1999 Legacy: Best Comedy Album
Why Mel Brooks & Carl Reiner for The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000? Because the Grammys love a joke that’s been curing… Read More »1999 Legacy: Best Comedy Album
1999 Vintage: The Screwdriver 2.0
A guy orders a Screwdriver and asks for “more megabytes of orange juice.” Part of the 79 Bar Jokes: The 1999 “Party Like It’s 1999… Read More »1999 Vintage: The Screwdriver 2.0
1997 Classic: The “Batman & Robin” Nipple Controversy
Why were the costumes so weird? Because the summer movie made us all realize that even superheroes can have bad fashion days. Part of the… Read More »1997 Classic: The “Batman & Robin” Nipple Controversy
1997 Vintage: The L.A. Confidential Class
Why the buzz? Because it proved that you could make a noir film so sophisticated that people would forget it was 1997 and actually believe… Read More »1997 Vintage: The L.A. Confidential Class
1997 Archive: Tony Blair’s “Cool Britannia”
Why was the UK so trendy? Because the Prime Minister invited Oasis to 10 Downing Street, finally making “government” look like a Britpop after-party. Part… Read More »1997 Archive: Tony Blair’s “Cool Britannia”
1995 Vintage: The Pentium Chip Scandal
Why was the military worried about a math error? Because the Pentium floating-point bug meant that a computer might calculate a missile trajectory slightly incorrectly—which… Read More »1995 Vintage: The Pentium Chip Scandal
1995 Archive: The Bulletin Board System (BBS)
I’m talking to three people in my local area code through my computer, and I feel like I’m living in Star Trek. Part of the 60… Read More »1995 Archive: The Bulletin Board System (BBS)
1995 Vintage: The 1-800-COLLECT
We spend millions on commercials just to teach people how to avoid paying for a long-distance phone call. Part of the 60 Observational One-Liners: The… Read More »1995 Vintage: The 1-800-COLLECT