This is one I meant to do back when I was doing my “TV Guide Cover” series… Art Carney, Joyce Randolph, Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows, the cast of the immortal TV sitcom “The Honeymooners”. I did a SotW years ago of just Gleason, but the whole cast needed doing. READ MORE
Here’s one more classic comedian sketch, Mr. Warmth himself, Don Rickles! READ MORE
I did this one for my newsletter The Ink Stained Wretch today, which if you are not subscribed to yet what are you waiting for?!? I usually wait a week to post my the sketch that debuts in the newsletter on my blog and socials, but this needed to be posted right away. RIP Robert Redford. READ MORE
HEY LAAAAAADY! Another in the classic comedians series… Jerry Lewis! READ MORE
Back in the 1970-80s a lot of TV sitcoms revolved around a single set with a cast of quirky, interesting characters referred to as an “ensemble” cast. An ensemble cast meant there was no single main character the show concentrated on, but rather all the cast members had roughly equal importance and screen time. The sitcom “Taxi” was one of my favorites of those types of shows. It was full of talented actors that would go on to become big name entertainers like Danny DeVito, Judd Hirsch, Christopher Lloyd, Marilu Henner, Jeff Conaway, Tony Danza, etc. Among the characters was a quiet, wide-eyed immigrant mechanic… READ MORE
Here’s another in our series of classic comedians, the incomparable Carol Burnett! READ MORE
When it comes to my “Sketch o’the Week” I try not to do the same person more than once. There have been a few exceptions to this, mostly doing actors in different movie roles where they have a very different “presence” and therefore it’s a challenge to capture and exaggerate the differences. That said sometimes I just have to draw someone again, and as I am just starting my “Classic Comedians” series I cannot resist drawing the late, vey great Richard Pryor again. Here’s one I did a few years ago: READ MORE
We have to pause our “Classic Comedians” series to do a tribute caricature to the recently passed “Godfather of Heavy Metal”, Ozzy Osbourne! I was a serious metalhead in high school. In fact I was once briefly suspended from La Crescent High after an air band competition in which our band, “Eddie and the Back Doors” hid and ignited banned pyrotechnics during our set, scorching the ceiling of the cafeteria, filling the place with smoke, and causing the fire department to be called in. Our roadie Rob was a little overzealous with the flash powder. He graduated valedictorian of our class, by the way. The… READ MORE
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