Need More Cowbell?
Submitted by Boys and Schools Blog
So, this is admittedly completely off-topic, but I found an excellent time-waster today in the form of Nerve and IFC’s list of the 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches of All Time. Alas, not all of the entries have working links, but enough of them work to put a serious dent in your afternoon. I could try to drag this back on-topic by discussing Christopher Hitchens’ work about men and comedy (short version: men are better at comedy than women), but not only do I not want to touch that claim with a ten-meter cattle prod, but I’m not entirely sure that Hitchens himself isn’t being a tad controversial purely for the sake of controversy there. Of course, I did once write an essay for a college scholarship about why there were so few great female lead guitar players. (Yes, I had forgotten about Heart. No, I did not forget about Courtney Love or Lita Ford.) But that only because that kind of pop culture riffing is a lot of fun to do–not because I think there’s any great insight to be found there about the battle of the sexes.
