. Intellectuals scoff at physical comedy, but I think it’s great. I mean, “Fat guy in a little coat”. . . come on!
That’s why I’ve started a video lecture series on my blog entitled SNL 101. I want to teach America (well maybe just my friends) that Saturday Night Live was once great.
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